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After winning a national title, it’s beginning to look like Ohio State football head coach Ryan Day might be staring at his most challenging staffing rebuild ever. Since beating Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff National Championship Game, Day quickly lost defensive coordinator, Jim Knowles to Penn State, Justin Frye to the Arizona Cardinals, and now a major hit has followed. According to multiple reports, OSU offensive coordinator, Chip Kelly, is headed back to the NFL with the Las Vegas Raiders as their offensive coordinator.
It was a short stint in Columbus, but a very, very productive one for Kelly. He joined the Ohio State staff in the offseason of 2024 after newly hired OSU offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien left to take the head coaching job at Boston College. Kelly was reunited with his long-time protégé, Ryan Day, and directed a Buckeye offense that was one of the most explosive in the country. It was Day’s first attempt at bringing in a play caller to take pressure off of his duties as a head coach.
Kelly helped direct an offense that averaged 35.7 points per game, good for a tie as the No. 12 scoring offense in the country. Quarterback Will Howard flourished under Kelly as well, having completed a program record 73.1% of his passes in 2024 and finishing the season as No. 7 best Total QBR rated quarterback in the country.
Kelly’s career arc has been a winding one. He gained fame as Oregon’s head coach from 2009 to 2012, where he helped direct an offense that was often one of the tops in the country, He then had a short stint in the NFL as a head coach with the Philadelphia Eagles from 2013 to 2016, and with the San Francisco 49ers in 2017. Kelly then returned the college game as head coach of UCLA from 2018 to 2023 before joining the Buckeyes.
Ohio State now must turn its attention to replacing…
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Author : Buckeyes Wire
Publish date : 2025-02-02 23:12:00
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