Chip Kelly’s time in the NFL has ended. Again.
The Raiders announced that they have parted ways with their first-year offensive coordinator.
Kelly, hired as part of Pete Carroll’s staff after spending 2024 with Ohio State, was the highest-paid coordinator in the NFL, reportedly at $6 million per year.
An interim coordinator has not yet been identified.
Kelly went from a successful run as head coach at Oregon to the Eagles in 2013. He was fired after three seasons, and he was one-and-done as head coach of the 49ers.
From 2018 through 2023 he was the head coach at UCLA. His job with the Raiders was his first NFL stint as a coordinator.
It had seemed for weeks as if Carroll and Kelly could not co-exist over the long term. As it turned out, they couldn’t co-exist in the short term.
Whatever the Raiders do next, it likely won’t change their eventual fate for the season. They’re currently 2-9. And the overriding question is whether Carroll, who has lost five games in a row for only the second time in his 28-year career as a pro and college coach, will be back in 2026.