{"id":760054,"date":"2026-02-18T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760054\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T10:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T10:00:14","slug":"las-vegas-raiders-news-zach-azzani-hired-as-wide-receivers-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760054\/","title":{"rendered":"Las Vegas Raiders news: Zach Azzani hired as wide receivers coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Let\u2019s get to know Azzanni some more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He was the Steelers\u2019 wide receivers coach under Mike Tomlin for two years, 2024 and 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He is 49 and turns 50 in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Azzanni has been in the NFL for nine seasons, and 2026 will mark a full decade. He spent time with the Chicago Bears (2017), Denver Broncos (2018-2022), and New York Jets (2023), in addition to the last two seasons in Pittsburgh. He was a college coach from 1999 to 2016, working at SEC schools Florida and Tennessee while also spending a year at Wisconsin. He\u2019s primarily been a wide receivers coach throughout his career, with a few short stints as a passing game and offensive coordinator in college.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">They worked together for one year in Devner (2022), when Kubiak was the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach and Azzanni coached the wide receivers under Nathaniel Hackett. The Broncos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pro-football-reference.com\/teams\/den\/2022.htm\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ranked 19th in passing yards<\/a> while Jerry Jeudy was the team\u2019s leading receiver with 67 catches, 972 yards and six touchdowns that year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Why the Raiders are interested:<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">While it was only one season, he does have some familiarity with Kubiak. Azzanni has been coaching wide receivers for roughly a quarter-century and, clearly, Kubiak trusts him to develop wideouts like Jack Bech and Dont\u2019e Thornton Jr. Azzanni also has a decent track record of molding young receivers, working with Courtland Sutton, Jeudy and Tim Patrick in Denver, and Garrett Wilson in New York within the first two years of each of their careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Let\u2019s get to know Azzanni some more. He was the Steelers\u2019 wide receivers coach under Mike Tomlin for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760055,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,86540,4241,6],"class_list":{"0":"post-760054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-coaching-staff","10":"tag-las-vegas-raiders-news","11":"tag-nfl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116091055270098967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760054","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=760054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760054\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}