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,

Now, NFL Network's Ian Rapoport has confirmed the Raiders-Johnson buzz on an episode of The Insiders. "The people who are associated with the Raiders' job," Rapoport said. "I'm ta