Devin Jordan, a former Ohio State wide receiver who was most recently a quality control coach at Akron, is returning to the Buckeyes as an offensive assistant.
A member of Ohio State’s recruiting class of 2003 out of Massillon Washington High School, Jordan’s own playing career was derailed by an injury he suffered in practice in 2004. But as Jordan documented in anlast year, Jim Tressel encouraged Jordan to stay in the sport, and Jordan ended up becoming a student coach for the Buckeyes.
Jordan has since coached at Wittenberg, Otterbein, Malone and Youngstown State and was most recently an offensive quality control coach at Akron, where he spent the past two seasons. Now, Jordan will have the opportunity to work alongside fellow former Ohio State wide receiver Brian Hartline, who he helped coach when he was a student coach and who he told the Dispatch he considers to be “the best wide receivers coach in America.”, a nonprofit designed “to help kids understand that sports is a platform to achieving a higher education and reaching their potential as adults.
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