Will Peagler - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Iowa State

Oct 11 (Sat)

1:30 PM

Will Peagler

Title:
Director of Quality Control/Offense
Email:
william.peagler@colorado.edu

Will Peagler is in his first year on the University of Colorado football staff, as he joined the program on January 9, 2019 as the director of quality control for the offense.

Peagler, 34, came to Colorado from the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, where he spent the 2018 season as the Ragin’ Cajuns’ director of player personnel and quality control coordinator. UL won the Sun Belt West Division title but earned a berth into the AutoNation Cure Bowl, where it lost to Tulane. He helped UL recruit the No 1 class in the SBC in February (and No. 5 in the Group of Five).

Peagler was scheduled to be the offensive line coach at Itawamba Community College (Fulton, Miss.) in 2017, but accepted a graduate assistant position at the University of Georgia, working with the offensive line. UGA was 13-2 for the year, reaching the College Football Playoff championship game where Alabama rallied to win in overtime. The Bulldogs were the SEC champions, defeating Auburn in the title game, and won the CFP semifinal in a wild 54-48 overtime win over Oklahoma at the Rose Bowl. He was also on the staff that signed the nation’s consensus top recruiting class for 2018.

He joined the University of Minnesota staff in January 2016 as an assistant in quality control for the offense, particularly working with the offensive line, where he was reunited current CU offensive coordinator Jay Johnson (the two worked together at Louisiana-Lafayette). In that role for the Gophers, he was in charge of opponent scouting, self-scouting and the day-to-day operations on the offensive side of the ball. Minnesota defeated Washington State in the Holiday and won nine games under coach Tracy Claeys.

Prior to heading to Minnesota, he was going to be the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Jones County (Miss.) Junior College for the 2016 season, but had the opportunity to take the position at Minnesota. In 2015, he was the offensive coordinator and offensive line coach at Olive Branch High School in Mississippi.

Peagler was at Coffeyville Community College in 2014, where he was the run game coordinator with additional duties as the school’s recruiting coordinator. Under his watch, the Ravens rushed for 2,671 yards and 22 touchdowns that season and went from scoring 27.8 points per game the year before to 48.2 (578 in 12 games). Previous to that, he had spent the 2011-13 seasons at Louisiana-Lafayette, where he first worked under Johnson. He first joined the Ragin’ Cajuns staff as an offensive quality control assistant and then was an offensive graduate assistant coach in his final two years there. UL won the New Orleans Bowl all three season he was on the staff, and were the Sun Belt Conference champions. His first taste of coaching came as the tight ends coach at Valdosta State for the 2010 season.

Peagler graduated from Clemson University with a degree in Sport Management in 2010. As undergraduate at CU, he was a student assistant for the Tiger football team under head coaches Tommy Bowden and Dabo Swinney from 2006-09.

He was born April 27, 1985 in Camp Lejeune, N.C., and graduated from the Holly Hill (S.C.) Academy where he lettered in football, basketball and baseball. His hobbies include working out, cooking, watching the Food Network and exploring new foods. (Last name is pronounced pea-glerr.)