Tom Brady is expected to be more involved with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2026. What exactly does that look like?

As a minority owner, you really only take on a small role. It’s clear that with someone like Tom Brady, it doesn’t stop at showing up at home games and waving at the camera.

Brady’s role is bigger. But it also remains something of a mystery.

Brady has of course been heavily involved with the Las Vegas Raiders since he officially acquired shares in October 2024.

But since then it has been unclear exactly what this role looks like. How much influence does he actually have? How many decisions is he involved in? What might have been entirely down to him? There is a lot of speculation about this, but hardly anything is concrete.

He has stated in the past, for example, that he is there “as support”. “I’m a good sounding board for anything they want to do,” he said in 2025.

Which can mean everything and nothing.

After the “Flag Football Classic,” where Brady was on the field, he was asked specifically over the weekend how different his role would be, as general manager John Spytek had stated Brady would be more involved this year.

“I still love being a part of the NFL,” Brady said. “I love football, I love the sport. I’ve been very fortunate in my career to work with some extraordinary people and mentors, like Robert Kraft as a team owner. And now working with Mark Davis in my current role gives me a completely different perspective: to see how a team develops, how processes work, how organizations grow. And it’s also clear that we still have a long way to go.”

Las Vegas Raiders not very successful with Brady

In fact, success has been limited since Brady joined the team. 2024 saw a 4-13 season, 2025 was no better with a 3-14 record. Pete Carroll, newly installed in 2025, is already gone again, now Klint Kubiak is supposed to fix it.

“What I have learned in 23 years of football is above all this: It takes a tremendous amount of resilience, dealing with setbacks, discipline, determination and communication – and that within the entire organization. It’s crucial that everyone commits to each other and pulls together,” Brady continued.

For him, the process is always more important than the result. “Everyone tries to contribute the maximum in their role – whether at owner level, in management, in the athletics and coaching staff or on the pitch. In the end, it only works if everyone comes together and is prepared to work extremely hard for each other.”

He left the exact nature of his role open at the end of the day.

Written by Max