Raiders Fill Multiple Coaching Positions

Young returns to the NFL ranks after serving one year as the running backs coach at Iowa in 2025. Young has bounced back and forth between the college and NFL levels over the years, holding minor offensive assistant roles at San Jose State, Colorado, and South Carolina as well as with the Browns, Packers, Bears, and Patriots. His first coaching job ever was as a special teams coordinator/secondary coach in 2010, and he didn’t earn another position coaching role until working as running backs coach at Eastern Illinois in 2019 and adding co-special teams coordinator to his title for the next two years. After moving into the Power 4 with the Hawkeyes last year, he’ll now get his first position coaching opportunity in the NFL.

Williams finds his way to Las Vegas after spending three seasons with the Eagles. Starting as a linebackers coach at Widener and a graduate assistant/defensive analyst at Temple, Williams found his way to Chicago in 2019 as a defensive quality control coach for the Bears. He joined the Eagles in 2023 as the nickel cornerbacks coach, was moved to assistant linebackers coach in 2024, and added defensive quality control coach to his title last year. Like Young, this will be Williams’ first opportunity to lead a position room in the NFL.

According to Jonathan Jones of NFL on CBS, the team planned to interview Titans senior defensive assistant Ben Bloom for the role before landing on Williams. Bloom spent the past two years working with Tennessee’s outside linebackers, so he may still be able to find a role on staff working with edge rushers for the Raiders.

Holcomb arrives in Vegas with over 30 years of coaching experience, with the last 17 all coming from the NFL. Starting as a graduate assistant at Temple in 1995, Holcomb held roles at Colby, Bloomsburg, Kutztown, and Lafayette over the next 13 years. He made his NFL debut as a defensive quality control coach with the Giants before being named a defensive assistant for the team. He worked as linebackers coach of the Panters for five years before earning a defensive coordinator opportunity with the Cardinals. That opportunity only lasted a year, though, before he went to Cleveland as linebackers coach and run game coordinator.

After returning to the Panthers for three years and serving as an interim defensive coordinator before departing, Holcomb found his way to his most recent stop, Buffalo. He’s spent the past three years in Buffalo, starting as a senior defensive assistant before working the past two seasons as linebackers coach.