Former Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks head Pete Carroll agreed to become the next head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders on Friday, according to CBS Sports NFL insider Jonathan Jones. Carroll will sign a three-year contract with a fourth-year team option with the Raiders, ESPN reports.
Carroll, who turns 74 on September 15, spent the 2024 season as an advisor with the Seahawks after resigning after 14 seasons as the team’s head coach from 2010 to 2023. Carroll will be the longest-tenured coach -head of NFL history when he leads Las Vegas at the age of 74 in 2025.
Before being replaced by Mike MacDonald in 2024, Carroll led the Seahawks to 10 playoff appearances in 14 seasons, including the franchise’s only Super Bowl victory in the 2013 season against the Denver Broncos. He led Seattle to back-to-back Super Bowl appearances in 2013 and 2014, but lost the second of two Super Bowls to current minority owner Tom Brady and the New England Patriots when quarterback Russell Wilson threw a goal-line interception.
The Seahawks’ 137-89-1 record under Carroll from 2010 to 2013 was the sixth-best in the NFL in that span, and Carroll’s 137 wins are the most by a head coach in Seattle history. With the Raiders looking to end their three-year playoff drought, Las Vegas brings a historic winner to Carroll: He is one of three head coaches to win both a college football national title and a Super Bowl as head coach with Pro with Pro Football Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer.
Carroll will now compete in an AFC West division loaded with high-level coaching, as he faces Andy Reid’s Kansas City Chiefs, Jim Harbaugh’s Los Angeles Chargers and Sean Payton’s Denver Broncos. The AFC West was one of two divisions to send three teams to the playoffs in 2024 along with the NFC North. Carroll will certainly have his hands fully complementing a team still looking for its next franchise quarterback. In 2024, the Raiders used three different starting quarterbacks (Aidan O’Connell, Gardner Minshew and Desmond Ridder), and none of them threw 10 touchdowns or won more than three games.
Las Vegas has at least one No. 1 pick option in the passing game in tight end Brock Bowers. He set the 2024 NFL rookie receptions record with 112, a number that also broke the Raiders’ single-season catches record. Bowers is the only rookie to hold his current team’s franchise record for catches in a season, according to CBS Sports Research.
Las Vegas has plenty of resources to reshape their roster in Carroll’s image. The Raiders have $184.3 million currently tied to their active roster for 2025, which is the lowest in the NFL. That’s why they will have the second most efficient cap space in the 2025 offseason ($85.8 million, per overthecap.com), the NFL’s most efficient cap space in the 2026 offseason ($157.97 million, per overthecap.com) and the 2026 Fourth-most effective cap space in the NFL during the 2027 offseason ($230.45 million, per overthecap.com).
The Raiders also have an additional third-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, thanks to the trade of Davante Adams to the New York Jets, in addition to already owning the sixth overall pick in the draft due to their 4-13 record in 2024.
It’s time for the rebuild to begin now that Brady’s Bunch has both its head coach in Carroll and general manager John Spytek in the building.
