The Las Vegas Raiders are hiring Pete Carroll to be the team’s head coach, according to reports. ESPN’s Adam Schefter and NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero first reported the news. CNN has reached out to the Raiders for comment.

The Las Vegas Raiders are expected to hire Pete Carroll, who spent 14 seasons leading the Seattle Seahawks, as their new head coach. Carroll, who was a Seahawks adviser this season, has a career record of 170-120-1.

Carroll will be 74 this fall, becoming the oldest head coach in NFL history 12 months after Seattle fired then paid him.

Pete Carroll has a youthful energy that many people half his age don't possess, and the Raiders hope that enthusiasm — and, more importantly, his proven track record — translates to Las Vegas. It's a gamble in a city that knows something about that subject on someone who will turn 74 in September,

Carroll enters his 31st season in the NFL, most recently spending 14 seasons as the Executive V.P. and Head Coach of the Seattle Seahawks.

After a year away from the game, former Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll is officially returning to football. On Friday morning it was announced the Las Vegas Raiders were signing the Seahawks legend to be their next head coach.

The Las Vegas Raiders are hiring Carroll, the former Super Bowl-winning coach of the Seattle Seahawks, as their coach, a person with knowledge of the deliberations confirmed Friday.

The 73-year-old former Patriots and Seahawks coach is returning to the NFL after just one season off the sidelines.

Pete Carroll was announced Saturday as the next leader of the Las Vegas Raiders, making the 73-year-old the oldest head coach in the NFL.

HENDERSON, Nev. — Pete Carroll was announced Saturday as Las Vegas' new coach, with the Raiders hoping that even as the oldest head coach in the NFL the 73-year-old will provide stability for an organization badly lacking it.

Despite the need at quarterback, CBS Sports' latest mock draft from Josh Edwards projects Las Vegas to add an elite pass rusher to play opposite of All-Pro defensive end Maxx Crosby. Edwards projects the Raiders to take Penn State EDGE Abdul Carter with the sixth overall pick.