Joe DeCamillis enters his first season as the special teams coordinator for the Las Vegas Raiders in 2026, bringing 34 years of NFL coaching experience to the post. During his career, he has been a part of teams that have appeared in seven Conference Championship Games and four Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl titles with the Denver Broncos in 2015 and the Los Angeles Rams in 2021.

Joe DeCamillis enters his first season as the special teams coordinator for the Las Vegas Raiders in 2026, bringing 34 years of NFL coaching experience to the post. During his career, he has been a part of teams that have appeared in seven Conference Championship Games and four Super Bowls, winning Super Bowl titles with the Denver Broncos in 2015 and the Los Angeles Rams in 2021.

Prior to joining the Silver and Black, DeCamillis spent two seasons serving as the South Carolina Gamecocks' associate head coach/special teams coordinator (2024-25) after one season at the University of Texas (2023).

In 2025, he was nominated for the Broyles Award after working with a special teams unit that was completely overhauled from 2024 with a new player in every specialist role. Mason Love was the nation's second-ranked freshman punter and earned Freshman All-SEC honors after averaging 45.1 yards per punt, the league's third-best mark. Returner Vicari Swain was named All-SEC after averaging 15.9-yards per punt return with three touchdowns, tying the school's single-season record. Walk-on placekicker William Joyce was successful on 12-of-15 field goal attempts and all 31 PATs.

In his first season with the Gamecocks in 2024, DeCamillis mentored punter Kai Kroeger, who earned second team All-America honors and was the coaches' selection as the All-SEC punter. A Ray Guy semifinalist, Kroeger led the SEC and ranked third in the country averaging 47.8 yards per punt. The Gamecocks finished sixth in the nation in net punting, 13th in punt return defense and 14th in kickoff return defense.

DeCamillis spent the 2023 season on Steve Sarkisian's staff at the University of Texas where he served as a special assistant to the head coach. With his assistance, Texas tied for 10th in the nation with three blocked kicks, ranked 11th in the nation with a 15.9-yard punt return average and 16th in the country with a net punting average of 41.8 yards. The Longhorns won the Big 12 title and advanced to the College Football Playoffs in DeCamillis' lone season in Austin.

Prior to his stint at UT, DeCamillis was the special teams coordinator for the Los Angeles Rams for two seasons (2021-22). In 2022, K Matt Gay finished top 10 in the NFC in field goals made (28 – 7th), field goal percentage (96.9 – 5th) and total points scored (115 – 9th), while P Riley Dixon recorded the 11th-best punting average (48.4) in the NFL that season.

Under the leadership of DeCamillis, Gay earned his first Pro Bowl selection in 2021 after making 32 of 34 FGs and ranking third in the NFL with 144 points scored and sixth with 32 made field goals during the regular season. In the postseason, DeCamillis watched Gay score 35 points and convert on 8-of-10 field goal attempts and all 11 extra point attempts.

During the Super Bowl winning season, the Rams ranked fifth in the NFL with 11.3 yards per punt return and fifth with a 42.6 net punting average. The Rams punting unit also recorded three punts inside the 5-yard line, which was tied for 10th best in the league.

Prior to joining the Rams, DeCamillis spent four seasons (2017-20) with the Jacksonville Jaguars in his second stint with the franchise. In 2020, Jacksonville ranked seventh in net punting average (42.4), seventh in gross punting average (46.9) and allowed only 7.5 yards per punt return, the 11th-best mark in the NFL.

In 2019, DeCamillis helped P Logan Cooke and K Josh Lambo to become the first teammates to lead the league in net punting average and field goal percentage in the same year since 2000. Cooke posted a 44.5-yard net punting average, tied for the highest mark in the NFL, while Lambo was named to the Associated Press All-Pro second team after making a franchise single-season record 33 field goals. His 97.1 pct. FG rate was the highest among NFL kickers and ranks first in Jaguars' franchise history.

In 2018, DeCamillis directed a special teams unit that finished first in the league in opposing kick return average (17.8) and second in opposing punt return average (5.0). Cooke, who was selected in the seventh round of the 2018 Draft, recorded a franchise-record 37 punts inside the 20, the third-most in the NFL and the most among rookies. DeCamillis used WR Dede Westbrook as the primary punt returner and he recorded 26 returns for 229 yards (8.8 avg.), including a 74-yard punt return touchdown, marking the third-longest punt return in franchise history.

In 2017, DeCamillis oversaw a mid-season kicking change as Lambo, who was acquired by Jacksonville prior to the team's Week 7 contest, finished 19-of-20 on FGs (95.0 pct.), including 12-of-12 at TIAA Field. Lambo's 95.0 field goal percentage is the second-best mark in Jaguars single-season history. P Brad Nortman landed a career-high 29 punts inside the 20, which is tied for seventh in franchise history. DeCamillis' unit also converted on all three fake punt tries, with RB Corey Grant gaining 58 yards against Baltimore and scoring on a 56-yard touchdown against the Chargers.

DeCamillis spent the 2015-16 seasons as the special teams coordinator for the Denver Broncos. In 2016, DeCamillis' unit ranked seventh in the NFL in both opponents' punt return average (6.8) and opponents' kickoff return average (20.2), while finishing 11th in the NFL in kick return average (22.9).

In 2015, Denver's special teams produced three takeaways, two blocked kicks and one punt return touchdown under DeCamillis. Second-year K Brandon McManus connected on 30-of-35 (.857) field goals, including six kicks from 50 yards or longer to tie the franchise record for a single season. He also converted all 10 of his field goal tries during Denver's three playoff games to represent the second-most conversions in a single postseason in NFL history.

Before returning to Denver, DeCamillis spent two seasons (2013-14) as the Chicago Bears assistant head coach/special teams coach, instructing a unit that allowed a league-low 18.3 yards per kick return while generating two touchdown returns and three takeaways. In 2013, WR Devin Hester registered one of the best seasons of his career under DeCamillis, posting his second-highest kickoff return average (27.6) and fourth-highest punt return average (14.2).

Prior to coaching with the Bears, DeCamillis served as special teams coordinator with Dallas Cowboys from 2009-12. During that time, the Cowboys tied for the most punt return touchdowns (six) in the NFL, including a franchise-record three in 2010 by the rookie duo of WR Dez Bryant (two) and CB Bryan McCann (one).

Cowboys P Matt McBriar earned his second career Pro Bowl selection in 2010 after leading the NFL in both gross (47.9) and net (41.9) punting average, and K Dan Bailey converted 61-of-68 field goals during his first two NFL seasons (2011-12) under DeCamillis to rank fifth in the league in that span.

As Jacksonville's special teams coach from 2007-08, DeCamillis' coverage unit ranked third in the NFL in average opponent field position after kickoffs (26.7-yard line) over that span with 23.6% of kickoffs being downed inside the 20, the highest percentage in the NFL.

DeCamillis had a 10-year run coaching special teams for the Atlanta Falcons (1997-2006)— the first seven years under Head Coach Dan Reeves, whom he worked in his first two NFL coaching roles with the Broncos and New York Giants.

Five different Falcons combined for 13 total special teams return touchdowns under DeCamillis, including four by Darrick Vaughn and three each by Tim Dwight and 2004 Pro Bowl selection Allen Rossum. In 2002, K Jay Feely set Falcons single-season records for points (138) and field goals made (32) as the club returned to the postseason and advanced to the NFC Divisional Playoffs. DeCamillis was part of the Falcons' coaching staff that helped lead the franchise to its first NFC Championship and an appearance in Super Bowl XXXIII during the 1998 season.

He coached special teams for the New York Giants from 1993-96, as the club accounted for the fourth-most kick return scores (six) in the NFL during that period. RB David Meggett tied for second in the league with three punt return TDs during his final two years with the Giants (1993-94), ranking fourth in the NFL with his 11.3-yard punt return average in that two-year span.

DeCamillis began his NFL career in Denver in 1989 assisting with the club's football administration for two years before serving as a defensive quality control coach from 1991-92.

PERSONAL: A native of Arvada, Colo., DeCamillis wrestled for the University of Wyoming where he was a two-time All-Western Athletic Conference performer and an All-American after placing eighth at the 1988 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championships…DeCamillis and his wife, Dana, have two children, Caitlin and Ashley, and six grandchildren, Decker, Annabelle, Brooks, Gunner, Cooper and Reeves.