The Seattle Seahawks are making some personnel changes on the offensive side of the ball, promoting Dave Canales from quarterbacks coach to pass-game coordinator and Austin Davis from offensive assistant to quarterbacks coach.
With the promotion, Davis becomes the youngest quarterbacks coach in the NFL, having served as quarterback Russell Wilson’s backup as recently as 2017. Davis is six months younger than Wilson.
In addition to reporting the changes, NFL Insider Albert Breer also reported that Davis was drawing interest from other teams, part of what prompted coach Pete Carroll to hand him a promotion.
Davis, 31 in June, played in parts of four NFL seasons between 2012 and 2017. He appeared in 16 games, starting 10, and completed 236 passes on 378 attempts with 13 touchdowns and 12 interceptions.
He was released by the Giants in February of 2019 and caught on as an offensive assistant with Seattle, evidently impressing enough to get promoted after just one season.
Canales has been with the Seahawks since 2010, spending one year as an administrative assistant at USC with coach Carroll in 2009 before joining him in Seattle.
