There’s a new name from outside of the organization that is reportedly being included in the Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks’ search for a new offensive coordinator.
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NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport reported Friday morning that the Seahawks will interview Arizona Cardinals pass game specialist Conner Senger for their OC position that has been opened following Klint Kubiak’s hiring this week as Las Vegas Raiders head coach.
Senger is the fifth reported candidate for Seattle’s OC role. The other four, all reported by ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler on Thursday, are in-house candidates: quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko, passing game coordinator Jake Peetz, run game specialist/assistant offensive line coach Justin Outten and tight ends coach Mack Brown.
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Senger was a quarterback in college at Wisconsin (2013-14) and Wisconsin-Oshkosh (2015-16), and immediately started coaching after his playing career as Wisconsin-Oshkosh quaterbacks coach in 2017. He joined the Cardinals’ coaching staff in 2022, assisting with the team’s QBs as part of the Bill Bidwill Coaching Fellowship.
Senger was Arizona’s offensive quality coach in 2023 and assistant quarterbacks coach in 2024 before being promoted to pass game specialist a year ago.
The Chicago Bears also interviewed Senger for their offensive coordinator position, per Rapoport, who added that “Arizona plans to retain Senger, if possible.” The Cardinals recently hired Mike LaFleur as their new head coach. LaFleuer is coming off of three seasons as offensive coordinator of another of the Seahawks’ NFC West rivals, the Los Angeles Rams.
The Cardinals were seventh in the NFL in 2025 with 232.6 passing yards per game even though starting quarterback Kyler Murray was limited to just five games due to injury.
Seahawks head coach Mike Macdonald stressed that the team is looking for “continuity” with their offense in replacing Kubiak.
“Part of our vision here is that we want to have the Seattle Seahawks system, that’s gonna evolve over time, and it’s gonna be our system,” Macdonald told Seattle Sports’ Brock and Salk on Tuesday. “And ultimately, we want to be a place where we can create an environment where, if we do a great job and we do what we’re supposed to do, we can create opportunities for our own people and keep growing our people.
“But that doesn’t mean we’re not gonna augment our staff from people that are out there. I mean, we’re always gonna do that. But right now, that’s where my mind is.”
In Kubiak’s one season as Seattle’s OC, the Seahawks ranked third in the NFL with 28.4 points per game and eighth with 351.4 yards of offense per game. Seattle was eighth in passing (228.1 yards per game) and tied for 10th in rushing (123.3 yards per game), and its season-long commitment to the run game paid off as they surged in production on the ground down the stretch and in the postseason. Over the final three games of the regular season and three games in the playoffs, the Seahawks averaged 150.8 rushing yards per game.
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