Rick Christophel
![]() Christophel in 2014 | |
Tampa Bay Buccaneers | |
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Position: | Senior offensive assistant |
Personal information | |
Born: | Reading, Ohio, U.S. | October 27, 1952
Career information | |
High school: | Reading |
College: | Austin Peay |
Career history | |
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Career highlights and awards | |
Head coaching record | |
Regular season: | 20–46 (.303) |
Career: | 20–46 (.303) |
Rick Scott Christophel (born October 27, 1952) is an American football coach and former player. He is currently the senior offensive assistant for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers of the National Football League (NFL). In college, he was a quarterback for Austin Peay State University from 1971 to 1974. He also previously served as head football coach at Austin Peay from 2007 to 2012, compiling a record of 20–46.
College career
[edit]Christophel was the starting quarterback at Austin Peay from 1971 to 1974. After a year as a graduate assistant at his alma mater, he spent three seasons coaching at Highlands High School in Fort Thomas, Kentucky from 1976 to 1978. He returned to Austin Peay as an assistant coach for three seasons (1979 to 1981), before making coaching stops at Southern Arkansas State (1982), Cincinnati (1983), Rice (1984 to 1985), and Vanderbilt (1986 to 1990). He then was an assistant coach at Mississippi State from 1991 to 1994, where he worked under Bruce Arians, who became the offensive coordinator there in 1993.. He then moved to the University of Alabama at Birmingham, where he spent 12 seasons, from 1995 to 2006, before returning to Austin Peay as head coach in 2007.[1][2]
Head coaching record
[edit]Year | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Bowl/playoffs | ||||
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Austin Peay Governors (Ohio Valley Conference) (2007–2012) | |||||||||
2007 | Austin Peay | 7–4 | 5–3 | T–3rd | |||||
2008 | Austin Peay | 2–9 | 2–6 | 8th | |||||
2009 | Austin Peay | 4–7 | 3–5 | 6th | |||||
2010 | Austin Peay | 2–9 | 1–7 | 8th | |||||
2011 | Austin Peay | 3–8 | 2–6 | T–7th | |||||
2012 | Austin Peay | 2–9 | 1–7 | T–8th | |||||
Austin Peay: | 20–46 | 14–34 | |||||||
Total: | 20–46 |
National Football League coaching career
[edit]Arizona Cardinals
[edit]Christophel worked with the Arizona Cardinals[3] from 2013 to 2017, serving as the team's tight ends coach under Arians' again. In 2017, he helped develop rookie free agent Ricky Seals-Jones a college wide receiver who he helped convert into a tight end. He briefly retired after that year.[4]
Tampa Bay Buccaneers
[edit]In 2019 Christophel again became a tight ends coach under Bruce Arians, this time with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.[5][4] He was a member of the coaching staff when the Buccaneers won Super Bowl LV in February 2021, and as of 2022, he is the team's senior offensive assistant coach.[6][1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Rick Christophel – Biography". Tampa Bay Buccaneers. January 19, 2023.
- ^ Bush, Cody. "Govs alumnus and Tampa Bay assistant Rick Christophel set for Super Bowl stage". Retrieved January 19, 2023.
- ^ "Austin Peay Governors football coach Rick Christophel accepts job with Arizona Cardinals". Clarksville, TN Online. January 23, 2013. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ a b "Bruce Arians' Bucs staff has Arizona Cardinals, Temple influences". ESPN.com. January 30, 2019. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Rick Christophel named tight ends coach for Tampa Bay Buccaneers". Austin Peay State University Athletics. Retrieved May 20, 2020.
- ^ "Super Bowl LV - Tampa Bay Buccaneers vs. Kansas City Chiefs - February 7th, 2021". Pro-Football-Reference.com. Retrieved February 19, 2023.
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