GAINESVILLE — Florida football Billy Napier continues to retool his offensive staff as the Gators prepare to open spring practices March 7.
Napier has hired veteran coach Dan Enos as an analyst and promoted tight ends coach Russ Callaway to serve as co-offensive coordinator with offensive line coach Rob Sale, the Orlando Sentinel confirmed. Among his duties, Enos will focus on advanced scouting and head coach projects.
Jacob Rudner of 247Sports first reported both moves.
Enos served as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2023 at Arkansas, where he held the same role in 2015-17. But coach Sam Pittman demoted him last season after the Razorbacks’ 2-6 start.
The well-traveled Enos was offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Maryland in 2021-22 and Miami in 2019; coached running backs at Cincinnati in 2020; and coached quarterbacks for Nick Saban in 2018 at Alabama.
Enos began coaching as a graduate assistant under Saban in 1991-93 at Michigan State. UF will for the 18th stop at 15 schools for the 55-year-old.
Meanwhile, Callaway enters his third season with the Gators and second as tight ends coach; he joined the staff in 2022 in an off-the-field role. The 36-year-old served as Samford’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach from 2016-19 after coaching the wide receivers from 2015-17.
In 2018, Samford led the FCS in average passing yards (392.7).
Napier said he planned Callaway’s role in the offense.
“He’s a guy that obviously is going to acquire more responsibility,” Napier said Feb. 7. “How we define that … we’ll work our way through that.”
Napier still has an opening after offensive line assistant coach Darnell Stapleton left Feb. 15 for the NFL’s Washington Commanders. Stapleton and Sale coached in tandem, a unique approach Napier might well continue based on past history.
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Author : Orlando Sentinel
Publish date : 2024-02-27 21:04:00
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