John Glenn joins the Las Vegas Raiders as the linebackers coach in 2025, bringing with him 13 years of NFL coaching experience.
He most recently served as the assistant special teams coach for the Washington Commanders in 2024.
Prior to the Commanders, Glenn spent 12 seasons with the Seattle Seahawks from 2012-23, serving as the linebackers coach since 2018. He was a member of the Super Bowl XLVIII winning team in 2014.
In his final season in Seattle in 2023, Glenn coached LB Bobby Wagner who led the NFL in tackles (283) and became just the third player in NFL history to record 100-plus tackles in 12 consecutive seasons.
In 2022, Glenn guided LB Jordyn Brooks who transitioned from a weakside linebacker to middle linebacker and led the NFC and was fifth in the NFL with 161 tackles. It is also marked the fourth-most tackles for a single-season in Seahawks history. He also developed LB Cody Barton as he recorded 136 tackles, four tackles for loss, a pair of sacks, six passes defensed and two interceptions.
In 2021, Glenn led a linebacker room that saw Brooks have a breakout campaign, ranking second in the NFL with a franchise-record 183 tackles. Wagner finished with 170 tackles, second most in franchise history, while being selected to his eight consecutive Pro Bowl. Wagner was also named second-team All-Pro.
In 2020, Wagner became the first player in franchise history to record nine consecutive 100-tackle seasons. He was voted to the Pro Bowl for the seventh time and selected to the Associated Press All-Pro first team.
In 2019, Glenn's linebacker core was led by Wagner and K.J. Wright. Wagner recorded the second-most tackles in franchise history with 159 (first in NFL), trailing his own franchise record of 167, while Wright posted a career-high 132 tackles, marking the fifth 100-tackle season of his career.
Glenn served a variety of roles upon joining the Seattle staff in 2012, beginning as a coaching and special teams assistant. He was then promoted to the role of defensive quality control coach the following season and became a defensive assistant before assuming the role of a linebacker's assistant in 2017.
Glenn entered the NFL coaching ranks after spending two seasons (2010-11) as the University of Washington's quality control coach following three seasons as a linebackers coach for North Carolina Wesleyan College (2006-08).
PERSONAL: A native of Scranton, Pa., Glenn was a three-year letter-winner at linebacker on East Stroudsburg University's 2004 and 2005 NCAA playoff teams. He was also a two-year letter-winner in basketball from 2001-03. Glenn and his wife, Leigh, have three sons, Nate, Luke, and Will.
