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Las Vegas welcomed a new face to the head coaching position in 2025 – the oldest coach in NFL history.
Pete Carroll brings 18 years of NFL coaching experience and a Super Bowl title to the Raiders as the team’s third coach in the last three seasons. His first coaching job was with the New York Jets in 1994 but he was fired after a 6-10 campaign.
In the 30 years since that Jets season, Carroll’s had head coaching stops in New England (1997-99) and Seattle (2010-23). He’s up to 17th in NFL history all-time with 171 wins entering tonight’s “Monday Night Football” game against the Los Angeles Chargers.
Carroll’s years of experience puts him in rarified air. Two more victories and he’ll pass Bill Parcells on the all-time list among NFL coaches.
Carroll celebrates his 74th birthday on Sept. 15 as the Raiders host the Chargers in primetime, making him much older than the league average. Here are the oldest active coaches right behind him in age:
Oldest active NFL coaches
All ages are as of Sept. 15, 2025.
1. Pete Carroll, Las Vegas Raiders
Carroll started his coaching career before most of the active NFL coaches were born. He started as a graduate assistant with his alma mater, the University of Pacific, in the 1973 season. It’d be another decade before he made his way to the NFL as a position coach and until 1990 when he’d become a coordinator.
2. Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs
Reid started his coaching career in Philadelphia in 1999. He made it through 14 seasons with the Eagles before parting ways with the franchise and immediately moving to the Kansas City Chiefs. He hasn’t skipped a beat since making that change; he tallied 130 wins in 14 seasons with Philadelphia and 143 through the 2024 season with Kansas City.
Reid’s up to fourth all-time in career wins among NFL coaches with 273 entering the 2025 NFL season. He’ll need a few more seasons to pass Bill Belichick for third at 302.
3. John Harbaugh, Baltimore Ravens
Harbaugh got his start in the NFL under Reid in Philadelphia and the rare change from special teams coordinator to head coach when Baltimore hired him in 2008. Since then, the Ravens have been a top-five team by wins in the NFL.
4. Todd Bowles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers
The former defensive back for the 49ers and Commanders got his break in the NFL as the New York Jets secondary coach in 2000. He had a stop under Reid in Philadelphia, too, before moving to the Arizona Cardinals as the team’s defensive coordinator. That led to his head coaching gig with the Jets from 2015 to 2018. After three years as Tampa Bay’s defensive coordinator, he took over as the head coach for the franchise in 2022.
5. Jim Harbaugh, Los Angeles Chargers
The other Harbaugh brother barely makes it in the top five. Like Bowles, he hasn’t coached that many years in the NFL. He spent 17 years as a college coach and NFL assistant before his first head coaching job in the NFL with the San Francisco 49ers from 2011 to 2014.
Jim went back to college with Michigan for nine years before returning to the NFL in the AFC West with the Chargers.
6. Sean Payton, Denver Broncos
The yougner Harbaugh edges Payton out for the No. 5 spot by just six days. Payton’s NFL coaching career started in Philadelphia before Reid’s arrival in 1999 as the team’s quarterbacks coach. Stints with the New York Giants (2000-02) and Dallas Cowboys (2003-05) preceded his hiring by the New Orleans Saints as head coach in 2006.
With the exception of the 2012 season, Payton spent the next decade and a half with the Saints. He took the 2022 season away from the league before the Broncos traded a pair of draft picks to the Saints for his services starting in 2023. Payton, Carroll and John Harbaugh are all within three wins of each other on the all-time list.
7. Dan Quinn, Washington Commanders
Quinn celebrated his 55th birthday on “Thursday Night Football” in Week 2. He’s the first of the next crop of coaches in their mid-50s. He bounced around as a position coach on defense before getting a cordinator job under Carroll in Seattle in 2013. Two seasons there earned him the head coaching job in Atlanta.
Six years and a Super Bowl appearance later, Quinn was out in Atlanta and back at the coordinator level. He’s now in his second season as the Commanders’ head coach.
8. Mike Tomlin, Pittsburgh Steelers
Tomlin was one of the youngest coaching hires in the league when he took over for the Steelers in 2007. Nearly two decades later and he’s yet to have a losing season with Pittsburgh. Tomlin won a Super Bowl in his second season and reached another before his 40th birthday.
Like Reid, he’s been in a head coaching position long enough to work his way up the all-time wins list. Another season over 0.500 will see him move into the top 10.
9. Aaron Glenn, New York Jets
Glenn’s the first of two first-year head coaches to make this list. The three-time Pro Bowl cornerback got his first NFL coaching position with the Cleveland Browns in 2014. A stop in New Orleans as the defensive backs coach preceded his stint with the Detroit Lions as defensive coordinator that earned him the Jets’ job for 2025.
10. Brian Schottenheimer, Dallas Cowboys
Schottenheimer spent nearly two decades as an assistant or position coach in the NFL prior to 2025. The son of longtime NFL coach Marty Schottenheimer, the Cowboys’ new head coach is in his debut season. He’ll have a long way to go before reaching his father’s mark of 327 games coached and 200 win (eighth-most all-time).