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Candidate for Raiders' Coaching Job Reportedly Withdraws Name

A rising star reportedly won’t take the Las Vegas job.
Davis Webb surveys the field before a preseason game against the 49ers.
Davis Webb surveys the field before a preseason game against the 49ers. | Kyle Terada-Imagn Images

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The Raiders’ coaching search seems to have shrunk by one candidate.

Broncos quarterbacks coach Davis Webb has pulled his name from Las Vegas’s search, according to a Thursday evening report from Ian Rapoport of NFL Network.

Webb, 31, is in just his third year in the coaching ranks. He has served as Denver’s quarterbacks coach since 2023, and added offensive passing game coordinator to his title for the 2025 season. With the Broncos, he has overseen the continued development of quarterback Bo Nix, who led Denver to the AFC championship in a second straight productive season.

Per Rapoport, Webb is now a top candidate for his team’s vacant offensive coordinator position.

As a player, Webb spent three collegiate seasons with Texas Tech and one with California. He appeared in a game with the Bills in 2021 and a game with the Giants, the team that drafted him, in 2022.

Las Vegas, which fired Pete Carroll after one season on Jan. 5, has not reached the playoffs since 2021 and hasn’t won a playoff game since winning the AFC title in 2002.


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PATRICK ANDRES

Patrick Andres is a staff writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated. He joined SI in December 2022, having worked for The Blade, Athlon Sports, Fear the Sword and Diamond Digest. Andres has covered everything from zero-attendance Big Ten basketball to a seven-overtime college football game. He is a graduate of Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism with a double major in history .