Nick Holz

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Nick Holz
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Holz with the Tennessee Titans in 2024
Tennessee Titans
Position: Offensive coordinator
Personal information
Born: (1984-03-26) March 26, 1984 (age 39)
Walnut Creek, California, U.S.
Height:5 ft 11 in (1.80 m)
Weight:180 lb (82 kg)
Career information
High school: De La Salle (Concord, California)
College: Colorado (2002–2006)
Undrafted: 2007
Career history
As a coach:
Coaching stats at PFR

Nick Holz (born March 26, 1984) is an American football coach and former player who is the offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes and has previously been a coach with the Nebraska Cornhuskers, Stanford Cardinal, Oakland / Las Vegas Raiders UNLV Rebels and Jacksonville Jaguars.

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Early life

Holz was born on March 26, 1984, in Walnut Creek, California. [1] He grew up in Danville, California, and attended De La Salle High School in Concord, being teammates with Maurice Jones-Drew. [2] [3] He played football as a wide receiver at De La Salle and was named the team's Most Inspirational Player as a senior, helping them win the state championship while having 10 receptions for 93 yards. [1]

Holz was a walk-on with the Colorado Buffaloes. [4] He redshirted in 2002, saw no action in 2003, and then became the team's starting holder in 2004, a position he stayed in for his final three years. [1] He became known as the holder for Mason Crosby for three years and was the first three-year holder at Colorado in 20 years. [2] [3] He caught his only three career passes for 29 yards in 2006 and won The Regiment Award for being the Colorado player with the "greatest contribution with the least recognition." [2] [3]

Coaching career

After having graduated from Colorado following the 2006 season, Holz joined the Nebraska Cornhuskers in 2007 as a video intern and offensive quality control coach, having a connection to head coach Bill Callahan, whose son Holz was teammates with in high school. [3] [5] [6] The following year, he became an offensive and operations assistant with the Stanford Cardinal; he also was an assistant quarterbacks coach, working with Andrew Luck. [3] [7]

After four years at Stanford, Holz became an offensive assistant with the Oakland Raiders (later Las Vegas Raiders) of the National Football League (NFL) in 2012. [8] He was able to coach his high school teammate Maurice Jones-Drew in the 2014 season. [4] He was one of only two assistant coaches retained in 2015 and became offensive quality control coach. [9] Holz became assistant wide receivers coach in 2017, returned to offensive quality control coach in 2018, and in 2021 became assistant wide receivers coach a second time. [7]

In 2022, Holz was hired as offensive coordinator of the UNLV Rebels. [10] He returned to the NFL in 2023 when he was hired as passing game coordinator of the Jacksonville Jaguars, replacing Jim Bob Cooter. [11] On February 5, 2024, Holz was hired as offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans. [12]

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  2. 1 2 3 "Nick Holz". Jacksonville Jaguars.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Harvey, Demetrius (February 23, 2023). "Three things to know about newly-hired Jaguars passing game coordinator Nick Holz". The Florida Times-Union .
  4. 1 2 Tafur, Vic (July 27, 2014). "De La Salle alums Maurice Jones-Drew and Nick Holz reunited with Raiders". SFGATE .
  5. ↑ Shipley, John (February 23, 2023). "Jaguars Hire Nick Holz As Passing Game Coordinator". Sports Illustrated .
  6. ↑ Thorburn, Ryan (August 14, 2009). "Holz goes Big Red: Former Buff catching grief for taking internship on Nebraska staff" . Daily Camera .
  7. 1 2 Harvey, Demetrius (February 22, 2023). "Jaguars hire former UNLV OC Nick Holz as passing game coordinator". The Florida Times-Union .
  8. ↑ Simmons, Myles (January 26, 2024). "Titans plan to interview Nick Holz for offensive coordinator on Monday". ProFootballTalk . NBC Sports.
  9. ↑ McDonald, Jerry (February 10, 2015). "A look at sweeping change on Raiders coaching staff". The Mercury News .
  10. ↑ Gordon, Sam (February 23, 2022). "UNLV hires Raiders assistant as offensive coordinator". Las Vegas Review-Journal .
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  12. ↑ "Titans Hire Nick Holz as Offensive Coordinator, Dennard Wilson as Defensive Coordinator". TennesseeTitans.com. February 5, 2024. Retrieved February 5, 2024.
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