American football coach Peter Clay Carroll is the head coach of the Seattle Seahawks and executive vice president of the National Football League.
From 2001 to 2009, he was the head football coach at USC, where he won six bowl games and two National Championships in a row in 2003 and 2004.
Is Pete Carroll the oldest coach in the NFL? Who is the oldest coach in the NFL in 2023?
Carroll was born in San Francisco, California, on September 15, 1951, to Rita (née Ban) and James Edward Jim Carroll.
His Croatian maternal grandparents immigrated from the ibenik region, and two of his paternal great-grandparents were Irish immigrants.
He went to Greenbrae School and was raised in Greenbrae, California. Carroll attended Larkspur, California’s Redwood High School.
The 69-year-old Carroll, who is currently the second-oldest coach in the NFL, revealed this week that he decided to undergo an arthroscopic knee.
The average age of all NFL coaches entering the 2023 season is 42.7 years old, ranging from 23 to 83. USA TODAY Sports NFL Coaches Project gathered data on all 722 on-field coaches at the start of this season.
Here are the top 5 oldest NFL coaches for the 2022–2023 season.
- Pete Carroll, Seattle Seahawks, is 71 years old.
- Bill Belichick, New England Patriots, 70 years old.
- Andy Reid, Kansas City Chiefs, 64 years old.
- Ron Rivera, Washington Commander, is 61 years old.
- John Harbaugh, Baltimore Ravens, 60 years old.
Carroll favorably compared college recruiting to any other competition and enjoys the ability to recruit talent, which he was unable to do in the NFL.
He likens being a college head coach to being both the “coach and general manager. He assigned all jersey numbers to his players, an assignment he takes seriously.
When he was an incoming freshman at Pacific, he wanted No. 40, the number he had worn in all sports growing up; however, Pacific had retired the number in honor of quarterback/safety Eddie LeBaron, so Carroll ended up with 46.
It's rookie minicamp time! Which means football is just around the corner!!! pic.twitter.com/10sJjO1vgP
— Pete Carroll (@PeteCarroll) May 12, 2023
