{"id":681116,"date":"2026-01-16T06:05:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:05:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681116\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T06:05:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T06:05:19","slug":"raiders-have-interviewed-7-head-coaching-candidates-since-firing-pete-carroll-pro-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/681116\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders have interviewed 7 head coaching candidates since firing Pete Carroll | Pro National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) \u2014 The Las Vegas Raiders have interviewed seven candidates for their coaching vacancy in the two weeks since they <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/carroll-raiders-c44b16de6922ba557f0a5f4ccb4a4417?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">fired Pete Carroll<\/a>, including former head coaches Kevin Stefanski, Vance Joseph and Matt Nagy.<\/p>\n<p>Their most recent interviews were Wednesday with defensive coordinators Jesse Minter of the Los Angeles Chargers and Ejiro Evero of Carolina.<\/p>\n<p>Minter just finished his second season with the Chargers under Jim Harbaugh. He held the same position under Harbaugh for the 2023 national championship Michigan team that had the country&#8217;s top-ranked defense, allowing 247 yards per game. The Chargers were fifth this season, averaging 285.2 yards allowed.<\/p>\n<p>Evero has been with the Panthers the past three seasons. The Panthers were in the middle of the pack this season, allowing 327.2 yards per game.<\/p>\n<p>Stefanski was a two-time AP Coach of the Year with Cleveland. He went 45-56 over six seasons, but twice took 11-win Browns teams to the playoffs. Stefanski is one of the more in-demand candidates, having also interviewed with Atlanta, Baltimore, Miami, the New York Giants and Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders also have interviewed Denver offensive pass game coordinator\/quarterbacks coach Davis Webb and Seattle offensive coordinator Klint Kubiak.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders went 3-14 this season, but they own the <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/as-vegas-raiders-draft-pick-john-spytek-1b0354efcce0f81ea9c9b31c50b26bb9?utm_source=copy&amp;utm_medium=share\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">top pick in the NFL draft<\/a> as well as nearly $90 million in salary cap space, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/overthecap.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">overthecap.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>AP NFL: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/nfl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) \u2014 The Las Vegas Raiders have interviewed seven candidates for their coaching vacancy in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":681117,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[228,227,256,2296,7,6,90336,90337,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-681116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cincinnati-bengals","8":"tag-bengals","9":"tag-cincinnati","10":"tag-cincinnati-bengals","11":"tag-cincinnatibengals","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-pro_national_sports","15":"tag-pronational_sports","16":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115903275014058427","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=681116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/681116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/681117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=681116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=681116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=681116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}