After winning Super Bowl 60 with the Seattle Seahawks, new Las Vegas Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak is getting a late start to filling out the rest of his coaching staff. However, Kubiak is wasting no time after officially getting hired earlier this week, making one hire and interviewing a couple of candidates for the two coordinator spots.
According to NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero, the Raiders are hiring Mike McCoy as assistant head coach. McCoy and Kubiak worked together in 2017, when the former was the Denver Broncos’ offensive coordinator and the latter was one of the team’s offensive assistants.
McCoy also brings head coaching experience to the first-year head coach’s staff, serving in that role from 2013 to 2016 for the then San Diego Chargers and as the Tennessee Titans’ interim head coach this past season after Brian Callahan was fired in Week 7.
Meanwhile, the Raiders will have a new defensive coordinator for the first time in four years after Patrick Graham left for the same position with the Pittsburgh Steelers. One of Graham’s understudies could end up being his replacement.
Per The 33rd Team’s Ari Meirov, current defensive line coach and defensive run game coordinator Rob Leonard will interview for the defensive coordinator job in Las Vegas. Meirov also notes that Maxx Crosby, who has been the subject of recent trade rumors, thinks very highly of Leonard. The coach has been in Las Vegas since 2023 and added the run game coordinator to his title ahead of this past season.
At offensive coordinator, Kubiak is already leaning on his network. Pelissero also reported that the Raiders are interviewing current Seahawks wide receivers coach Frisman Jackson for the job. The two coaches have only spent this past season working together, though. Jackson has nine seasons of experience as an NFL coach, all as a wide receivers coach, and was in the college ranks from 2008 to 2016. He also had a five-year career as a wideout for the Cleveland Browns.
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