Jerry Neuheisel is leaving residence to go work for somebody acquainted.
The longtime UCLA assistant who was born on the college’s medical middle, performed quarterback for the Bruins and rose to de facto offensive coordinator final season will rejoin former boss Chip Kelly in a brand new position at Northwestern.
Neuheisel has agreed to grow to be the quarterbacks coach beneath Kelly, who will function the Wildcats’ offensive coordinator after being fired late final season from the identical position with the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders.
Kelly has lengthy been a mentor to Neuheisel, bringing him to UCLA as a graduate assistant in 2018 and selling him to broad receivers coach in 2021. After Kelly left to grow to be Ohio State’s offensive coordinator earlier than the 2024 season, Neuheisel served as tight ends coach beneath coach DeShaun Foster. Neuheisel then took over as offensive coordinator 4 video games into final season upon the departures of Foster and offensive coordinator Tino Sunseri.
The change helped spark a three-game midseason profitable streak through which the Bruins upset then-No. 7 Penn State and averaged 33.3 factors throughout victories over the Nittany Lions, Michigan State and Maryland.
Neuheisel, 33, was carried off the sector after the Bruins beat Penn State in a scene paying homage to the celebration after he got here off the bench to guide UCLA to a street victory over Texas in 2014 by throwing a 33-yard landing cross to Jordan Payton.
After spending his ultimate faculty season as a backup to Josh Rosen, Neuheisel performed professionally for the Obic Seagulls of Japan’s X League in 2016. He began his teaching profession in 2017 as an offensive high quality management coach at Texas A&M earlier than coming again to his alma mater the subsequent 12 months.
Having lengthy stated he dreamed of being the pinnacle coach at UCLA, Neuheisel’s newest transfer might be yet one more step towards one other return.
