The Las Vegas Raiders are hiring Carroll, the former Super Bowl-winning coach of the Seattle Seahawks, as their coach, a person with knowledge of the deliberations confirmed Friday.
The Raiders agreed to a deal to make Pete Carroll their next head coach on Friday, ESPN's Adam Schefter reported, bringing the former Seahawks coach back to the NFL a year after his surprising exit from Seattle.
The Las Vegas Raiders are reportedly close to hiring their next head coach, as the team is in negotiations with former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll, although the deal isn't done yet.
Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers quarterback Tom Brady has his hands heavily involved in the Las Vegas Raiders rebuild and he along with new head coach Pete Carroll see eye-to-eye on the franchise's quarterback needs.
Pete Carroll, 73, will return to the sideline with the Las Vegas Raiders after leading the Seattle Seahawks to two NFC titles and the franchise’s only Super Bowl win during a 14-year stretch.
The Las Vegas Raiders are hiring Pete Carroll to be the team’s head coach, according to reports. ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero first reported the news. CNN has reached out to the Raiders for comment.
Carroll will be 74 this fall, becoming the oldest head coach in NFL history 12 months after Seattle fired then paid him.
Carroll enters his 31st season in the NFL, most recently spending 14 seasons as the Executive V.P. and Head Coach of the Seattle Seahawks.
And then, not long afterward, the 2025 offseason will get underway with what could be a big wave of big-name activity at the position. Several high-profile starters are on track to become free agents in March,
The Raiders owner expects that Carroll and Spytek will be the right fits for their jobs — and will be with the team for the duration.
Raiders majority owner Mark Davis introduced Carroll as the 24th coach in his franchise’s history, and its fifth since it moved to Las Vegas in 2020, Monday morning at the team’s Henderson headquarters.