Billy Napier to promote Florida staffer to TE coach, per report
Billy Napier has reportedly decided on one of his new on-field assistants. Multiple outlets are reporting that off-field staffer Russ Callaway will be named tight ends coach.
Callaway joined the Florida support staff in 2022. He spent the 2021 season as an offensive assistant with the New York Giants and was an analyst at LSU in 2020.
Callaway was an assistant at Samford for 5 seasons as offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach (2017-19) and wide receivers coach (2015-16). Prior to Samford, Callaway was the recruiting coordinator at Murray State and worked with wide receivers.
Callaway was on staff at Alabama for the Crimson Tide’s back-to-back BCS titles in 2011 and 2012, assisting Kirby Smart by working with the inside linebackers. Napier was also on the 2011 Alabama staff as an analyst.
Callaway played quarterback at Valdosta State, graduating in 2010. As Florida’s new tight ends coach, Callaway fills the vacancy created by William Peagler’s departure to join the Arizona Cardinals coaching staff.
Florida held the first of its 15 spring practices on Saturday. The Gators have not yet named a new wide receivers coach after the departure of Keary Colbert.
Florida is expected to name Russ Callaway as its new tight ends coach, sources tell @on3sports.
Callaway, a former offensive coordinator at Samford, had been an analyst at Florida after stops with the New York Giants and LSU. https://t.co/DlIXY67ten pic.twitter.com/92awkGLBeu
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) March 6, 2023
“1,2,,,,3,4,5,, Gator don’t take no jive
Go Gator”
5-6-7-8 9 10….back it up and say it again!
Hilarious that the first to comment is your random UGA fan with a nonsensical comment. Georgia had an endless supply.
Seems like our new position coach has been around working with the offense for a while and there is the past Napier connection. Sounds good to me, let’s get up and Go Gators
Has
As long as the dude recruits his rear end off, he’ll do just fine. Having OC experience means he well understands all the blocking and route concepts TE’s need to learn.
Dexter and a few players seemed excited, that’s a good sign. CBN has shown to be meticulous so he’s probably a good hire.
Random?!? Words hurt!
It’s difficult to say nice things about UF. However, Callaway’s coaching history is impeccable. So, with that in mind, I thought quoting Corrine Brown, above, was fitting
“Sorry I got in a fight in the middle of your Black Panther party”
Corch
Sorry bro but like they say, you all look alike. Besides, there’s way to many of you to keep track.
Not a fan of Corrine so I didn’t get it.
Finally like Chris Rock said, whoever tells you that words hurt has never been punched in the mouth
crackhead
I saw a commercial for the NHRA Turd National Drag Races at the I-75 Truck Stop, like this coming weekend.
I bet that is a boon for you. How do you work it, split your time between the Flying J bathroom and the porta potties at the drag strip (lol, drag strip, no pun intended)
Get professional help soon
Lol, it was just yesterday that mullet had you and your merry band of turds all worked up, thinking you all would soon be standing atop the SEC looking down UGA, Bama, LSU, AU, UT, UK, USCar, Mizzou, Vandy, FSU, UCF, Oregon St etc.. You were all over every UGA article babbling about an offensive genius, a QB whisperer, UF QB’s winning Heismans, 1980, Kirby Dumbs, more with less blah blah blah blah
Now all you can do is curse Muschamp, McSharkHumper, mullet, Strickland, Sunbelt Billy while whining about “UGA trolls’ and making Mertz jokes.
maybe just maybe the next HC UF hires after Sunbelt Billy is paid to leave town will be a keeper. I mean UF averages 15 good years of football a Century, sooner or later the laws of probability will shine on the I-75 Truckstop.
Sounds like just another “tale told by an idiot, full sound and fury, signifying nothing.”
At least RealC doesn’t insult an innocent group of people Tdow. If you let go of that resentment towards the Gators and focus on positivity like your team winning and all that entails you’ll enjoy your life much more.
Bridge too far for him, his needs are too great.
Dude was still working within the UF Football Program?
He must have been just slightly more hirable than Pee Wee Herman at a Day Care center.
Finally a subject you know something about.
The keyboard speaks but does not make the man, the words (though entertaining to himself) are very telling.
I’ve never seen a badazz use a keyboard for boxing gloves
Rut ro – we’ve got another UF tough guy talking about meeting up and duking it out – you and Doc will get along just fine
Cornpop always get the last word.
Doc
How’s my vegetable of the vine of the fruit of stem from ghost aligned with the spirits of karma descended from a cow today?
You tell me – I don’t deal in Karma. You must be Hindu?
No, not Hindu. Just an obnoxious, obsessed and stupid narcissist
I’m just thankful that the guy is not in an actual position of any authority or influence, other than what he assumes through his delusions of grandeur. Just another small man trying to act big.
TE coach. Trolls excited to comment on Tight End coachimg hire.
I do enjoy your passion for my team and it’s still Great to be a Gator.
I survived the Spurrier and Meyer years!!!! (should be a UGA T-Shirt). So, my angst is warranted.
I put UF on same equivalence as a communist, solar powered STD.
I do love your Governor, however.
Fear not. If Atlanta ever gets free of its blue haze, you’ll get another Georgia governor with some cojones too.