
Nate Carroll
Senior Offensive Assistant
College: USC
Experience: 12 years
Biography
Named to the Seahawks staff on July 26, 2010, Nate Carroll moved in to the coaching ranks in 2011 after spending the 2010 season as a personnel assistant in the scouting department.
Named to the Seahawks staff on July 26, 2010, Nate Carroll moved into the coaching ranks in 2011 after spending the 2010 season as a personnel assistant in the scouting department.
Carroll enters his first season as senior offensive assistant after spending four seasons as the team's wide receivers coach (2018-21), and four seasons as an assistant (2014-17).
Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf led the wide receiver room once again last season as Lockett joined Steve Largent as the second player in franchise history with three-straight 1,000-yard receiving seasons. Metcalf finished fourth in the NFL with 12 receiving touchdowns, third most in team history.
In 2020, Tyler Lockett and DK Metcalf etched their names in the club's record books after becoming the second pair of 1,000-yard receivers in Seahawks history (Brian Blades and Joey Galloway in 1995). Lockett set a team record with 100 catches and 1,054 yards, the sixth player in club history to register back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons. Metcalf was voted to the Pro Bowl and named to the Associated Press All-Pro Team (second team), after setting a club record for most receiving yards in a season with 1,303. The duo gave Seattle two receivers with 10-plus touchdowns in a season for the second time in franchise history (Steve Largent and Daryl Turner in 1984).
Seattle's wide receivers in 2019 were led by a fifth-year veteran in Tyler Lockett and rookie in DK Metcalf. Lockett set a career-high with 1,057 yards and became the eighth player in franchise history to record a 1,000-yard season and first since Doug Baldwin in 2016. Metcalf moved directly in to the starting lineup and recorded the second-most receptions (58) by a rookie in franchise history and his receptions and 900 yards ranked second and third, respectively, in the NFL among rookie wide receivers. His 160 yards at Philadelphia in the Wild Card Game set the franchise postseason record and was the most receiving yards in a playoff game by a rookie in NFL history. His two-game postseason total of 219 yards are the third-most among rookies in NFL history.
With Baldwin slowed by injuries in 2018, it was Lockett who led the group with career-highs in catches (57), yards (965) and touchdowns (10, 6th NFL), while Baldwin was second on the team with 50 catches for 618 yards. When QB Russell Wilson targeted Lockett, he was 57 for 70 (81.4%) for 965 yards with 10 touchdowns and zero interceptions, good for a perfect 158.3 passer rating, a feat last accomplished in the 2009 season.
In 2017, Baldwin led the team for the fourth-consecutive season in catches and yards, with 75 receptions for 991 yards while adding eight touchdowns. He was also named to the Pro Bowl for the second year in a row.
Baldwin earned his first Pro Bowl appearance in 2016 after tying the franchise record with a career-high 94 receptions along with a career-high 1,128 yards, becoming the fifth player in franchise history to record back-to-back 1,000-yard seasons.
In 2015, Seattle's receivers helped Wilson lead the NFL with a 110.1 rating. Baldwin became Seattle's first 1,000-yard receiver since Bobby Engram in 2007 and led the NFL with 14 touchdown receptions, also a franchise-record. Jermaine Kearse recorded career-highs in receptions, yards and touchdowns while Lockett's 51 receptions tied Baldwin for the fifth-most in franchise history by a rookie.
Carroll moved in to a new role in 2013 as an offensive assistant, working alongside wide receivers coach Kippy Brown during Seattle's Super Bowl-XLVIII winning season. Brown's group helped Wilson become the first quarterback in NFL history with a 100-plus passer rating in each of his first two seasons (2012-13).
In his first two seasons on the Seahawks coaching staff as a defensive assistant, Carroll's primary responsibilities included video study of opponents, self-scouting, playbook production and assisting several coaches and defensive coordinator Gus Bradley.
A graduate of USC, he earned his degree in psychology in 2010. Carroll was a three-sport star at Peninsula High in Palos Verdes, Calif., earning Athlete of the Year honors in 2006, passing on playing college football to attend USC.
Born on March 24, 1987, in Edina, Minn., Nate is the youngest son of head coach Pete Carroll. Married to Anna, the couple has two sons.