Pete Carroll is adding two names to his first coaching staff with the Raiders.
His son, Brennan Carroll, is leaving his post as the offensive coordinator at Washington to be his father’s new offensive line coach and run-game coordinator. The two Carrolls previously worked together at USC. Brennan Carroll was a graduate assistant for his father for two seasons from 2002-03, then served as the Trojans tight ends coach from 2004-09.
Greg Olson, who has twice been the Raiders offensive coordinator and was Pete Carroll’s quarterbacks coach in Seattle in 2023, is returning to Las Vegas as the club’s quarterbacks coach.
Brennan Carroll, after spending one season on his father’s Seahawks staff in 2010, went to Miami where he was the Hurricanes tight ends coach for two years and their wide receivers coach for two more. He went back to Seattle in 2015 and served as the team’s assistant offensive line coach and run-game coordinator until 2020.
Brennan Carroll spent the past four seasons working as coach Jedd Fisch’s offensive coordinator at both Arizona (2021-23) and Washington (2024). Arizona ranked 18th nationally in scoring offense in Carroll’s last season with the program.
Brennan Carroll joins the Raiders one day after the team hired offensive coordinator Chip Kelly and made him the NFL’s highest paid assistant with a contract that averages $6 million per year. Kelly spent last season as Ohio State’s offensive coordinator and helped the Buckeyes win the College Football Playoff national championship.
A key part of the younger Carroll’s job will be helping Kelly revive the Raiders’ running game. The team ranked last in the NFL in rushing yards last season (1,357). The Raiders were also tied for 29th in the league in points (309).
Olson was the Raiders offensive coordinator from 2013-14 and from 2018-21. He helped the team reach the playoffs in 2021.
Olson, who has coached in the NFL for more than two decades, has also been an offensive coordinator with the Rams (2006-07), the Buccaneers (2009-11) and the Jaguars (2015-16).
He, along with Carroll, Kelly, general manager John Spytek and minority owner Tom Brady, will try to help the Raiders identify a long-term answer at the quarterback position.
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