The Seattle Seahawks hired former University of Washington offensive coordinator Jimmie Dougherty as an offensive assistant Friday afternoon. Tom Pelissero was on it first.
Dougherty joins the franchise for his second stint, having served as quarterbacks coach under Pete Carroll during the 2010 season.
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Dougherty left Washington’s OC position on February 17th in somewhat of a surprise move. He spent seven years under head coach Jedd Fisch between the University of Arizona and UW, and the Huskies had the nation’s 17th-best scoring offense in 2025.
He began with Fisch back in 2017 at UCLA as wide receivers coach in 2017 and stayed in the role until 2020, while Fisch spent 2018-2020 in the NFL as an assistant coach with the Los Angeles Rams and New England Patriots. When Fisch took the Arizona head coaching job that year, he hired Dougherty as quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator and has largely kept him in those roles since. Fisch brought him to Washington in 2024 and promoted him to OC after Brennan Carroll, Pete’s son, left the position to become the Las Vegas Raiders offensive line coach under his father.
It’s unclear why Dougherty left the Washington program in February, but they had an in-house hire ready to replace him in former Seahawks quarterback JP Losman. Fisch has been his own offensive play-caller for his entire head coaching career and plans to continue doing so.
The Seahawks hired the Huskies 2023 offensive coordinator, Ryan Grubb, to the same position for the 2024 season. His stint in Seattle lasted just one year as he didn’t move the needle on Seattle’s Geno Smith and DK Metcalf-led offense. Dougherty gets to come in as an assistant without quite as much pressure, yet has the experience to fill in at a position coaching or passing game specialist role in a pinch.
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