Pete Carroll will turn 74 in September when he embarks on his first season as head coach of the Raiders.

The AFC West underwent a dramatic shakeup on Friday with the arrival of Pete Carroll as Las Vegas Raiders head coach – rekindling his longstanding rivalry with Los Angeles Chargers head coach Jim Harbaugh in the process.

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Which means the Super Bowl champion Carroll is now the oldest head coach in the league by far. The San Francisco native will turn 74 in September when the 2025 NFL season begins. The next-oldest coach, Andy Reid, will turn 67 in March — assuming he returns to the Chiefs for another year.

The four AFC West head coaches—Andy Reid, Jim Harbaugh, Sean Payton, and Pete Carroll—now have a combined 20 Conference Championship appearances and nine Super Bowl appearances. https://t.co/t0myQXaeI6

The Raiders' new head coach has found success over the years against these other in-division coaches, with a career total 10 wins against Reid, Payton and Harbaugh. This includes an NFC Championship victory over Harbaugh's San Francisco 49ers in the 2013 season.

Pete Carroll has a youthful energy that many people half his age don't possess, and the Raiders hope that enthusiasm — and, more importantly, his proven track record — translates to Las Vegas. It's a gamble in a city that knows something about that subject on someone who will turn 74 in September,

On Friday, the Las Vegas Raiders agreed to terms with Pete Carroll, per ESPN's Adam Schefter. He will be the team's sixth full-time head coach since

The culture king is back in the NFL. And, oh boy, does he have his work cut out for him. Arguably no NFL head coach has done a better job in the past couple of decades of creating a culture, a vibe, an attitude in and round his team than what Pete Carroll created during his 14 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks.

Pete Carroll, whose storied football career is rooted in Stockton, is headed back to an NFL sideline with the Raiders.

It's out with the old and in with the new in Las Vegas, but the new happens to be pretty old. The Raiders reportedly agreed to hire Pete Carroll as their head coach on Friday, bringing the Super Bowl-winning coach back to the NFL a year after he was surprisingly ousted by the Seahawks.