Raiders fire Chip Kelly, highest-paid coordinator in NFL, after another disastrous performance: reports

After different lackluster violative performance, the Las Vegas Raiders person fired violative coordinator Chip Kelly, according to aggregate reports.

This is the 2nd coordinator fired by the Raiders successful the past 3 weeks, arsenic peculiar teams coordinator Tom McMahon was relieved of his duties aft a 10-7 nonaccomplishment to the Denver Broncos connected Nov. 6.

Las Vegas placed dense accent connected upgrading its discourtesy this offseason, and Kelly’s summation made him the highest-paid coordinator successful the NFL with a woody worthy an mean of $6 cardinal per season.

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Offensive coordinator Chip Kelly and caput manager Pete Carroll of the Las Vegas Raiders earlier the NFL Preseason 2025 crippled betwixt Las Vegas Raiders and Seattle Seahawks astatine Lumen Field connected Aug. 7, 2025 successful Seattle, Washington. (Steph Chambers/Getty Images)

Kelly was coming disconnected a nationalist rubric triumph with the Ohio State Buckeyes, and with Pete Carroll coming retired of status to manager the Raiders, helium returned to the NFL to articulation him successful Las Vegas.

But aft adding seasoned backmost Geno Smith successful a commercialized with the Seattle Seahawks and utilizing their first-round prime connected moving backmost Ashton Jeanty, the discourtesy simply hasn’t performed good enough. 

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Owner Mark Davis and the remainder of the enactment decided it was clip to fto Kelly spell earlier the extremity of his archetypal play with the franchise.

Kelly’s firing came aft the Raiders scored conscionable 10 points successful a 24-10 nonaccomplishment to the Cleveland Browns earlier Sunday. Smith threw for 285 yards connected 30-of-44 passing with 1 touchdown to Jeanty. But the Raiders person scored 16 points oregon less successful 4 of their past 5 games — each of which person ended successful losses.

Offensive coordinator Chip Kelly of the Las Vegas Raiders stands connected the tract anterior to an NFL shot crippled against the Los Angeles Chargers astatine Allegiant Stadium connected Sept. 15, 2025 successful Las Vegas, Nevada. (Brooke Sutton/Getty Images)

Entering Sunday’s game, the Raiders ranked 3rd worst successful yards per crippled (269) and points per crippled (15.5). Carroll besides couldn’t person been pleased with Jeanty and the rushing attack, which managed conscionable 81.4 yards per crippled contempt investing a first-round prime astatine moving back.

The Raiders’ violative enactment has been a occupation each season, with Smith being sacked 31 times entering the crippled against Cleveland. The Browns near Allegiant Stadium connected Sunday with 10 sacks. Only Tennessee Titans backmost Cam Ward, the No. 1 wide pick, has been sacked much times this play with 45.

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It’s chartless who volition instrumentality implicit violative play-calling duties for the Raiders the remainder of the season. But astatine 2-9, it’s been an unfortunate commencement to Carroll’s instrumentality — a play that was expected to rejuvenate the franchise.

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