Seahawks identify four in-house candidates to replace Klint Kubiak as OC

As the Seattle Seahawks celebrate winning Super Bowl 60, Mike Macdonald and John Schneider have to get right back to work and replace a departing coach.

That coach would be offensive coordinator Klint Kubaik, who took the Las Vegas Raiders head coaching job. Seattle needs a new offensive play caller and is looking to narrow down their field of candidates already.

According to ESPN's Jeremy Fowler, the Seahawks have four in-house candidates who are going to interview for the offensive coordinator and play-caller job in Seattle for the Super Bowl champions.

Seahawks identify 4 in-house OC candidates to replace Klint Kubiak

"The Seattle Seahawks are interviewing four in-house candidates - Andrew Janocko, Jake Peetz, Justin Outten, and Mack Brown - Thursday and Friday for the offensive coordinator job, per sources," Fowler reports. "Head coach Mike Macdonald taking hard look internally for Klint Kubiak's replacement."

Replacing Kubaik won't be easy, especially with how much he improved the offense this season for Seattle compared to years prior.

While they weren't the best offense in the league, Kubiak helped Jaxon Smith-Njigba put up a top-10 all-time receiving season with Offensive Player of the Year honors, got Sam Darnold a Pro Bowl invite, and put together an all-around great season.

These four in-house candidates are all on the offensive side of the ball and range from position coaches to assistants.

Mack Brown is the tight ends coach, a position group that saw AJ Barner turn in an impressive season, and rookie Elijah Arroyo flash at times during the year.

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Andrew Janocko is the quarterbacks coach who helped Darnold turn in the best year of his career and finally put the "seeing ghosts" storyline behind him with a clean playoff run.

Justin Outten is the run game specialist/assistant offensive line coach. Seattle's run game got a lot better as the year went on, and the offensive line was also a huge step in the right direction after years of shaky play.

Lastly, Jake Peetz is the offensive passing game coordinator for Seattle. Darnold had a great year as a passer, while Smith-Njigba was the offensive player of the year, and the overall passing offense was one of the more potent units in the league this season.

All are strong candidates, and while there's no frontrunner for now, the Seahawks appear poised to promote from within, and one of these four candidates looks to be likely to land the offensive coordinator job to replace Kubiak.

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