The Las Vegas Raiders requested interviews with executives John Spytek of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Jon-Eric Sullivan of the Green Bay Packers for their general manager job.

Spytek is in his second season as the Bucs assistant GM and ninth year in the organization. Tampa Bay won the NFC South for the fourth year in a row before being eliminated Sunday in the playoffs by the Washington Commanders.

Sullivan is in his third season as the Packers vice president of player personnel and has been in the organization since 2018. Green Bay has made the playoffs five of the past seven seasons and lost Sunday to the Philadelphia Eagles.

The Raiders are searching for a replacement for Tom Telesco, who was fired after just one season.

STEELERS WRAPUP >> There is a sameness to the way the Pittsburgh Steelers keep ending their seasons.

Yet Mike Tomlin shrugged when asked if it feels as if the Steelers are “stuck” after their fifth first-round playoff exit in eight years, all of them embarrassing in their own way.

“Stuck is kind of a helpless feeling,” the NFL’s longest-tenured coach said. “And I don’t know that I feel helpless.”

Maybe, but Tomlin also made it a point to not look for silver linings after Pittsburgh’s promising start ended with a thud, culminated by a 28-14 beatdown at the hands of Baltimore on Saturday in which the Steelers were never really in the game.

“I definitely don’t feel in the mood for optimism or the selling of optimism,” he said. “I don’t know that that’s appropriate. You know, it’s disappointing not to be working. And so that’s where we are.”

Which is where Pittsburgh has frequently been for most of the past decade: cleaning out its lockers and sifting through the ashes of what went wrong once the calendar flipped to January.

And while changes are certainly coming to the coaching staff — most likely on defense after the Steelers were gashed during a five-game freefall through the standings — Tomlin doesn’t appear to be going anywhere as he enters the first season of a three-year extension he signed last June.

Tomlin said he believes he’s still “capable” of helping Pittsburgh end its longest playoff victory drought since the “Immaculate Reception” more than a half-century ago.

Yet he also finds himself entering a third offseason in four years with questions at quarterback while playing in a conference that is loaded with perennial MVP candidates at the most important position on the field in Kansas City’s Patrick Mahomes, Baltimore’s Lamar Jackson and Buffalo’s Josh Allen, all of whom are still playing.

The Steelers are not. And they have only one quarterback under contract for 2025 after signing former Miami Dolphin Skylar Thompson on Tuesday. Russell Wilson, Justin Fields and Kyle Allen — all of whom played during the 2024 season — are all scheduled to become free agents when the new league year begins in March.

While Wilson and Fields both expressed interest in returning and Tomlin said the team is “open to considering those guys,” there’s also the very real chance they begin 2025 with their fifth different Week 1 starter in as many seasons.

Though the offense made progress — particularly during a midseason stretch in which Wilson won six of his first seven starts — the Steelers averaged just 14.2 points during their late swoon.