Former Seattle Seahawks Super Bowl champion head coach 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 be signing a three-year contract with a fourth-year team option with the Raiders, ESPN reports. 

Carroll, who turns 74 on Sept. 15, spent the 2024 season as an advisor with the Seahawks after stepping down following 14 seasons as the team’s head coach from 2010-2023. Carroll will be the oldest head coach in 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 postseason appearances in 14 seasons including the franchise’s only Super Bowl victory in the 2013 season over the Denver Broncos. He led Seattle to back-to-back Super Bowl appearances in 2013 and 2014, but he lost the second of the two Super Bowls to current Raiders 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 2010-2013 was the sixth best in the NFL in that span, and Carroll’s 137 wins rank as the most by a head coach in Seattle history. With the Raiders looking to halt their three-year postseason drought, Las Vegas is bringing on a historic winner in Carroll: He is one of three head coaches to win both a college football national title and a Super Bowl as a head coach along with Pro Football Hall of Famer Jimmy Johnson and Barry Switzer. 

Carroll will now compete in an AFC West division loaded with top tier coaching as he will face 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 postseason in 2024 along with the NFC North. Carroll will certainly have his hands full rebuilding a squad still in search of 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 does at least have a go-to, No. 1 option in the passing game in tight end Brock Bowers. He set the NFL rookie receptions record in 2024 with 112, a figure 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, per CBS Sports Research. 

Las Vegas does have plenty of resources to reshape their roster in Carroll’s image. The Raiders have $184.3 million currently tied up in their active roster for 2025, which is the lowest in the NFL. That’s why they’ll have the second-most effective cap space in the 2025 offseason ($85.8 million, per OverTheCap.com), the most effective cap space in the NFL in the 2026 offseason ($157.97 million, per OverTheCap.com) and the fourth-most effective cap space in the NFL in the 2027 offseason ($230.45 million, per OverTheCap.com). 

The Raiders also have an extra third-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, thanks to the trade of Davante Adams to the New York Jets, on top of already possessing the draft’s sixth overall pick due to their 4-13 record in 2024. 

Time for the rebuild to commence now that Brady’s bunch has both its head coach in Carroll and general manager John Spytek in the building.