RENTON, Wash. -- The Seattle Seahawks are expected to hire San Francisco 49ers tight ends coach and run game coordinator Brian Fleury as their 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 Klint Kubiak's replacement thinking they would likely promote from within.
Instead, they pluck from a division rival by hiring Fleury, who has spent the past seven seasons with the 49ers. He joined Kyle Shanahan's staff in 2019 as a defensive quality-control coach and spent the next two seasons (2020-21) as an offensive quality-control coach before a promotion to tight ends coach (2022). Fleury added the title of run game coordinator last season.
Kubiak spent one season as Seattle's offensive coordinator before the Las Vegas Raiders hired him to be their head coach after the Seahawks won Super Bowl LX last Sunday.
Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald interviewed four in-house candidates for the job. Among them was quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko, a longtime Kubiak assistant whom he is hiring to be the Raiders' non-playcalling OC, sources told Schefter on Sunday.
The other internal candidates the Seahawks interviewed were run game specialist Justin Outten, tight ends coach Mack Brown and passing game coordinator Jake Peetz, a source told ESPN's Jeremy Fowler.
Macdonald was seeking scheme continuity in his next coordinator, and although the coach didn't promote from within as he initially thought he would, quarterback Sam Darnold and the rest of Seattle's offense shouldn't have to start over entirely 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 for FCS school Towson. He began his NFL coaching career with the Buffalo Bills (quality control) in 2013 before serving as the Cleveland Browns' assistant linebackers coach in 2014 and their outside linebackers coach in 2015.
He was a football research analyst for the Miami Dolphins in 2016 before spending the next two seasons as the team's director of football research.