Nick Sheridan:
Nick Sheridan reunited with Husky head coach Kalen DeBoer when he joined the 2022 staff as Washington's tight ends coach. He returns for a second year in 2023.
In his first year at UW in 2022, Sheridan helped guide the Husky offense to some of its highest heights as Washington led the nation in both passing offense (369.8 yards per game) and third-down conversions (57 percent) while also finishing second in total offense (515.8 yards per game). Just one season earlier, Washington finished the season 73rd in pass offense and 114th in total offense.
The Huskies also had top-25 finishes in sacks allowed (2nd), first downs (5th), scoring offense (7th), and rushing offense (25th).
Sheridan, who was offensive coordinator at Indiana for two seasons prior to coming to UW, worked as tight ends coach under DeBoer at Indiana in 2019, when DeBoer was in charge of the Hoosiers' offense. A former walk-on quarterback, who eventually earned a scholarship, at Michigan (2006-2010), Sheridan began his college coaching career at Western Kentucky, first as a GA in 2011, then as quarterbacks coach the following year.
After stops at South Florida and Tennessee, he was hired as quarterbacks coach at Indiana in 2017, when he was named one of the top-30 coaches under the age of 30 by 247Sports.com. In 2019, with DeBoer as offensive coordinator, Sheridan coached the tight ends.
In 2019, Hoosiers tight end Peyton Hendershot (now a three-time, All-Big Ten honoree) set school records for the position with 52 receptions for 622 yards.
In 2020, as offensive coordinator, Sheridan helped IU quarterback Michael Penix, Jr., become a Davey O'Brien Award semifinalist and second-team All-Big Ten selection. Penix led the Big Ten Conference with 274.2 passing yards per game. That same season, Ty Fryfolge was a first-team, all-conference selection and was named the Big Ten Receiver of the Year.
In 2020, IU finished fourth in the Big Ten in scoring (28.9), and fifth in passing offense (250.9) and time of possession (31:15).
In 2019, alongside DeBoer, Indiana improved at least 40 spots in the national rankings from 2018 in time of possession (+87), average yards per pass (+83), average yards per reception (+78), red zone touchdowns (+70), 20-yard passing plays (+69), 20-yard scrimmage plays (+62), points per game (+46), and total touchdowns (+43).
In 2018, with Sheridan in his second year as quarterbacks coach, Indiana finished third in the conference in passing offense (257.8) for the second-straight year. Quarterback Peyton Ramsey started all 12 games and went 295-of-447 (66.0 percent) for 2,875 yards, with 19 touchdowns, 354 rushing yards, and five rushing touchdowns. Ramsey’s completions and attempts ranked second, completion percentage was third, total yardage (3,229) was fourth, passing yardage was sixth, and passing TDs shared sixth on the program’s single-season charts.
In 2017, the Hoosiers' 265.7 passing yards per game ranked 35th in the country. QBs Richard Lagow (1,936 yards; 15 TDs) and Ramsey (1,252 yards; 10 TDs) combined for 3,188 yards and 25 touchdowns while completing 61.2 percent of their passes.
Ramsey earned freshman All-Big Ten honors after he set a then-school record (2nd in the Big Ten, tied-13th nationally) with a 65.4 completion percentage.
In his role as an offensive grad assistant at Tennessee (2014-16), Sheridan worked with quarterback Joshua Dobbs, who was selected in the fourth round of the 2017 NFL Draft by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
An All-SEC selection, Dobbs became only the third QB in SEC history with 15 passing touchdowns and 10 rushing TDs in multiple seasons (alongside Tim Tebow and Dak Prescott). Dobbs (32) joined Gene McEver (37) and James Stewart (35) as the only players in program history with 30-plus career rushing scores.
Dobbs finished his career with 7,138 passing yards, the fifth-most in UT history. He also became just the fifth player in Vols history to eclipse 7,000 career passing yards.
Sheridan walked on as a quarterback at the University of Michigan in 2006, and earned a scholarship prior to his junior year. He appeared in 12 career games, making four starts in 2008.
Sheridan earned his bachelor’s degree in political science from Michigan in the spring of 2010 and began his coaching career that fall as quarterbacks coach at his alma mater, Saline High School (Mich.).
He worked as a graduate assistant at Western Kentucky University the following spring and was elevated to quarterbacks coach and passing coordinator in 2012. In 2013, he joined former WKU coach Willie Taggart at South Florida, also as QBs coach and passing game coordinator.
His father, Bill, is a 35-year NFL and collegiate coaching veteran currently serving as the defensive line coach at the Air Force Academy.
Nick and his wife, Sarah, have twos sons, Beau and Heath, and one daughter, Sloane.
COACHING HISTORY
Washington
2022-23: Tight Ends
Indiana
2000-21: Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2019: Tight Ends
2017-18: Quarterbacks
Tennessee
2014-16: Graduate Assistant
South Florida
2013: Passing Game Coordinator/Quarterbacks
Western Kentucky
2012: Passing Game Coordinator/Quarterbacks
2011: Graduate Assistant
Saline (Mich.) HS
2010: Quarterbacks