James Cregg is entering his first season with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2024 as the offensive line coach, bringing with him 26 years of coaching experience, including eight years as a coach in the NFL.

James Cregg is entering his first season with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2024 as the offensive line coach, bringing with him 26 years of coaching experience, including eight years as a coach in the NFL.

Cregg joins the Raiders after spending two seasons as the assistant offensive line coach with the San Francisco 49ers (2022-23). Last season (2023), Cregg assisted an offensive line that only allowed 34 sacks, tied for the sixth fewest in the NFL. Cregg's unit also paved the way for 140.5 rushing yards per game in 2023, the third most in the NFL and the highest average in a single season by San Francisco since 2019 (144.1). The 49ers' offensive line played a part in RB Christian McCaffrey's league-leading 1,459 rushing yards, winning the 2023 NFL rushing title and AP Offensive Player of the Year.

In his first season with the 49ers (2022), Cregg assisted with a unit that allowed just 31 sacks, the sixth fewest in the NFL, including five games without allowing a sack, matching the most registered by the 49ers in a single season since 1980 (2000). The line also blocked for 138.8 rushing yards per game, the eight best average in the league. In both seasons with San Francisco (2022-23), Cregg saw T Trent Williams earn Pro Bowl and AP First Team All-Pro Honors.

He joined the 49ers after spending three seasons (2018-20) as the offensive line coach at Louisiana State University. In 2020 with LSU, Cregg saw the Tigers rush for an average of 121.7 yards per game. The year prior, LSU had eight players start on the offensive line, using a different starting lineup on the offensive line in every game until games 8 and 9 (wins over Auburn and Alabama). Cregg led C Lloyd Cushenberry, who was later drafted in the third round of the 2020 NFL Draft by the Denver Broncos, and RG Damien Lewis, who was later drafted in the third round of the 2020 NFL Draft by the Seattle Seahawks – both players started every game for the Tigers and both earned All-America honors. LSU's offensive line in 2019 helped pave the way for the first offense in NCAA history to feature a 5,000-yard passer, two 1,000-yard receivers and a 1,000-yard rusher. LSU's offense led the country in both scoring (32.0) and total offense (433.9) and set numerous SEC and school records on its way to a 15-0 record and a national title. Cregg's unit was also selected as the winner of the Joe Moore Award in 2019 for the Most Outstanding Offensive Line Unit in college football that season.

The 2018 Tigers had an offensive line that returned only two starters (Garrett Brumfield and Saahdiq Charles), and Cregg's unit helped pave the way for 1,000-yard rusher RB Nick Brossette. LSU had eight different players start at least one game on the offensive line in Cregg's first season at LSU and the Tigers used a total of seven combinations on the offensive line in 13 games.

Cregg joined LSU after one season (2017) with the Los Angeles Chargers where he assisted with an offensive line that allowed the fewest sacks in the NFL (18) and helped RB Melvin Gordon III rush for a career-high 1,105 yards.

Cregg went to the Chargers following three seasons (2014-16) as the assistant offensive line coach with the Denver Broncos. In his first year with the Broncos in 2014, Denver's offensive line allowed the fewest sacks in the NFL (17) and ranked fourth in the League in total offense (402.9 yards per game). T Ryan Clady earned his fourth-career Pro Bowl selection. The Broncos won Super Bowl 50 in Cregg's second season in Denver, as the Broncos defeated the Carolina Panthers, 24-10, at Levi's Stadium. The Broncos featured six new additions who made starts along the offensive line. In 2014, he assisted an offensive line that allowed the fewest sacks in the NFL (17) and helped the offense finish fourth in total offense (402.9) and second in scoring offense (30.1).

From 2010-13, Cregg worked as the offensive line coach at the University of Southern California. Cregg coached First-Team All-Pac-12 selections in each of his four years with the school, including future NFL first-round picks T Tyron Smith (number nine overall to the Dallas Cowboys in 2011) and Matt Kalil (number four overall to the Minnesota Vikings in 2012). In 2011, USC finished second in the nation in sacks allowed (eight), and Kalil was named a First-Team All-American, while G Marcus Martin was a First-Team Freshman All-American. Before USC, Cregg spent the 2009 season at the University of Tennessee coaching the offensive line, where the Volunteers allowed just 12 sacks, tied for fewest in the SEC.

Cregg first entered the NFL with the Oakland Raiders, working as the team's assistant offensive line coach for two seasons (2007-08). The Raiders averaged 124.2 rushing yards per game in 2008 (10ht in NFL) after finishing the 2007 season with the sixth-best rushing offense (130.4).

Before his first stint with the Raiders, Cregg spent three seasons (2004-06) as defensive line coach at the University of Idaho. He joined Idaho after spending the 2000-03 seasons at Colgate University coaching the defensive line. He began his coaching career at Colorado State University, where he served as a defensive graduate assistant from 1997-99.

PERSONAL: A native of Norco, Calif. ...Played four years (1992-95) at Colorado State, where he started on the offensive line his final two seasons and earned All-WAC honors as a senior in 1995…Cregg and his wife, Dayna, have one daughter, McKenzie.