It has been just a week since the Seattle Seahawks beat the New England Patriots to win Super Bowl LX. Immediately after which, Seahawks OC Klint Kubiak was named the Raiders next head coach.
The move had been expected in the week leading up to the Super Bowl and with that came the expectation that he would bring over several other Seahawks assistants to join him in Las Vegas. Sunday, he landed perhaps the most significant of those assistants in terms of how the Seahawks went about winning the title — the rushing attack.
Obviously, Kubiak was the architect of that offense, but it was run game coordinator Rick Dennison who gets credit for what the Seahawks were able to do to the Patriots on the ground.
The #Raiders are expected to hire #Seahawks run game coordinator and senior offensive advisor Rick Dennison, sources tell @CBSSports.
Dennison has 30 years of NFL coaching experience, including as an offensive coordinator with the Bills, Broncos and Texans. pic.twitter.com/p8Zy0ezEGU
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) February 17, 2026
The Seahawks run game had the Patriots defense out of sorts all game long and running back Kenneth Walker II gouged the New England defense all game long.
The 67-year-old Dennison’s ties to Klint Kubiak go back to his father with whom he coached with as far back as 1995. That relationship led to Dennison working with Klint at four different spots, including with the Saints in 2024 and Seahawks in 2025. Clearly he was in Seattle because of Kubiak, so his move to Las Vegas was for the same reason.
Kubiak had already lured QB coach Andrew Janocko as his OC. Now he gets another key member of that Seahawks staff as well.
This article originally appeared on Raiders Wire: Raiders reel in coach who was key component in Seahawks Super Bowl win
