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2026 NFL Offensive/Defensive Coordinator Search Tracker

By | at February 15, 2026 10:15 pm

The 2026 head coaching carousel has now seen 10 jobs open since the start of the offseason, as the Bills have fired Sean McDermott. HC firings generally lead to coordinator changes, and several other teams have proceeded with OC or DC moves to start their offseasons. Here are the current OC and DC searches transpiring. As the remaining HC searches conclude, more coordinator searches will be added to this list.

Updated 2-23-26 (10:40pm CT)

Offensive Coordinators

Arizona Cardinals (Out: Drew Petzing)

  • Nathaniel Hackett, quarterbacks coach (Dolphins): Hired

Atlanta Falcons (Out: Zac Robinson)

Baltimore Ravens (Out: Todd Monken)

Buffalo Bills (Out: Joe Brady)

  • Pete Carmichael Jr., senior offensive assistant (Broncos): Hire expected

Chicago Bears (Out: Declan Doyle)

Cleveland Browns (Out: Tommy Rees)

Denver Broncos (Out: Joe Lombardi)

  • Ronald Curry, quarterbacks coach (Bills): Interviewed
  • Brian Johnson, pass-game coordinator (Commanders): Interviewed
  • Davis Webb, quarterbacks coach (Broncos): Promoted

Detroit Lions (Out: John Morton)

Kansas City Chiefs (Out: Matt Nagy)

  • Eric Bieniemy, running backs coach (Bears): Rehired

Las Vegas Raiders (Out: Greg Olson)

  • Andrew Janocko, quarterbacks coach (Seahawks): Hired
  • Frisman Jackson, wide receivers coach (Seahawks): To interview

Los Angeles Chargers (Out: Greg Roman)

Los Angeles Rams (Out: Mike LaFleur)

  • Dave Ragone, quarterbacks coach (Rams): Title enhanced
  • Nate Scheelhaase, pass-game coordinator (Rams): Promoted

Miami Dolphins (Out: Frank Smith)

New York Giants (Out: Mike Kafka)

New York Jets (Out: Tanner Engstrand)

Philadelphia Eagles (Out: Kevin Patullo)

Pittsburgh Steelers (Out: Arthur Smith)

Seattle Seahawks (Out: Klint Kubiak)

Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Out: Josh Grizzard)

Tennessee Titans (Out: Nick Holz)

Washington Commanders (Out: Kliff Kingsbury)

Defensive Coordinators

Arizona Cardinals

Baltimore Ravens (Out: Zach Orr)

Buffalo Bills (Out: Bobby Babich)

  • Jim Leonhard, defensive backs coach (Broncos): Hired

Cleveland Browns (Out: Jim Schwartz)

Dallas Cowboys (Out: Matt Eberflus)

Green Bay Packers (Out: Jeff Hafley)

Las Vegas Raiders (Out: Patrick Graham)

Los Angeles Chargers (Out: Jesse Minter)

Miami Dolphins (Out: Anthony Weaver)

  • Sean Duggan, former linebackers coach (Packers): Hired
  • Clint Hurtt, defensive line coach (Eagles): Interviewed

New England Patriots (Out: Terrell Williams)

New York Giants (Out: Shane Bowen)

New York Jets (Out: Steve Wilks)

Pittsburgh Steelers (Out: Teryl Austin)

San Francisco 49ers (Out: Robert Saleh)

  • Gus Bradley, assistant head coach (49ers): Interviewed
  • Raheem Morris, former head coach (Falcons): Hired
  • Jim Schwartz, defensive coordinator (Browns): Rumored candidate
  • Joe Woods, defensive backs coach (Raiders): Interviewed

Tennessee Titans (Out: Dennard Wilson)

Washington Commanders (Out: Joe Whitt)

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Giants Finalize Coaching Staff Under Harbaugh

By | at February 15, 2026 9:16 pm

Teams around the NFL have been announcing their finalized coaching staffs for the 2026 football season, and the Giants joined the fray on Friday. We had already reported on several of the changes to new head coach John Harbaugh‘s staff, but there were a few new updates to be gleaned from the team’s announcement.

First, before the team’s announcement, Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports reported that former Titans linebackers coach Frank Bush would be joining the Giants as their new inside linebackers coach. Bush is very familiar with new Giants defensive coordinator Dennard Wilson. Bush served as Wilson’s linebackers coach for the past two years in Tennessee. Per Dan Duggan of The Athletic, he also serves double duty as a mentor to Wilson.

Also, while Friday’s announcement was technically finalizing the team’s coaching staff, they will already be potentially looking to replace an assistant position coach. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, recently named assistant defensive line coach Matt Robinson will be heading to Las Vegas to join new Raiders defensive coordinator Rob Leonard‘s staff.

Formerly, the Ravens outside linebackers coach, Robinson initially followed Harbaugh from Baltimore but will now join the Raiders as their new secondary coach. He will be reuniting with Leonard now, who worked alongside Robinson as outside linebackers coach for a year in Baltimore. Per Schefter, the Giants gave their permission for Robinson to leave and supported him in doing so.

The only other update concerning a position coach has to do with Willie Taggart. When it was first announced that he was joining New York’s staff, it was unclear what role the former Ravens running backs coach would hold as he was still a potential candidate to be offensive coordinator for the Giants. Ultimately, he will retain the title he had held in Baltimore with his new team.

The offense and defense both saw additions of assistant roles in the announcement. On offense, Noah Riley was named football analyst/quality control and Adam Schrack and Mike Snyder were both named offensive quality control. On defense, Brendan Clark was named defensive quality control. Riley, Schrack, and Clark all come over from Baltimore, where they most recently filled roles as defensive football analyst, offensive quality control, and defensive quality control, respectively. Snyder was most recently an offensive assistant for two years with the Texans and has experience with the Falcons and Bears, as well.

Lastly, the announcement showed the addition of T.J. Weist as assistant special teams coach and Megan Rosburg as assistant to the head coach/defensive assistant. Weist most recently spent five years assisting the Ravens with special teams but wasn’t retained with the team after the 2023 season. Rosburg, the daughter of former longtime Ravens special teams coordinator Jerry Rosburg, will carry over a role similar to the one she held for the last four years in Baltimore.

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Raiders To Conduct OC Interview With Andrew Janocko

By | at February 15, 2026 4:08 pm

Once the Raiders hired Klint Kubiak as their new head coach, attention turned to the possibility of other Seahawks staffers following him to Seattle. Andrew Janocko is among them.

Not long after Kubiak’s hire, Janocko was identified as the favorite for Vegas’ offensive coordinator position. As Kubiak and the Raiders evaluate their OC options, Janocko will – to no surprise – receive a look. An interview has been arranged for today in Vegas, ESPN’s Adam Schefter reports.

Janocko and Kubiak worked together in Minnesota and New Orleans prior to their joint Seattle stint during the 2025 season. A hire on this front would certainly not come as a shock as a result. Of course, the potential for an OC position with the Seahawks loomed as well in this case. With that having changed earlier this afternoon, though, a hire with the Raiders would be expected by many. Per Schefter, Janocko is indeed now in line to be hired as Vegas’ OC.

The Seahawks were thought to prefer an internal promotion to fill the OC vacancy. Janocko was one of four in-house staffers who interviewed for the position recently, and he presumably remained in the running until today. Seattle also spoke with Jake Peetz, Justin Outten and Mack Brown as internal candidates before reaching an agreement with Brian Fleury.

The Raiders’ approach on offense will be a major storyline around the league. Improvements in many areas will be needed as the team seeks to rebound from a 3-14 campaign in 2025. That is widely presumed to include the addition of quarterback Fernando Mendoza with the first overall pick in April’s draft. Kubiak himself will obviously be a central figure in Vegas’ efforts to take needed steps forward on offense, but his OC hire will be critical as well. Particularly if a familiar face in the form of Janocko is brought in, expectations could be raised in relatively short order.

Kubiak has been busy on several fronts within the first few days of his initial head coaching opportunity. The Raiders already have their DC (Rob Leonard) and special teams coordinator (Joe DeCamillis) in place. Bringing in Janocko would/will fill another notable vacancy on the sidelines.

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Raiders To Hire Joe DeCamillis As STC

By | at February 15, 2026 8:19 am

After three years coaching in college, longtime NFL special teams coordinator Joe DeCamillis is returning to the pros. The Raiders are expected to hire DeCamillis as their special teams coordinator, Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports reports.

The 60-year-old DeCamillis spent the last two seasons at South Carolina as its associate head coach/ST coordinator. He was a special assistant at Texas in 2023. Before that, DeCamillis racked up 34 years’ experience in the NFL.

DeCamillis’ career began in 1991 as Denver’s assistant special teams coach. He went on to run ST units for the Giants, Falcons, Jaguars, Cowboys, Bears, Broncos, Jaguars and Rams over the next three decades. A two-time Super Bowl champion, DeCamillis won a ring with the Broncos in 2015 and the Rams in 2021.

During his second stint in Denver from 2015-16, DeCamilis worked for head coach Gary Kubiak. He’ll now serve under Kubiak’s son, new Raiders head coach Klint Kubiak, in Las Vegas. Once official, DeCamillis will be the second coordinator hire for the 38-year-old Kubiak, who promoted defensive line coach Rob Leonard to DC on Saturday.

DeCamilis will take over a special teams unit that struggled mightily and went through an in-season coaching change in 2025. With the Raiders off to a 2-7 start in early November, former head coach Pete Carroll fired ST coordinator Tom McMahon. Assistant Derius Swinton II, who’s now with the Steelers, took the reins for the rest of the year. Pro Football Focus ranked the Raiders’ special teams a woeful 31st in the league. Kubiak will expect better results from the DeCamillis-led group in 2026.

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Raiders Promoting Rob Leonard To DC

By | at February 14, 2026 10:44 pm

After interviewing a few candidates for the defensive coordinator position under new head coach Klint Kubiak, the Raiders have opted to go with an internal candidate. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, run game coordinator/defensive line coach Rob Leonard is set to be promoted to coordinator in Las Vegas.

A former college linebacker who led NC State in tackles in 2008, Leonard immediately turned to coaching out of college, starting as a defensive assistant at nearby Cardinal Gibbons HS (N.C.). With a year of experience under his belt, he rejoined his alma mater, spending three years as a graduate assistant with the Wolfpack before making the jump to the NFL in 2013. Leonard made his NFL coaching debut with the Giants, spending four years as a defensive assistant before getting promoted to assistant defensive line coach in 2017 under then-defensive line coach Patrick Graham.

He moved into the assistant linebackers coaching role the next year, taking over oversight of New York’s outside linebackers, including standout Olivier Vernon. In 2019, he reunited with Graham in Miami as the Dolphins linebackers coach, his first full position coaching role. He moved back to assistant defensive line coach in 2020 before being named outside linebackers coach the following year. In that final season with the Dolphins, Leonard coached a rookie Jaelan Phillips to an 8.5-sack campaign. In 2022, Leonard found his way to Baltimore, joining Mike Macdonald‘s first staff as defensive coordinator for the Ravens, where he helped a veteran Justin Houston to a resurgent 9.5-sack season at 33 years old.

It was at that point that Leonard made his way to Las Vegas, once again reuniting with Graham, the team’s defensive coordinator at the time. As the Raiders’ new defensive line coach in 2023, Leonard took over the tutelage of star defensive end Maxx Crosby, helping him to earn his second straight first-team All-Pro honors while recording career highs in sacks (14.5) and tackles for loss (23). It was also the first year Crosby seemed to have any help across the line as defensive end Malcolm Koonce (8.0) and defensive tackle Adam Butler (5.0) contributed to a team total of 46 sacks, the team’s highest sack total since 2010.

Despite some contract turbulence and injury issues for Crosby, Leonard has been an agent of continuity for the star pass rusher in Las Vegas. There’s a chance that owner Mark Davis and general manager John Spytek may be leaning on the scale a bit to influence Leonard’s promotion in hopes of increasing their odds of retaining Crosby moving forward. Leonard’s résumé speaks for itself, though, with multiple stops showing results with players young and old alike.

In fact, when Pete Carroll was named head coach in Vegas last year, he interviewed Leonard for the DC job before ultimately opting to retain Graham. With Graham now in Pittsburgh, it’s Leonard’s turn to lead the Raiders defense. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, several NFL and college teams made requests to interview Leonard over the past two years, but the Raiders did everything in their power to keep him in the building as “they believed they had a future star” in Leonard.

Though several names had been mentioned as defensive coordinator candidates to succeed Graham, only three interviews had been scheduled. In the end, continuity will remain key for a defense that finished 14th in 2025 giving up the 14th-fewest passing yards and the 17th-fewest rushing yards as it looks like Leonard will be promoted to defensive coordinator, pending a finalized deal. According to Jeremy Fowler of ESPN, that continuity will continue with defensive pass-game coordinator Joe Woods being retained in his current role. Woods had been a rumored candidate for the DC position, as well.

Here’s a final look at how the Raiders’ search for their next defensive coordinator played out:

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Raiders Schedule DC Interview For Packers’ DeMarcus Covington

By | at February 14, 2026 1:54 pm

The Raiders continue to expand their board of defensive coordinator candidates for new head coach Klint Kubiak. Interviews were announced on Thursday and Friday, and the trend continues as Ian Rapoport of NFL Network reported this morning that Packers defensive line coach/run game coordinator DeMarcus Covington will interview for the position.

Despite his short tenure as a one-year defensive coordinator for the Patriots in 2024, Covington remains a popular candidate for open jobs. He first started getting coordinator interest in 2023, when after seven years with the Patriots, the Chargers brought him in for an interview and the Cardinals requested one. Seeing interest in his defensive line coach increasing, an incoming new coach, Jerod Mayo, promoted Covington to defensive coordinator, making him the successor to Matt Patricia after the team went six years without a coach manning the traditional DC role.

He’s already interviewed this offseason with the Cowboys and Jets, and even after his dismissal from New England last year, the Bengals brought him in for an interview before landing on Al Golden. In his first NFL season outside of New England, Covington landed with the Packers in his current role. In his first year in Green Bay, Covington assisted with a defense that finished the season just above average in most categories. His defensive line showed both sides of the spectrum, as the best aspect of the Packers defense was their ability to pressure the quarterback — sixth in the NFL with 162 total pressures — and the worst aspect was their ability to stop the run — 18th in rush yards allowed.

Kubiak has hit the ground running in Las Vegas after brushing the Seattle confetti off his shoulders. Several candidates for defensive coordinator have been rumored as he starts to build competition for the position, but Covington will be just the third to interview. Rams defensive pass-game coordinator Aubrey Pleasant was scheduled to interview yesterday, while Seahawks safeties coach Jeff Howard is said to be interviewing today with his former coworker.

Here’s how the rest of the DC candidate list for the Raiders is shaping up:

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Former Ravens DC Zach Orr Reunites With Mike Macdonald In Seattle

By | at February 13, 2026 10:20 pm

A pair of former Ravens staffers landed in Seattle today, reuniting them with former defensive coordinator and current Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald. For the second time in a row, Baltimore will watch their former defensive coordinator join the Seahawks as Macdonald is hiring Zach Orr to serve as inside linebackers coach in Seattle, per Clarence Hill Jr. of All City DLLS.

Orr’s history in Baltimore was a complicated one. An undrafted linebacker out of North Texas, Orr started as a player for the Ravens, spending his first two years as a core special teamer before stepping in as a starter in Year 3, leading the team with 133 total tackles, and earning second-team All-Pro honors alongside fellow starter C.J. Mosley. His All-Pro season ended with an injury that led to a congenital neck/spine condition diagnosis that would force him to retire from playing.

Orr immediately turned to coaching after coming to terms with the end of his playing career. In 2017, the Ravens hired him as a defensive analyst 12 days after he settled into retirement. Orr left in 2021 for an outside linebackers coaching position under Urban Meyer in Jacksonville, and when that didn’t work out, he returned to Baltimore as an inside linebackers coach for two years before succeeding Macdonald as defensive coordinator.

Orr’s defenses in Baltimore were streaky. In his first year as a coordinator, the Ravens defense ranked 25th in points allowed, 27th in yards allowed, and dead last in passing yards allowed through 10 weeks of play. Taking another look at his personnel, Orr made some adjustments and, with some key contributors stepping up, Baltimore fielded the NFL’s best defense across all three of those categories for the last six weeks of the season. The improvement was enough to see them finish the year ranked as the ninth-best scoring defense and the 10th-best total defense.

Similar struggles plagued the Ravens defense in 2025, but unlike in Orr’s first year, there was no major turnaround. While the team found some footing partway into the year, that footing was inconsistent as they finished the season ranked 18th in points allowed and 24th in yards allowed. The 30th-ranked pass defense was an especially offensive black eye for a secondary that rostered All-Pros in Kyle Hamilton and Marlon Humphrey alongside recent first-round picks Nate Wiggins and Malaki Starks.

After the Ravens fired former head coach John Harbaugh, Orr interviewed for defensive coordinator jobs with the Chargers and Cowboys. Though they didn’t off him the DC job, the Cowboys kept in contact with Orr enough that he had an offer to fill the same inside linebackers coaching job in Dallas, per Hill. According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Raiders had also requested to interview Orr for their open DC position, but Orr chose the option to reunite with Macdonald over the job in Dallas or the interview with Las Vegas. Macdonald had wanted to bring Orr as his DC when he first left for the head coaching job in Seattle, but the Ravens prevented that from occurring by promoting Orr themselves. Now, Macdonald gets his man, and Orr gets to continue developing as a coach in his system.

Joining Orr in the move to Seattle will be former Ravens director of strategy/assistant quarterbacks coach Daniel Stern. The Ravens hired someone to fill Stern’s position when it seemed he might follow Todd Monken to Cleveland, but instead, Stern will defect to the team’s former defensive coordinator, according to Schefter.

Lastly, Baltimore finalized their new coaching staff under head coach Jesse Minter yesterday. We have covered nearly every staff change in previous posts on the site, but the Ravens‘ announcement provided a few new details. First, initially thought to be hired as director of football logistics and defensive consultant, respectively, Christina DeRuyter and Rick Minter‘s titles have been reported to be chief of staff to the head coach and football analyst. The team’s announcement also broke news of the promotion of Andrew Rogan to a role as defensive quality control coach. Rogan had joined the team in 2021 as a player personnel assistant and was promoted to coaching/scouting analyst in 2023. He’ll now transfer fully over to the coaching side of the staff.

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Raiders To Interview Seahawks’ Jeff Howard For DC

By | at February 13, 2026 7:24 pm

After interviewing Aubrey Pleasant today, the Raiders will continue the search for their new defensive coordinator tomorrow. According to Tom Pelissero of NFL Network, Las Vegas will interview Seahawks safeties coach Jeff Howard for the position on Saturday.

Following a playing career as a linebacker at Eastern New Mexico, Howard immediately turned to the coaching route, heading over the border into Texas to become the defensive coordinator at Odessa Permian HS (TX) of Friday Night Lights fame. After four years of high school coaching, Howard remained in West Texas after accepting a position as offensive line assistant at Texas Tech. He was quickly moved to the other side of the ball as a defensive quality control coach working with safeties.

Howard made the jump to the NFL two years later, joining the Vikings as assistant to the head coach. He was promoted to defensive assistant in 2014 before being named assistant linebackers coach the next season. He spent his last season in Minnesota in an assistant defensive backs coaching role before heading to Cleveland in 2020 to serve as defensive backs coach/pass game coordinator. After three years with the Browns, Howard joined the Chargers for a year as linebackers coach before being named to Mike Macdonald‘s defensive staff in Seattle as safeties coach.

In two years in Seattle, Howard helped develop a talented safeties room comprised of Coby Bryant, Julian Love, Ty Okada, and rookie roamer Nick Emmanwori. After 13 years of NFL coaching experience, Howard is getting his first opportunity to interview for a coordinator role in the NFL. If he were hired, Howard would be following new head coach Klint Kubiak in the trip from Seattle to Las Vegas. The two also coached together for a year in Minnesota, where Kubiak served as quarterbacks coach before earning his first offensive coordinator opportunity.

Howard will be the team’s second candidate to interview for the position tomorrow, following Pleasant’s meeting today. A number of other candidates have been rumored, though, with more potential interviews expected.

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Raiders Hire Mike McCoy As Assistant Head Coach

By | at February 13, 2026 4:17 pm

The Raiders have hired Mike McCoy as an assistant head coach on Klint Kubiak‘s new staff, per a team announcement.

McCoy, 53, spent the 2025 season with the Titans. He was first hired as a senior offensive assistant and was later named interim head coach after the team fired Brian Callahan. McCoy has spent the last 26 years coaching in the NFL in a variety of offensive roles, including two coordinator stints with the Broncos and one with the Cardinals. McCoy was also the Chargers’ head coach from 2013 to 2016, during which time he compiled a 27-37 record with just one playoff berth.

Kubiak worked under McCoy during his second stint as the Broncos’ offensive coordinator in 2017. The pair will now reunite in Las Vegas, where McCoy will add plenty of experience to the staff of a first-time head coach with only two years of coordinator experience. With experience with several teams including four years in the top job, McCoy will be able to help Kubiak navigate his new job.

McCoy may also have a role working with the Raiders’ quarterbacks, whether it be veteran Geno Smith or potential No. 1 draft pick Fernando Mendoza. A former CFL quarterback himself, McCoy has worked with a variety of quarterbacks in his career as a position coach, offensive coordinator, and head coach. His history with the position is not especially strong, though he rarely worked with a passer that later found success elsewhere.

Philip Rivers led the league in completion percentage and won Comeback Player of the Year in McCoy’s first season in San Diego. He then threw 52 interceptions from 2014 to 2016, the most in the NFL in that span. Something similar happened with Trevor Lawrence while McCoy served as the Jaguars’ quarterbacks coach from 2022 to 2024. After a disappointing showing as a rookie in 2021, Lawrence broke out in 2022 before regressing in his next two seasons.

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Seahawks Blocked Raiders’ Justin Outten Interview Request

By | at February 13, 2026 3:06 pm

The Seahawks could not block offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak from taking the Raiders’ head coaching job, but they are attempting to keep some of his assistants in Seattle.

The Raiders requested to interview Justin Outten – currently the Seahawks’ run game specialist/assistant offensive line coach – for a run game coordinator role in Las Vegas. That would represent a lateral move, so the Seahawks were able to block the interview, per ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Outten is among the Seahawks’ candidates to replace Kubiak, so the team understandably does not want him to leave until they complete their offensive coordinator hiring process. If they go in a different direction, the Seahawks could release Outten to pursue a job in Las Vegas, as the Ravens did with some of their assistants after officially hiring Jesse Minter. However, Seattle seems headed for an internal promotion to fill their OC vacancy, in which case the new hire may want to keep as much of Kubiak’s staff intact as possible.

Seahawks defensive backs coach/pass game specialist Karl Scott is also staying in Seattle, per NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport. He interviewed for the Cardinals’ defensive coordinator vacancy and was among the initial candidates to serve as Kubiak’s DC. The Raiders did not submit an official interview request for Scott, and he has now pre-empted such a meeting with his decision. Scott will likely be in the mix for defensive coordinator jobs next year.

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