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Ex-Tennessee Titans’ Interim head coach Mike McCoy lands job with the Las Vegas Raiders as assistant head coach.
Former Tennessee Titans’ interim head coach Mike McCoy is headed back to the AFC West — this time as a key voice on Klint Kubiak’s first staff with the Las Vegas Raiders. The Raiders are hiring the 53-year-old as assistant head coach, adding an experienced former head coach to help guide a first-time leader and a reshaped locker room in 2026.
Ex-Tennessee Titans Interim Head Coach Mike McCoy Joins Las Vegas Raiders
NFL Network’s Tom Pelissero reported Thursday that the Raiders are hiring McCoy as assistant head coach under Kubiak. McCoy spent last season with the Tennessee Titans, opening the year as senior offensive assistant before taking over as interim head coach in October after the team fired Brian Callahan following a 1-5 start.
The Raiders are hiring Mike McCoy as assistant head coach, per sources.
McCoy, 53, spent four years as the Chargers’ head coach and finished last season as the Titans’ interim coach. An experienced addition to Klint Kubiak’s staff.
McCoy went 2-9 over the Titans’ final 11 games, but his elevation from a support role to interim head coach underscored how the organization viewed his experience and leadership in a turbulent season. The move to Las Vegas now puts that background behind Kubiak, who is taking his first full-time NFL head-coaching job after helping lead the Seattle Seahawks’ offense to a Super Bowl title as offensive coordinator.
McCoy’s Long NFL Resume
McCoy brings more than two decades of NFL coaching experience, including four seasons as head coach of the then-San Diego Chargers from 2013 through 2016. He went 27-37 in that stint but led the Chargers to the playoffs in 2013, winning a Wild Card game behind Philip Rivers before exiting in the Divisional Round.​
Before and after his Chargers’ tenure, McCoy built his reputation as a quarterback-friendly offensive mind. He served as offensive coordinator in Denver from 2009 to 2012, where he was credited with overhauling the Broncos’ scheme around Tim Tebow in 2011 and later working with Peyton Manning in 2012.
McCoy returned to Denver as offensive coordinator in 2017 and spent 2018 as offensive coordinator for the Arizona Cardinals before joining the Jacksonville Jaguars as quarterbacks coach from 2022 through 2024.​
Across 23 NFL seasons, McCoy has held roles with the Carolina Panthers, Broncos, Chargers, Cardinals, Jaguars, and Titans, with an 8-7 mark in the postseason when you include his time on staffs that reached the playoffs. During his career as head coach and offensive coordinator, he’s also worked with multiple award winners, including Manning and Rivers as Comeback Player of the Year recipients and Joey Bosa as AP Defensive Rookie of the Year in 2016.
​Coaching Tree & Fit With Raiders
McCoy arrives in Las Vegas with one of the more interesting coaching trees in the league. He worked for or with established names like George Seifert, John Fox, and Josh McDaniels, and three of his former assistants — Frank Reich, Nick Sirianni, and Shane Steichen — have gone on to become NFL head coaches. ​
Why McCoy Matters for Las Vegas
For a franchise trying to reset after another coaching change, the hire checks a lot of boxes. The Raiders get an assistant who has been in nearly every meeting room possible — position coach, play-caller, interim leader, and full-time head coach — and who just came through a rough Titans season where he had to stabilize the building midstream.
It also fits the organizational priority the Raiders emphasized when they picked Kubiak, choosing people and leadership traits over chasing the latest schematic trend alone.
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