Report: Alabama Sees New Offensive Coordinator to Be Promoted From Within
Ryan Grubb departed the Alabama Crimson Tide football program this past weekend to take a similar role with the Seattle Seahawks; thus, the team is searching for its best “Plan B” at offensive coordinator.
Only a few weeks after assuming the Tuscaloosa job, Grubb puts incoming head coach Kalen DeBoer in search mode.
The current strategy appears to be for DeBoer to elevate Nick Sheridan from tight ends coach to offensive coordinator, per Matt Zenitz of 247Sports.
Sheridan has made two separate visits with DeBoer. He had been the tight ends coach at Washington for the previous two seasons, and he was the tight ends coach at Indiana in 2019.
He was the quarterbacks coach and coordinator for the Indiana Hoosiers from 2020–21, which is the only coordinator experience he has had thus far.
In 2006, the 35-year-old continued his education in Ann Arbor and eventually won a scholarship. After making four starts for Michigan in 2008, he joined Western Kentucky as a graduate assistant coach under Willie Taggert.
He left the Hilltoppers after two seasons to work as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach in South Florida alongside Taggert. Later, while working as a graduate assistant for the Tennessee Volunteers under Butch Jones, Sheridan experienced his first taste of SEC play.
In 2017, Indiana hired him to be the quarterbacks coach, which was his first job as a Power 5 coach. He remained with the Hoosiers in a variety of roles until DeBoer brought him into the Washington Huskies on his own staff.
