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Commanders hire David Raih as tight ends coach

Dan Quinn found his tight ends coach.

Dan Quinn continues to put the finishing touches on his first coaching staff with the Washington Commanders.

On Monday, the Commanders added three coaches, and on Tuesday, they hired David Raih as their tight ends coach. Raih, 43, was a senior offensive assistant with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers last season.

Raih is the first Washington assistant thus far with experience working with new offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury. Raih’s first full-time coaching job came in 2013 with Kingsbury at Texas Tech as the assistant quarterback coach and outside receivers coach. Kingsbury was in his first season as head coach of Texas Tech.

Raih, who played collegiately at Iowa, moved to the NFL with the Green Bay Packers in 2014. He spent five years with the Packers, working with the wide receivers and offensive line.

In 2019, Raih went to Arizona, reuniting with Kingsbury as his wide receivers coach for two seasons. In 2021, Raih returned to the college game, landing with Vanderbilt as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach.

He resigned after one year at Vanderbilt before joining Tampa Bay in 2023.

The Commanders will look to upgrade the tight end position this offseason.

Bucs assistant coach David Raih leaves for Washington

Raih came to Tampa Bay last year with former offensive coordinator Dave Canales.

Another member of Tampa Bay’s offensive staff is going elsewhere this offseason.

ESPN’s Adam Schefter reported on Tuesday that Bucs offensive assistant David Raih is leaving the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to join the Washington Commanders as their tight ends coach for 2024. The move reunites Raih with Commanders offensive coordinator Kliff Kingsbury, for who he was a wide receivers coach in Arizona.

Raih was a very recent addition to Tampa Bay’s staff. He joined the Bucs in 2023 when offensive coordinator Dave Canales came to Tampa Bay to be a part of his offensive staff as a senior assistant. Canales would leave the Bucs just a year later to be the head coach of the Carolina Panthers, so with that connection gone, Raih joins another one in Kingsbury under new Commanders head coach Dan Quinn.

Raih is one of a number of staff changes to the Bucs this season following Canales’ departure. The offensive staff in Tampa Bay could look a lot different under new offensive coordinator Liam Coen, who was hired at the beginning of February.

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Tampa Bay confirms two new coaching hires

The Bucs are building their new offensive staff under OC Dave Canales.

The Tampa Bay Buccaneers have officially confirmed two new coaching hires for the 2023 season.

The team announced on Wednesday that it was officially hiring offensive analyst David Raih and assistant quarterbacks coach Jordan Somerville. The moves come as a further offensive revamp after the departure of Byron Leftwich and the hiring of Dave Canales.

Raih most recently served as the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach for the Vanderbilt Commodores in 2021. Prior to that, he worked as wide receivers coach with the Arizona Cardinals and in a number of different roles with the Green Bay Packers from 2014 to 2018.

Somerville was an offensive analyst at Oregon in 2022. He’s worked with Arizona State, New Mexico and USC in the past.

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Report: Cardinals WR coach David Raih to be Vanderbilt OC

Raih reunites with Clark Lea, both of whom were on UCLA’s 2009 coaching staff.

The Arizona Cardinals reportedly released wide receivers coach David Raih after the season and have replaced him with Shawn Jefferson. Raih has a new job lined up.

According to Al.com SEC reporter Matt Zenitz, Raih will be named the offensive coordinator at Vanderbilt.

Clark Lea is Vanderbilt’s head coach. Lea and Raih worked together at UCLA in 2009. Lea was a graduate assistant and Raih was a coaching intern at the time. It was Raih’s first coaching experience at the college level.

Raih spent the last two seasons as the Cardinals’ receivers coach after five seasons in a variety of roles with the Green Bay Packers.

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Cardinals cut ties with WR coach David Raih; Tom Clement to retire

There will be some shaking up of the offensive coaching staff this offseason.

The Arizona Cardinals have announced nothing and no changes have been made to the team site and coaching roster, but it appears there will be some changes to the offensive coaching staff.

Wide receivers coach, whose work with head coach Kliff Kingsbury dates back to 2013, has been reportedly released from his contract.

Jason LaCanfora reported it initially and ESPN’s Josh Weinfuss has confirmed that Raih is no longer on staff.

Raih isn’t the only departure. According to CBS Sports’ Dennis Dodd, Tom Clement, who has been serving like an offensive coordinator but with the title of quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator, is retiring.

Cam Turner will replace him as the quarterbacks coach.

Raih worked previously with Clement with the Green Bay Packers and has coached Davante Adams, Larry Fitzgerald and now DeAndre Hopkins.

However, while Hopkins set a franchise record in receptions with 115, the team did not get development from the three receivers they drafted in 2019. Hakeem Butler was cut before the start of the season, Andy Isabella made no impact outside of one game and was a healthy scratch in three of the final four games, and KeeSean Johnson spent several weeks inactive while healthy.

The Cardinals typically do not announce when coaches are let go or when they just leave, but with these changes, we can expect to hear in the coming weeks of new hirings and Turner’s promotion.

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KeeSean Johnson knew WR coach David Raih before either were with Cardinals

Johnson met his receivers coach when he attended Davante Adams’ wedding, when Raih was his receivers coach with the Packers.

Arizona Cardinals wide receiver KeeSean Johnson and wide receivers coach David Raih didn’t cross paths professionally until Raih was coaching for the Cardinals until after Johnson’s final season at Fresno State University. However, the two actually met socially before either had any connections to the Cardinals.

Before joining head coach Kliff Kingsbury’s staff, Raih was a receivers coach for the Green Bay Packers and one of his receivers was Davante Adams.

Adams played collegiately at Fresno State where Johnson followed him. They were never teammates but they knew each other. Johnson actually broke Adams’ record there.

That’s where the connection between Johnson and Raih begins. Johnson told reporters how the two met “randomly when he was coaching for Green Bay.”

“He was coaching Davante Adams,” Johnson recalled. “I was actually at his (Adams’) wedding and Coach Raih was his coach, so he was there. “We met at the wedding and had a brief conversation. It was a coincidence that he was the coach when I got to Arizona.”