John Glenn made the move from the Washington Commanders to the Las Vegas Raiders, according to multiple media reports in the final week of January.
The jump from one National Football League coaching staff to another reconnects the 41-year-old Lackawanna Trail graduate with Pete Carroll.
Glenn spent a dozen years as an assistant to Carroll, the recently hired Raiders head coach, with the Seattle Seahawks. According to the reports, he will coach the linebackers, repeating a role he held on Carroll’s staff for his last six years in Seattle.
The Commanders reached the National Football Conference playoffs and won two games, knocking out the top-seeded Detroit Lions before losing to the Philadelphia Eagles with a Super Bowl berth on the line.
Glenn was an assistant special teams coach with the Commanders, serving on the staff of Dan Quinn, who had been a defensive coordinator under Carroll with the Seahawks.
After joining Carroll in Seattle as special teams coordinator in 2012, Glenn moved up to defensive quality control coach in 2014. He coached linebackers 2018-2023.
Glenn, who played at East Stroudsburg University, coached linebackers at North Carolina Wesleyan College 2006-08 and was a quality control coach at the University of Washington 2010-11 before landing in the NFL.
The Raiders are coming off a season in which they finished 4-13, last in the AFC West Division where the other three teams – the Kansas City Chiefs, Los Angeles Chargers and Denver Broncos – had winning records and made the playoffs.
