Rick Christophel

Rick Scott Christophel (born October 27, 1952) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the tight ends coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL), a position he has held since January 2019. He previously served as head football coach at Austin Peay State University from 2007 to 2012, compiling a record of 20–46.

Rick Christophel
Christophel in 2014
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Position:Tight ends coach
Personal information
Born: (1952-10-27) October 27, 1952
Reading, Ohio
Career information
High school:Reading (OH)
College:Austin Peay
Career history
As coach:
  • Austin Peay (1975)
    Graduate assistant
  • Highlands HS (Fort Thomas, KY) (1976–1978)
    Assistant
  • Austin Peay (1979–1981)
    Running backs
  • Southern Arkansas (1982)
    offensive coordinator
  • Cincinnati (1983)
    Quarterbacks/Tight ends
  • Rice (1984–1985)
    Quarterbacks/running backs
  • Vanderbilt (1986–1988)
    Offensive line
  • Vanderbilt (1989)
    Defensive Coordinator/middle linebackers
  • Vanderbilt (1990)
    Offensive line/Assistant head coach
  • Mississippi State (1991–1994)
    Wide receivers
  • UAB (1995)
    Offensive Coordinator/running backs
  • UAB (1996–1998)
    Wide receivers
  • UAB (1999)
    Offensive line/Tight ends
  • UAB (2000)
    Wide receivers
  • UAB (2001)
    Defensive Coordinator
  • UAB (2004)
    Offensive line/defensive line
  • UAB (2005)
    Defensive line/Assistant head coach
  • UAB (2006)
    Defensive Coordinator
  • Austin Peay (2007–2012)
    Head Coach
  • Arizona Cardinals (2013–2017)
    Tight ends
  • Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2019–present)
    Tight ends
Head coaching record
Regular season:20–46 (.303)
Career:20–46 (.303)

Head coaching record
Year Team Overall ConferenceStanding Bowl/playoffs
Austin Peay Governors (Ohio Valley Conference) (2007–2012)
2007 Austin Peay 7–45–3T–3rd
2008 Austin Peay 2–92–68th
2009 Austin Peay 4–73–56th
2010 Austin Peay 2–91–78th
2011 Austin Peay 3–82–6T–7th
2012 Austin Peay 2–91–7T–8th
Austin Peay: 20–4614–34
Total:20–46

NFL Coaching

Arizona Cardinals

Christophel worked with the Arizona Cardinals [1]from 2013-2017, serving as the team's tight ends coach. In 2017, Christophel helped develop rookie free agent Ricky Seals-Jones a college wide receiver who he helped convert into a tight end.He would briefly retire after that year.[2]

Tampa Bay Buccaneers

In 2019 Christophel would once again coach under Bruce Arians [3]this time however it would be with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.[2]

gollark: Versus stone, I mean.
gollark: Since flint is slightly hard to get.
gollark: If you use a flint *head*, you may have problems.
gollark: I like to make all of my tools with weird unique configurations which *kind of* make sense for no good reason.
gollark: And arguably for later-game stuff like axes you won't use much.

References
  1. January 23; 2013 | (January 23, 2013). "Austin Peay Governors football coach Rick Christophel accepts job with Arizona Cardinals". Clarksville, TN Online. Retrieved May 20, 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  2. "Bruce Arians' Bucs staff has Arizona Cardinals, Temple influences". ESPN.com. January 30, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
  3. "Rick Christophel named tight ends coach for Tampa Bay Buccaneers". Austin Peay State University Athletics. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.