The Seahawks’ new offensive coordinator is already settling into the job, and Brian Fleury knows exactly where the pressure points are. After Wednesday’s training camp practice, Fleury met the media for the first time since camp opened, stepping into a role he has never held before while also taking on a run game that needs a fresh edge.
Seattle hired Fleury in February to replace Clint Kubiak, who is now head coach of the Las Vegas Raiders. The move gave the Seahawks a coach with a long, winding background on both sides of the ball.
Fleury has spent 23 years in coaching, beginning as the Buffalo Bills’ defensive quality control coach in 2013 before moving to the Browns as linebackers coach from 2014-2015. He then worked as a research analyst for the Dolphins from 2016-2018, joined the Niners in 2019 as defensive quality control coach, shifted to offensive control coach in 2020, and served as tight ends coach from 2022 to 2024.
In 2025, he was promoted to Run Game Coordinator and Tight Ends coach.
That blend of defensive and offensive experience is part of what caught Mike Macdonald’s attention. The Seahawks head coach liked Fleury’s feel for how defenses work and how to attack them, along with the same detail-oriented, direct communication style Macdonald values himself.
Now Fleury is handling his first offensive coordinator assignment, and the scope of the job is different from what he has done before.
“Obviously, you’re overseeing the entire group. I’m used to installing to the entire group but now it’s just having to make sure that I’m paying attention to every aspect of every drill, said Fleury when asked about the difference between a being a positional coach and coordinator. “There’s times as a position coach where you can hunker down in your bunker and focus on your own guys and now, I don’t have that luxury anymore.”
A big part of that responsibility is shaping Seattle’s ground game. The Seahawks finished tenth in rushing at 123.3 yards per game, but the backfield looks very different now.
Super Bowl MVP Ken Walker III signed with the Kansas City Chiefs, and Zach Charbonnet ended the season on IR after a season-ending knee injury in the Seahawks’ Divisional Round playoff game against the San Francisco 49ers. George Holani filled in for Charbonnet, but he is not in the mix to win the starting job.
Seattle also drafted Jadarian Price in the first round to help reinforce the run game, which remains a work in progress.
Fleury isn’t sugarcoating where things stand.
“I want us to be better. We are moving in the right direction.
We have been efficient in practice, but I see things through a different lens. It’s not the success of the play on the practice field,” said Fleury when asked to assess the team’s run game .
I’m looking at everyone’s alignment and technique and there’s a lot of room for growth there. Not to say that we’re doing poorly, but I expect that to be an extremely reliable portion of our game, and it’s not there yet.”
Even so, he believes the Seahawks have built a solid base in the new system. The challenge, as he sees it, is that the team is facing the same defensive look every day in practice, while the offense is being built to handle a wider variety of fronts and styles. That means some pieces are simply waiting for a better setting, which is why Fleury said he’s eager to get to Tennessee and put more of the package on the field.
One area that should help him is the offensive line. Seattle returns all five starters up front: tackles Charles Cross and Abraham Lucas, guards Anthony Bradford and Grey Zabel, and center Jalen Sundell. Fleury called that kind of continuity rare, especially for a Super Bowl team, and said it gives the offense a real advantage as the installation continues.
“I’m walking into a good situation. I’ve worked with John Benton before - he does a phenomenal job of coaching that group.
The cohesion that they already have makes it easy to implement stuff, ” said Fleury. “When you do realize that an adjustment needs to be made, they are so used to working with each other and communicating that adjustments happen lightning fast.
That’s a nice advantage to that situation.”
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