For the second straight year, the Las Vegas Raiders are on the hunt for a new head coach. Antonio Pierce was fired after one full year on the job, and now the Raiders are hoping that with Tom Brady as a minority owner, they can land a solid head coaching option to compete with the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West.

Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is the top head coaching candidate in this year's hiring cycle and was one of the interviewees for the Jacksonville Jaguars vacancy. However, as Vincent Bonsignore of the Las Vegas Review Journal described,

Though the Raiders are interviewing a bunch of candidates and will do their research before naming their next head coach, it's clear that Detroit Lions offensive coordinator Ben Johnson is the franchise's No.