
Chip Kelly is back in the NFL.
Kelly has been hired by the Las Vegas Raiders to be their offensive coordinator under new head coach Pete Carroll, according to ESPN’s Adam Schefter and Pete Thamel.
Kelly has been out of the NFL for the last 8 years after the San Francisco 49ers fired him as head coach after the 2016 season. This will be his first coordinator job in the NFL, as he only has held head coaching positions in the NFL — three with the Philadelphia Eagles and one with the San Francisco 49ers.
After his four year stint in the NFL, Kelly, 61, was the head coach at UCLA and the offensive coordinator at Ohio State this past season. He rose back to prominence this past season after leading the Buckeyes to their first national championship since 2016.
A head coach at Oregon for four years before being lured by the NFL by the Eagles in 2013, Kelly went 46-7 at Oregon before bringing his innovative offense into the NFL. He took the Eagles into the playoffs in his first year as a head coach, but never returned in the two years since or his one year with the 49ers.
Kelly went 28-35 in four seasons as a head coach in the NFL, having a top-five offense in points and yards per game twice (2013 and 2014 with the Eagles).