Report: Alabama Leaning Toward Promoting From Within For New Offensive Coordinator

Alabama head coach Kalen DeBoer is already looking for his second offensive coordinator after Ryan Grubb's departure for the NFL.

The Alabama Crimson Tide football program is looking for its best "Plan B" at offensive coordinator after Ryan Grubb left the program this past weekend to take the same position with the Seattle Seahawks.

Grubb sends new head coach Kalen DeBoer into search mode just a few short weeks after taking the job in Tuscaloosa.

According to reporting from Matt Zenitz of 247Sports the current plan seems to be for DeBoer to promote Nick Sheridan from tight ends coach to offensive coordinator.

Sheridan has been with DeBoer in two different stops. He served as tight ends coach at Indiana in 2019 and had been tight ends coach at Washington the last two seasons.

His only coordinator experience to date so far came with the Indiana Hoosiers where he served as quarterbacks coach and coordinator from 2020-21.

The 35-year old walked on in Ann Arbor in 2006 eventually earning himself a scholarship. He started four games for Michigan in 2008 and then began his coaching career as a graduate assistant for Willie Taggert at Western Kentucky.

After two seasons with the Hilltoppers he went to South Florida with Taggert to serve as the quarterbacks coach and passing game coordinator. Sheridan then got his first taste of SEC action working as a graduate assistant for the Tennessee Volunteers under Butch Jones.

Indiana hired him in 2017 to serve as quarterbacks coach, making it his first Power 5 position coaching position. He stayed with the Hoosiers in multiple capacities until DeBoer hired him to his own staff with the Washington Huskies.

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