Where Mike Macdonald’s search for Seahawks’ new offensive coordinator stands
Mike Macdonald isn’t kicking back and celebrating his Super Bowl win.
The Seahawks head coach began interviewing in-house candidates the day after the team got back from winning Super Bowl 60 in the Bay Area, one day before the Seahawks’ victory parade through downtown Seattle.
Klint Kubiak came back for that. That was Wednesday. Monday ended the league’s worst-kept secret when the Las Vegas Raiders officially named the Seahawks’ offensive coordinator and play caller this season their new head coach.
Tuesday, the morning after getting back from taping the Jimmy Kimmel Live show in Los Angeles, Macdonald was back in team headquarters beginning interviews for his next OC. League sources have told The News Tribune in-house candidates are Macdonald’s top, preferred choices.
Those internal candidates are 37-year-old quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko, passing game coordinator Jake Peetz, assistant offensive line coach and run game specialist Justin Outten and tight ends coach Mack Brown.
First outside candidate for OC
A fifth candidate, the first from outside the team, emerged Friday. Macdonald will be interviewing Arizona Cardinals pass game specialist Connor Senger for Seattle’s offensive play-calling job. Ian Rapoport of the league-owned NFL Network was first to report that.
Senger is 30 years old, younger than many Seahawks veteran players. He just finished his fourth season with the Cardinals. They hired him in 2022 after he was one of the team’s Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellows for young aspirants. He has Seahawks and Washington state connections.
Before Arizona hired him out of its coaching fellowship, Senger was the offensive coordinator at Central Washington University in Ellensburg for one year.
The two seasons before that, Senger was the offensive quality control coordinator for the 2020 and ‘21 North Dakota State Bison. Two of NDSU’s offensive linemen those seasons: Seahawks starting center Jalen Sundell and starting left guard Grey Zabel.
Senger has also interviewed recently with the Bears and Eagles, but did not get hired for their offensive-coordinator jobs. The Cardinals are said to want to keep him.
Some Seahawks assistant coaches are on one-year contracts that are ending. Some are on multiyear deals. Janocko got a two-year contract with Seattle when he arrived with Kubiak from the Saints 12 months ago to be the quarterbacks coach for Sam Darnold.
Macdonald wants to keep continuity with his position coaches and their players on this Super Bowl-champion team. That’s particularly true with how well Janocko worked with Darnold, veteran backup Drew Lock (who is under contract for 2026) and rookie Jalen Milroe.
Few if any assistants are expected to leave Seattle before next season, other than Kubiak.
Karl Scott is the latest staying.
Rapoport reported that Friday. The defensive backs coach is the only assistant among 22 coaches Macdonald kept from Pete Carroll’s staff when Macdonald got Seattle’s head-coaching job in February 2024. He was drawing recent interest in the Cardinals defensive-coordinator job, among others.
This story was originally published February 13, 2026 at 11:21 AM with the headline "Where Mike Macdonald’s search for Seahawks’ new offensive coordinator stands."
