Alabama is about to rent Ryan Grubb as offensive coordinator, reuniting him with Crimson Tide coach Kalen DeBoer, sources advised ESPN.
Grubb served as offensive coordinator underneath DeBoer at Washington in 2022 and 2023, and was set to hitch him at Alabama in the identical function for the 2024 season. However Grubb as a substitute remained in Seattle because the Seahawks‘ offensive coordinator, a job he held till final month.
DeBoer had Nick Sheridan function offensive coordinator in 2024 with JaMarcus Shephard as co-offensive coordinator. Each Sheridan and Shephard joined DeBoer from the Washington employees and labored with Grubb.
Grubb will once more oversee the offense, which he additionally did underneath DeBoer at Fresno State in 2020 and 2021. The 2 first labored collectively in 2007 on the College of Sioux Falls, an NAIA faculty and DeBoer’s alma mater.
They later labored collectively as assistants at Japanese Michigan and Fresno State, the place Grubb remained on employees after DeBoer left to develop into Indiana‘s offensive coordinator.
Alabama’s NIL collective, Yea Alabama, first reported Grubb’s rent.
In 2023, Washington reached the nationwide title sport and completed No. 2 nationally in passing, as quarterback Michael Penix Jr. was the Heisman Trophy runner-up and have become an NFL first-round draft decide.
Alabama might be changing multiyear beginning quarterback Jalen Milroe and others from a unit that completed twenty second nationally in scoring and forty second in yards per sport.