Pete Carroll and the Las Vegas Raiders have reached an agreement on a three-year deal with a fourth-year team option to be the team’s new head coach, sources told 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 shape USC into a national champion, then went to Seattle. Over a run that lasted 14 seasons, he led the Seahawks to 10 playoff appearances, two conference championships and the franchise’s only Super Bowl win.
The Raiders fired Antonio Pierce on Jan. 7 after the team went 4-13 in his first full season as head coach.
Carroll will be the Raiders’ fifth head coach since the team relocated to Las Vegas from Oakland in 2020, and their 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 record of 137-89-1 and 10 playoff victories. Including his head coaching stints with the New York Jets and the New England Patriots, his career record is 181-131-1.
The Seahawks marked Carroll’s third — and by far most successful — tenure as an NFL head coach. He lasted one season with the Jets, who went 6-10 in 1994, and was fired by the Patriots after three seasons, having gone 27-21 with two playoff appearances. After spending the 2000 season out of 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 a pair of national championships.
The Seahawks lured him away from USC in 2010 with the promise of final say in personnel moves, something he didn’t have at either of his two previous head coaching stops.
