{"id":760417,"date":"2026-02-18T14:00:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760417\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T14:00:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T14:00:37","slug":"niu-coach-thomas-hammock-leaving-huskies-amid-mountain-west-transition-to-join-seahawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/760417\/","title":{"rendered":"NIU coach Thomas Hammock leaving Huskies amid Mountain West transition to join Seahawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Northern Illinois<\/a> coach Thomas Hammock is leaving the Huskies to join the Seattle Seahawks as an assistant, sources confirmed to CBS Sports. Hammock becomes the latest FBS head coach coach to depart his role in the ever-changing landscape of college football<\/a> for a job in the NFL<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The move comes at an awkward time for the program as Northern Illinois is in the midst of a move from the MAC to the Mountain West, where its set to begin its first season as a member.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Hammock has served as Huskies head coach since 2019. While Northern Illinois is coming off a 3-9 finish in 2025, Hammock has led the team to winning records three of the last five years.<\/p>\n

His top win at NIU was an upset of No. 5 ranked Notre Dame<\/a> in September 2024. Hammock also guided the Huskies to a MAC championship in 2021.<\/p>\n

Before Northern Illinois, Hammock spent five seasons in the NFL as a running backs coach with the Baltimore Ravens.<\/p>\n

CBS Sports will have more on this story shortly.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Imagn Images Northern Illinois coach Thomas Hammock is leaving the Huskies to join the Seattle Seahawks as an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":760418,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[331,75681,7,49,48,6,108601,21182,78831,108602],"class_list":["post-760417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-college-football","tag-college-football-coaching-carousel","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football","tag-nfl","tag-northern-illinois-football","tag-northern-illinois-huskies","tag-thomas-hammock","tag-thomas-hammock-leaves-northern-illinois"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116091999174081494","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760417","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=760417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760417\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/760418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=760417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=760417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=760417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}