Kenny Guiton
Kenny Guiton (born June 27, 1991) is a former American football quarterback and current college football coach. He is currently the passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach for Colorado State. After being an undrafted free agent in the 2014 NFL Draft, he was invited to mini-camp with the Buffalo Bills in 2014.[1] He played college football at The Ohio State University. He became a coach in 2015 and has held positions at Houston, Texas, Louisiana Tech, and Colorado State.
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Passing game coordinator & wide receivers coach |
| Team | Colorado State |
| Conference | Mountain West |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | June 27, 1991 Houston, Texas |
| Playing career | |
| 2009–2013 | Ohio State |
| 2014 | Los Angeles KISS |
| 2014 | Buffalo Bills |
| Position(s) | Quarterback |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 2015–2016 | Houston (GA) |
| 2017 | Texas (QC/WR) |
| 2017–2018 | Houston (WR) |
| 2019 | Louisiana Tech (OWR) |
| 2020-present | Colorado State (PGC/WR) |
College career
2012 season
Kenny Guiton would see his first meaningful playing time in the eighth game of the 2012 season. Trailing Purdue 14-20 late in the third quarter, Guiton was brought in to replace injured Braxton Miller.[2] Down 14-22 with less than a minute remaining, Guiton lead the Buckeye offence on 61 yard drive, capped off with a touchdown pass to Chris Fields and a game tying two-point conversion pass to Jeff Heuerman. The Buckeyes would prevail 29-22 in overtime, preserving an unblemished 8-0 record in a season that Ohio State would finish 12-0.
2013 Season
In the second game of the season against San Diego State, Guiton would again be called upon to replace an injured Braxton Miller. Guiton played the remainder of the game and would start the subsequent next two games, all Buckeye victories.
In his second start, Guiton set an Ohio State single-game record with a six touchdown pass first-half performance against Florida A&M.[3]
Statistics
Guiton's statistics are as follows:[4]
| Season | Passing | Rushing | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Comp | Att | Yards | Pct. | TD | Int | QB Rating | Att | Yards | Avg | TD | |
| 2009 | |||||||||||
| 2010 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 50.0 | 0 | 1 | -29.0 | 4 | 12 | 5.3 | 1 |
| 2011 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 | 0 | -- | 0 |
| 2012 | 13 | 23 | 139 | 56.5 | 2 | 1 | 127.3 | 9 | 32 | 3.6 | 0 |
| 2013 | 75 | 109 | 749 | 68.8 | 14 | 2 | 165.2 | 40 | 330 | 8.3 | 5 |
| NCAA Career Totals | 89 | 134 | 893 | 66.4 | 16 | 4 | 155.8 | 53 | 383 | 7.2 | 6 |
Professional career
After failing to earn a contract with the Buffalo Bills following their mini-camp, Guiton was assigned to the Los Angeles KISS of the Arena Football League.[5] Guiton started his first game for the KISS on July 6, 2014, against the San Jose SaberCats.[6] Guiton was reassigned by the KISS on December 4, 2014.
Coaching career
Following his playing career Guiton entered the coaching profession, serving as a graduate assistant at the University of Houston under his former offensive coordinator at Ohio State and Houston head coach, Tom Herman. On December 29, 2016, he followed Herman to the University of Texas, where he served as an offensive quality control assistant in charge of wide receivers. In April 2017, Guiton was hired as the wide receivers coach for the University of Houston.[7]
After two seasons with Houston, he was first hired in the offseason by Stephen F. Austin to be their outside wide receivers coach, but was lured to Louisiana Tech to serve in the same role.[8]
Following the 2019 season with Louisiana Tech, he was hired by Colorado State to be their pass game coordinator and wide receivers coach.
References
- Mike Rodak (May 16, 2014). "Kenny Guiton among Bills' rookie tryouts". www.espn.go.com. ESPN Internet Ventures. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
- "Purdue vs Ohio State - Game Summary - October 20, 2012". www.espn.com. ESPN. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- "Florida A&M vs Ohio State - Game Summary - September 21, 2013". www.espn.com. ESPN. Retrieved October 5, 2018.
- "Kenny Guiton". www.sports-reference.com. USA TODAY Sports Digital Properties. Retrieved October 27, 2014.
- Hayden Grove (June 4, 2014). "Former Ohio State quarterback Kenny Guiton signs with AFL's LA KISS". www.thelantern.com. The Lantern. Retrieved June 23, 2014.
- "Archived copy". Archived from the original on July 27, 2014. Retrieved July 17, 2014.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- UH parts ways with Darrell Wyatt, hires Kenny Guiton by Joseph Duarte. Houston Chronicle, April 21, 2017. Retrieved April 23, 2017.
- https://latechsports.com/sports/football/roster/coaches/kenny-guiton/497