Sources – Pete Carroll agrees to 3-year contract to coach Raiders

Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders have reached agreement on a three-year contract with a fourth-year team option to become the team’s new head coach, sources tell ESPN’s Adam Schefter.

Carroll, 73, is one of four head coaches to have led teams to both a college football national championship and the Super Bowl. The others are Barry Switzer, Jimmy Johnson and Jim Harbaugh.

Carroll helped make USC a national champion, then went to Seattle and, over the course of 14 seasons, led the Seahawks to 10 playoff appearances, two conference championships and the franchise’s only Super Bowl victory.

The Raiders fired Antonio Pierce after his first full season as head coach on January 7 after the team went 4-13.

Carroll will be the Raiders’ fifth head coach since moving from Oakland to Las Vegas in 2020 and the ninth since Mark Davis took over as owner upon the death of his father, Al Davis, in 2011 .

Pierce, 46, was initially promoted from linebackers coach to interim head coach when Davis fired Josh McDaniels and general manager Dave Ziegler after less than two full seasons on Halloween night in 2023.

Carroll is the winningest coach in Seahawks history, with a 137-89-1 record and 10 playoff victories. Including his head coaching stints with the New York Jets and New England Patriots, his career record is 181-131-1.

The Seahawks marked Carroll’s third tenure — and by far his most successful — as an NFL coach. He lasted one season with the Jets, who went 6-10 in 1994, and was fired by the Patriots after three seasons, going 27-21 with two playoff appearances. After spending the 2000 season away from football and reshaping his coaching philosophy, Carroll was hired by USC, beginning a dominant nine-year run that included seven consecutive Pac-10 titles and two national championships.

The Seahawks lured him away from USC in 2010 with the promise of final say in personnel moves, something he hadn’t had in either of his previous two head coaching stops.