Doug Nussmeier enters his first year as quarterbacks coach of the Philadelphia Eagles after joining the team during the 2024 offseason. Nussmeier brings more than two decades of coaching experience in the collegiate and professional ranks to the Eagles' staff, including nine NFL seasons.
In 2023, Nussmeier served as the Los Angeles Chargers' quarterbacks coach. Under his direction, Justin Herbert completed 295-of-517 (65.1 pct.) attempts for 3,134 yards, 20 touchdowns, seven interceptions, and a 93.2 passer rating in 13 contests before suffering a broken finger.
Prior to his stint with the Chargers, Nussmeier spent five seasons as a member of the Dallas Cowboys' coaching staff, working as the quarterbacks coach (2020-22) and tight ends coach (2018-19). From 2020-22, Dallas produced the fourth-most total yards per game (378.0) in the league, despite requiring five different starting quarterbacks in that span.
During the 2022 campaign, Nussmeier's room battled through adversity to help the team finish 12-5 with a postseason appearance. Dak Prescott returned from injury midseason and ranked among the NFL's top passers down the stretch, as his 20 passing scores from Week 10 until the end of the regular season tied for the most in the league. Additionally, Nussmeier's development of the Cowboys' quarterbacks was critical early in the season, as Cooper Rush guided the team to a 4-1 record in five starts.
In 2021, Nussmeier mentored a group of quarterbacks that helped Dallas rank among the top offensive units in the NFL, as the Cowboys finished first in both total offense (407.0 ypg) and points per game (31.2). Under his guidance, Prescott registered the third-highest passer rating (104.2) in the league while throwing for a franchise-record 37 touchdowns.
Prescott averaged 371.2 passing yards per game through the first five games of the 2020 season, setting an NFL record before enduring an ankle injury that ended his season prematurely. Three different quarterbacks from Nussmeier's group made at least one start after Prescott's injury.
As tight ends coach in Dallas, Nussmeier helped Jason Witten post his 14th and 15th career seasons with 60-plus catches while tutoring Blake Jarwin, who caught 58 passes and six touchdowns from 2018-19.
Nussmeier joined the Cowboys in 2018 after spending 13 of the previous 15 seasons coaching at the collegiate level, including 10 years as an offensive coordinator. In those 13 seasons, Nussmeier saw eight different players get selected in the first or second round of the NFL Draft.
Before going to Dallas, Nussmeier served as the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Florida (2015-17), Michigan (2014), and Alabama (2012-13). In his first season with the Crimson Tide, Nussmeier guided A.J. McCarron to a then-school-best 30 passing touchdowns, including four in Alabama's victory over Notre Dame in the 2013 BCS National Championship Game. He also coached McCarron to throw for 3,063 yards in 2013, which marked the most in single-season program history at the time.
Nussmeier was also the offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Washington from 2009-11. In his final year with the Huskies, the offense recorded 57 touchdowns and 431 points, both good for the second-most in program history. Nussmeier's first offensive coordinator role came in 2008, directing the offense and coaching the quarterbacks at Fresno State.
In 2006, Nussmeier earned his first NFL coaching job with the St. Louis Rams working with the quarterbacks (2006-07). He helped Marc Bulger earn Pro Bowl honors after passing for a career-high 4,301 yards with 24 touchdowns. Prior to St. Louis, Nussmeier coached the quarterbacks at Michigan State from 2003-05, capping his tenure with the Spartans by helping Drew Stanton produce a then-school-record 3,415 passing yards in 2005.
Nussmeier first broke into coaching in the Canadian Football League in 2001 as the quarterbacks coach of his former team, the BC Lions. He then worked with the Ottawa Renegades' quarterbacks in 2002.
After being selected in the fourth round (116th overall) of the 1994 NFL Draft by New Orleans, Nussmeier spent four years with the Saints and one with the Indianapolis Colts before heading to the CFL in 2000 and helping lead the BC Lions to a Grey Cup Championship. Nussmeier appeared in five games, including two starts, over his NFL career, all with New Orleans, throwing for 455 yards and one touchdown on 46-of-82 passing (56.1 pct.).
Nussmeier finished his career at Idaho as the program's all-time leading passer with 10,824 career passing yards over five years (1989-93). He won the Walter Payton Award in 1993, which was given annually to the top player in NCAA Division I-AA, after throwing for a school-record 33 touchdown passes and leading the Vandals to a national semifinal appearance. Nussmeier was named Big Sky Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 1992 and was inducted into the University of Idaho Athletic Hall of Fame in 2008.
A native of Portland, OR, Nussmeier and his wife, Christi, have two sons, Garrett and Colton, and a daughter, Ashlynn. Garrett enters his fourth season as a quarterback at LSU in 2024.
