The Washington Commanders have turned to another internal hire to fill the passing game coordinator vacancy left by Brian Johnson
The Washington Commanders have finalized another coaching hire with another promotion to fill a key vacancy on the offensive staff.
Head coach Dan Quinn is promoting David Raih to the team's new passing game coordinator, filling the vacancy left by Brian Johnson, who became a senior offensive analyst for the Los Angeles Rams under head coach Sean McVay this offseason.
This marks the latest promotion for Washington's revamped 2026 coaching staff after shifting Darnell Stapleton to the new offensive line coach and Shane Toub to assistant offensive line coach. This also marks Raih's first time in his current role, though adds experience and familiarity to the offensive staff in year three under Dan Quinn.
Like Johnson, Raih was also among the internal candidates who interviewed for the vacant offensive coordinator role before David Blough got the nod.
The news comes days after head coach Dan Quinn noted the team was "probably a day or two away" from finalizing the 2026 coaching staff while noting the ongoing meetings with new coordinators, David Blough and Daronte Jones, ahead of free agency and the NFL Draft.
"There's some good energy hat comes from that because you're actually starting at the beginning to say, well, this is why we're going to call this this and this is how we want to play this," Quinn said at the NFL Combine. "And so, I like that feeling of what that is and I like what I'm seeing so far from them."
Raih first joined the organization as the tight ends coach in 2024 where he served for two seasons before moving into a passing game coordinator role beginning today. Raih previously served as a senior offensive analyst for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2023 while his first NFL job came with the Green Bay Packers where he served as a coaching administrator for two seasons beginning in 2014 then moving to assistant offensive line coach in 2016, offensive perimeter coach in 2017 then wide receivers coach in 2018.
He also served as the wide receivers coach for the Arizona Cardinals from 2019 to 2020 under Kliff Kingsbury. It marked Raih's second reunion with the former Commander offensive coordinator after he previously served as both assistant quarterbacks and outside wide receivers coach with Texas Tech back in 2013. He began his coaching career as an intern with the UCLA Bruins back in 2008 before moving to a grad assistant role with Iowa in 2010, then shifting to Texas Tech.