Sources: Seahawks expected to hire 49ers’ Brian Fleury as OC

RENTON, Wash. — The Seattle Seahawks are set to hire Brian Fleury, the San Francisco 49ers’ tight ends coach and run game coordinator, as their new offensive coordinator, sources informed ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Sunday.

This decision marks a significant change for the Super Bowl champion Seahawks, who initially intended to promote from within to fill Klint Kubiak’s vacancy.

Instead, they have chosen to hire Fleury from a division rival, where he has spent the last seven seasons. He joined Kyle Shanahan’s coaching staff in 2019 as a defensive quality-control coach, transitioned to offensive quality-control roles in 2020-21, and was then promoted to tight ends coach in 2022. Last season, he took on the additional role of run game coordinator.

Kubiak served as Seattle’s offensive coordinator for just one season before being hired as the head coach for the Las Vegas Raiders following the Seahawks’ victory in Super Bowl LX last Sunday.

Seahawks coach Mike Macdonald interviewed four internal candidates for the position, including quarterbacks coach Andrew Janocko, a longtime Kubiak assistant, whom he will hire as the Raiders’ non-playcalling OC, according to sources relayed by Schefter.

The other internal candidates interviewed by the Seahawks were run game specialist Justin Outten, tight ends coach Mack Brown, and passing game coordinator Jake Peetz, as reported by ESPN’s Jeremy Fowler.

Macdonald was aiming for scheme consistency in his new coordinator. While he did not promote from within as initially considered, quarterback Sam Darnold and the rest of Seattle’s offense won’t have to completely restart in 2026. The 49ers utilize a variant of the West Coast offense similar to what Kubiak implemented during his time in Seattle in 2023.

Fleury, a native of Maryland, played quarterback at the University of Maryland and at FCS Towson. He began his NFL coaching career with the Buffalo Bills in 2013 as a quality control coach, then served as the Cleveland Browns’ assistant linebackers coach in 2014 and outside linebackers coach in 2015.

In 2016, he worked as a football research analyst for the Miami Dolphins before spending the next two seasons as their director of football research.