List of Washington Commanders head coaches

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Dan Quinn (2024–present) is the team's 31st head coach

This is a complete list of head coaches for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). There have been 30 head coaches for the team, including their time as the Boston Braves (1932), Boston Redskins (1933–1936), Washington Redskins (1937–2019), Washington Football Team (2020–2021), and Washington Commanders (2022–present).[1]

Joe Gibbs is the only coach to have more than one tenure.[2] Two different coaches have won NFL championships with the team: Ray Flaherty in 1937 and 1942, and Joe Gibbs in 1982, 1987 and 1991.[3] Gibbs is the all-time leader in games coached and wins, and Dudley DeGroot leads all coaches in winning percentage with .737.[4] Of all the coaches, seven have been elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame: Ray Flaherty, Turk Edwards, Curly Lambeau, Otto Graham, Vince Lombardi, George Allen, and Gibbs.[5]

Coaches

# Number of coaches[lower-alpha 1]
GC Games coached
W Wins
L Loses
T Ties
Win % Winning percentage
00† Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a coach
00‡ Elected into the Pro Football Hall of Fame as a player
00* Spent their entire NFL head coaching career with Washington
# Image Name Years Regular season Playoffs Awards Ref.
GC W L T Win% GC W L
Boston Braves
1 Lud Wray 1921.jpg Lud Wray 1932 10 4 4 2 .500 – [6]
Boston Redskins
2 60px Lone Star Dietz*[lower-alpha 2] 1933–1934* 24 11 11 2 .500 – [7]
3 Eddie Casey* 1935* 11 2 8 1 .200 – [8]
Washington Redskins
4 60px Ray Flaherty † 1936–1942 78 54 21 3 .720 4 2 2 [9]
5 60px Dutch Bergman* 1943* 10 6 3 1 .667 2 1 1 [10]
6 60px Dudley DeGroot*[lower-alpha 3] 1944–1945* 20 14 5 1 .737 1 0 1 [4]
7 Turk Edwards* ‡ 1946–1948* 35 16 18 1 .471 – [11]
8 John Esten Whelchel.jpg John Whelchel*[lower-alpha 4] 1949* 7 3 3 1 .500 – [12]
9 Herman Ball*[lower-alpha 5] 1949–1951* 20 4 16 0 .200 – [13]
10 Dick Todd - 1952 Bowman Large.jpg Dick Todd* 1951* 9 5 4 0 .556 – [14]
11 Lambeau 1940.jpg Curly Lambeau † 1952–1953 24 10 13 1 .435 – [15]
12 Joe Kuharich 1954–1958 60 26 32 2 .448 – Sporting News Coach of the Year (1955)
UPI NFL Coach of the Year (1955)[16]		 [17]
13 Mike Nixon 1959–1960 24 4 18 2 .182 – [18]
14 60px Bill McPeak* 1961–1965* 70 21 46 3 .313 – [19]
15 A photo of Otto Graham.jpg Otto Graham* ‡ 1966–1968* 42 17 22 3 .436 – [20]
16 60px Vince Lombardi †[lower-alpha 6] 1969 14 7 5 2 .583 – [21]
17 60px Bill Austin 1970 14 6 8 0 .429 – [22]
18 PCPFSChairmanGeorgeAllen-81-87.jpg George Allen † 1971–1977 98 67 30 1 .691 7 2 5 AP Coach of the Year (1971)
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1971)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1971)
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1971)[16]		 [23]
19 Jack Pardee as Houston Cougars head football coach.jpg Jack Pardee 1978–1980 48 24 24 0 .500 – AP Coach of the Year (1979)
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1979)		 [24]
20 Joe Gibbs at Dept of Education event, cropped.jpg Joe Gibbs*[lower-alpha 7] 1981–1992* 184 124 60 0 .674 21 16 5 AP Coach of the Year (1982, 1983)
Pro Football Weekly Coach of the Year (1982, 1983)
Sporting News Coach of the Year (1982, 1983, 1991)
UPI NFC Coach of the Year (1982)[16]		 [2]
21 Richie Petitbon* 1993* 16 4 12 0 .250 – [25]
22 60px Norv Turner 1994–2000 109 49 59 1 .454 2 1 1 [26]
23 Terry Robiskie 2013.jpg Terry Robiskie[lower-alpha 8] 2000 3 1 2 0 .333 – [27]
24 Marty Schottenheimer-Aug-11-2006-Autograph.jpg Marty Schottenheimer 2001 16 8 8 0 .500 – [28]
25 60px Steve Spurrier* 2002–2003* 32 12 20 0 .375 – [29]
– Joe Gibbs at Dept of Education event, cropped.jpg Joe Gibbs*[lower-alpha 7] 2004–2007* 64 30 34 0 .469 3 1 2 [2]
26 Coach Jim Zorn.jpg Jim Zorn* 2008–2009* 32 12 20 0 .375 – [30]
27 60px Mike Shanahan 2010–2013 64 24 40 0 .375 1 0 1 [31]
28 60px Jay Gruden*[lower-alpha 9] 2014–2019 85 35 49 1 .418 1 0 1 [32]
29 Bill Callahan (American football).jpg Bill Callahan 2019 11 3 8 0 .273 0 0 0 [33]
Washington Football Team / Commanders
30 60px Ron Rivera 2020–2023 67 26 40 1 .396 1 0 1 George Halas Award (2022) [34]
30 60px Dan Quinn 2024–present 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 0 [35]

Footnotes

Notes

  1. ↑ A running total of the number of coaches of the Redskins. Thus any coach who has two terms as head coach is only counted once.
  2. ↑ George Preston Marshall, owner and founder of the franchise, sought to rename the Boston Braves after leaving the stadium they shared with the baseball team of the same name. He chose the name Redskins in honor of Dietz, who was Sioux.
  3. ↑ DeGroot was a member of the United States rugby team that won an Olympic gold medal during the 1924 competition in Paris.
  4. ↑ Fired after seven games
  5. ↑ Fired after three games in the 1951 season.
  6. ↑ Lombardi died before the start of the 1970 season.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Gibbs full coaching record with the Redskins is 248 regular season games coached with a record of 154–94–0 and a W–L percentage of .621. He is also 17–7 in 24 Playoff games.
  8. ↑ Took over for last 3 games of the season.
  9. ↑ Fired five games into the 2019 season, with Bill Callahan taking over for the rest of the year.

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