Virginia Tech hires Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Tyler Bowen as offensive coordinator

Virginia Tech formally hired Tyler Bowen as its offensive coordinator and restricted finishes coach Monday, leaving 1 assistant position however to be stuffed on Brent Pry’s first Hokies workers. The 32-year-aged Bowen will come to Blacksburg from the Jacksonville Jaguars, where by he coached limited finishes this period. The Jaguars concluded their year Sunday.

Bowen and Pry go back again to Penn Point out, exactly where Bowen started as a graduate assistant in 2014 and returned as restricted ends mentor and offensive recruiting coordinator in 2018-19 before he included a co-offensive coordinator title in 2020 with Kirk Ciarrocca.

Bowen was an offensive lineman at Maryland from 2007 to 09, enjoying for then-offensive coordinator James Franklin. Joe Moorhead hired him at Fordham in 2015 as an offensive line mentor, with Bowen assuming offensive coordinator duties in 2016 right after Moorhead remaining for Penn State.

Besides his yr at Fordham as offensive coordinator, when the Rams averaged 40.1 details for each sport, Bowen known as plays one other time — on an interim basis in the Nittany Lions’ 53-39 Cotton Bowl win towards Memphis in 2019 immediately after offensive coordinator Ricky Rahne left for the head coaching job at Previous Dominion. Penn Condition ran for 396 yards and 5 touchdowns in that game.

That makes 9 of 10 on-area assistant positions Pry has crammed at Tech. Only receivers mentor remains vacant.

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