The Seattle Seahawks are hiring San Francisco 49ers tight ends coach Brian Fleury as their next offensive coordinator, ESPN and NFL Network reported Sunday.
The reigning Super Bowl champions had a vacancy to fill when Klint Kubiak departed to become the Las Vegas Raiders’ head coach. In turn, Kubiak hired Seattle quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko as the Raiders’ offensive coordinator, Las Vegas announced on Sunday night.
Fleury changes NFC West allegiances after spending the past seven seasons with the 49ers in varying roles. He became their tight ends coach in 2022 and added the title of run game coordinator this past season. His tight end room in San Francisco starred seven-time Pro Bowler George Kittle.
Fleury’s first NFL job was as a quality control coach for the Buffalo Bills in 2013. He coached linebackers for the Cleveland Browns the next two seasons and worked in analyst roles for the Miami Dolphins 2016-18.
Janocko spent just one season in Seattle on Kubiak’s offensive staff. He also worked under Kubiak as quarterbacks coach of the New Orleans Saints in 2024 and the Minnesota Vikings in 2021. In between, he served as the Chicago Bears’ quarterbacks coach in 2022-23. This will be his first time in a coordinator role.
The Raiders also are hiring Matt Robinson as defensive secondary coach, according to multiple reports on Sunday.
Robinson, 32, was announced on Friday as assistant defensive line coach with the Giants, one of 15 coaches who followed new head coach John Harbaugh from the Baltimore Ravens to New York.
The Giants gave permission, per league rules, for Robinson to make a lateral move to the Raiders, according to reports.
Rob Leonard, officially promoted by Las Vegas on Sunday to defensive coordinator under Kubiak, worked with Robinson in Baltimore in 2022 when Leonard was outside linebackers coach.
Robinson was the Ravens’ outside linebackers coach the past two seasons as well as assistant defensive line coach in 2024. He was on a coaching fellowship with Baltimore in 2021-22 and a defensive quality control coach in 2023 after gaining experience coaching at the college level in 2017-20.
–Field Level Media
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