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STATE COLLEGE, Pa. – Penn State football coach James Franklin announced the addition of Stan Drayton as the program’s next running backs coach.
“Stan Drayton brings decades of experience coaching running backs at the highest levels to our program,” Franklin said. “He is an important addition to our staff. His experience as a head coach and working alongside elite backs in his career will be invaluable to our running backs room. I am so excited to welcome Stan and his family, including his wife, Monique, and daughters, Amari and Anaya, to Happy Valley.”
“I am excited and honored to be joining this elite organization led by Coach Franklin,” Drayton said. “I have so much respect for the culture and program he has built here. Penn State has a rich running back tradition and a very talented running back room now. I am thrilled for this opportunity and am looking forward to getting to work.”
Drayton, a native of Cleveland, joins the Nittany Lions after spending three seasons as the head coach at Temple. He is a 32-year coaching veteran with 25 years of experience coaching running backs. Drayton has been a part of two national championship coaching staffs and brings five years of NFL coaching experience.
During his coaching career, Drayton has tutored prominent running backs, including Brian Westbrook, Jerious Norwood, Carlos Hyde, Ezekiel Elliott, Bijan Robinson, Matt Forte and Jordan Howard. He has coached seven 1,000-yard rushers, five NFL draft picks and two All-Americans.
Prior to Temple, Drayton was the associate head coach, running backs coach and run game coordinator at Texas for five seasons under Tom Herman (2017-20) and Steve Sarkisian (2021).
In his five seasons with the Longhorns, Drayton guided the development of a trio of backs who made significant impacts in Bijan Robinson, Roschon Johnson and Keaontay…
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Author : The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa.
Publish date : 2025-02-15 04:59:00
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