Sources: Seahawks expected to hire 49ers’ Brian Fleury as OC

RENTON, Wash.–The Seattle Seahawks Expected appointment san francisco 49ers Tight ends coach and run game coordinator Brian Fleury is his new offensive coordinator, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Sunday.

The decision represents a pivot for the Super Bowl champion Seahawks, who began their search for Clint Kubiak’s replacement thinking they would likely promote from within.

Instead, they took on a division rival by hiring Fleury, who has spent the last seven seasons with the 49ers. He joined Kyle Shanahan’s staff as a defensive quality-control coach in 2019 and spent the next two seasons (2020–21) as an offensive quality-control coach before being promoted to tight ends coach (2022). Fleury added the title of run game coordinator last season.

Kubiak previously spent a season as Seattle’s offensive coordinator las vegas raiders He was hired as their head coach after the Seahawks won Super Bowl LX last Sunday.

Seahawks coach Mike McDonald interviewed four homegrown candidates for the job. They also included quarterbacks coach Andrew Janko, a longtime Kubiak assistant, whom he is hiring as the Raiders’ non-playcalling OC, sources told Schefter on Sunday.

A source told ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler that other internal candidates the Seahawks interviewed included run game specialist Justin Outten, tight ends coach Mack Brown and passing game coordinator Jake Peetz.

McDonald was seeking continuity of scheme in his next coordinator, and although the coach did not promote from within as he initially thought, quarterback Sam Darnold And the rest of Seattle’s offense shouldn’t be completely revamped starting in 2026. The 49ers run a version of the West Coast offense that Kubiak — who spent the 2023 season in San Francisco — ran in Seattle.

Fleury, a Maryland native, played quarterback for the Terrapins and FCS school Towson. He began his NFL coaching career buffalo bill (Quality Control) in 2013 before serving as cleveland browns‘Assistant linebackers coach in 2014 and his outside linebackers coach in 2015.

He was a football research analyst for miami dolphins in 2016 before spending the next two seasons as the team’s director of football research.