After a year out of the NFL, Pete Carroll wants to coach again and is interested in the Bears. Here's why they should be interested in him.

Do the Bears regret not trying to hire Harbaugh last year? Carroll, while much older, is one of the few candidates in the same mold.

Perhaps Pete Carroll’s age feels like a legitimate deterrent to some. He is, after all, a septuagenarian, turning 74 in September 2025. Do the Chicago Bears really want to roll those dice and unite with a gray-haired coach whose NFL career likely won’t reach the end of this decade?

The timing might not be right for a 73-year-old defensive-minded coach. But Carroll’s candidacy is a reminder of how much the Bears need someone like him — an energetic, aggressive personality who would shake things up at Halas Hall.

Pete Carroll has reportedly expressed interest in coaching the Bears and Caleb Williams a day before his former team, the Seahawks, visited Chicago for a game.

The latest rumor in the Chicago Bears ' coaching search is that there's mutual interest between the team and former USC Trojans and Seattle Seahawks head coach Pete Carroll.

“He runs more than we do,” Seahawks linebacker Derick Hall, who played for Carroll last year, told the Sun-Times on Thursday. “He comes out on the field and he’ll be running 100 [-yard dashes] and throwing deep balls.

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.