{"id":1826,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/1826","headline":"Russell Wilson interviews for NC State head coaching job","dek":"The former NFL quarterback joins Philip Rivers as a candidate in the Wolfpack's coaching search.","body":"Russell Wilson sat down with NC State on Tuesday to discuss the program's vacant head coaching job, according to sources, putting the former NFL quarterback in the mix alongside Philip Rivers for a search that had largely been framed around Rivers.\n\nWilson has no college or NFL head coaching experience, so the interview counts as a notable twist in a process that was expected to center on Rivers, himself a star quarterback with no coaching background either. Neither Wilson nor NC State has publicly commented on the specifics of the conversation.\n\nIt remains unclear how seriously NC State is considering Wilson compared to other candidates, or what a realistic timeline looks like for filling the position. For now, the school has two accomplished former NFL passers with zero coaching résumés on its radar, which is either a bold departure from convention or a sign the search still has room to run.","published_at":"2026-11-04T22:35:37.438718+00:00","source_count":4,"written_from":[{"outlet":"ESPN","publisher":"ESPN","title":"Sources: Ex-QB Wilson interviews with NC State, joins Rivers as HC candidate","url":"https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/50373951/russell-wilson-interviews-nc-state-head-coaching-job"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NC State interviewed a former star QB for coach. It's not the one you think","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nc-state-interviewed-former-star-005613782.html"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Report: Russell Wilson interviews for NC State head-coaching job","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/report-russell-wilson-interviews-for-nc-state-head-coaching-job"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Russell Wilson reportedly joins Philip Rivers in interviewing for NC State head coaching job","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/college-football/breaking-news/article/russell-wilson-reportedly-joins-philip-rivers-in-interviewing-for-nc-state-head-coaching-job-004709010.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Report: Russell Wilson interviews for NC State head-coaching job","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/report-russell-wilson-interviews-nc-005540781.html"},{"outlet":"New York Post","publisher":"New York Post","title":"Russell Wilson interviews for NC State coaching job in major twist amid Philip Rivers flirtation","url":"https://nypost.com/2026/11/03/sports/russell-wilson-interviews-for-nc-state-head-coaching-job/"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Former Steelers QB Russell Wilson Interviews for NC State Coaching Job","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/former-steelers-qb-russell-wilson-053349036.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NC State Interviews Super Bowl Champion as Philip Rivers Gets Familiar Competition","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nc-state-interviews-super-bowl-053559603.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"‘Worst search of all time’ – Fans have their say after Russell Wilson interviews to be a CFB head coach","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/worst-search-time-fans-russell-061418539.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Russell Wilson interviews for NC State coaching job in major twist amid Philip Rivers flirtation","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/russell-wilson-interviews-nc-state-022034515.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Russell Wilson takes first step towards NC State coaching job after CBS move","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/russell-wilson-takes-first-step-072158384.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NC State reportedly interviewed Russell Wilson for head coaching job","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nc-state-reportedly-interviewed-russell-122400135.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Philip Rivers is assembling a potential NC State staff. This is getting real","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/philip-rivers-assembling-potential-nc-201457055.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://nbcsports.brightspotcdn.com/dims4/default/421fbdb/2147483647/strip/false/crop/1920x1080+0+0/resize/1920x1080!/quality/90/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fhdliveextra-a.akamaihd.net%2FHD%2Fimage_sports%2FNBCU_Sports_Group_-_nbcsports%2F461%2F731%2Fnbc_pft_seahawkstrade_261103.jpg","credit":"Pro Football Talk","width":1920},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}