Nick Sheridan | |
Current Title: | Offensive coordinator & quarterbacks coach |
Current Team: | Alabama |
Current Conference: | SEC |
Birth Date: | 21 May 1988 |
Birth Place: | Saline, Michigan, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 2006–2010 |
Player Team1: | Michigan |
Player Positions: | Quarterback |
Coach Years1: | 2010 |
Coach Team1: | Saline HS (MI) (QB) |
Coach Years2: | 2011 |
Coach Team2: | Western Kentucky (GA) |
Coach Years3: | 2012 |
Coach Team3: | Western Kentucky (PGC/QB) |
Coach Years4: | 2013 |
Coach Team4: | South Florida (PGC/QB) |
Coach Years5: | 2014–2016 |
Coach Team5: | Tennessee (GA) |
Coach Years6: | 2017–2018 |
Coach Team6: | Indiana (QB) |
Coach Years7: | 2019 |
Coach Team7: | Indiana (TE) |
Coach Years8: | 2020–2021 |
Coach Team8: | Indiana (OC/QB) |
Coach Years9: | 2022–2023 |
Coach Team9: | Washington (TE) |
Coach Years10: | 2024–present |
Coach Team10: | Alabama (OC/QB) |
Nick William Sheridan (born May 21, 1988) is an American football coach and former quarterback who is the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the University of Alabama. He previously served as the tight ends coach at the University of Washington and was the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at the Indiana University. He played college football for Michigan.
Sheridan walked on to Michigan as a quarterback in 2006. He earned a scholarship his junior year and started 4 games in 2008. Sheridan graduated from Michigan in 2010 with a degree in political science.[1]
After graduating from Michigan, Sheridan took a coaching position at his alma mater, Saline High School.[2] He coached quarterbacks at Saline for one year before leaving to join Willie Taggart's coaching staff at Western Kentucky as a graduate assistant in 2011. He was promoted to passing coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2012.[3] He served in that same capacity at South Florida in 2013 after Taggart was named the head coach there. He was fired after one season at South Florida along with South Florida offensive coordinator Walt Wells.[4] He was hired to be a graduate assistant at Tennessee in 2014 following his termination from South Florida. He coached at Tennessee for four seasons before being named the quarterbacks coach at Indiana in 2017. He switched to the tight ends coach in 2019 after offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Mike DeBord retired and Fresno State offensive coordinator Kalen DeBoer was named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.[5] He was named the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the 2020 season after DeBoer departed to be the head coach at Fresno State.[6]
Sheridan was terminated by Indiana on November 28, 2021.[7]
Sheridan was hired by the Washington Huskies on December 14, 2021, as their new tight ends coach.
On February 20, 2024, it was announced that Sheridan would be following Kalen DeBoer from Washington to Alabama to become the team's new offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.[8]
Sheridan is the son of Bill Sheridan, a longtime football coach who was the defensive coordinator of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and is currently the linebackers coach for the Arlington Renegades.[9] Sheridan and his wife Sarah have three children.