Super Bowl-winning coach Pete Carroll is interested in the Chicago Bears’ head coaching job, a league source told The Athletic Thursday.
The Bears, currently last in the NFC North, fired coach Matt Eberflus in November after a string of losses.
Carroll, 73, coached the Seattle Seahawks to a Super Bowl win in 2013 — and years before that, a national championship with USC. Carroll left the role at the beginning of this year after 14 seasons with the team but stayed on as an advisor.
Almost a year later, he appears interested in returning to the sideline — and the openings are there, as losing teams like the Bears ditch their coaches in pursuit of a future winning record.
Whether or not the role will be his is a whole other question. Bears president Kevin Warren called the job one of the “most coveted” roles in the NFL with “plenty of salary-cap space” when it comes to the roster.
But it could become a season of coaching comebacks, as longtime Patriots coach and Super Bowl winner Bill Belichick makes his return to football as a first-time college coach at UNC.
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