| Date of birth | December 14, 1979 |
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| Place of birth | Minneapolis, Minnesota, U.S. |
| Position(s) | Offensive Coordinator Wide Receiver |
| College | Texas |
| Team(s) as a player | |
| 1998 1999-2002 |
Duke Texas |
| Team(s) as a coach/administrator | |
| 2003 2004-2005 2006 2007 2008-2009 2010-present |
UCLA (Graduate assistant) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (Offensive Quality Control) Houston Texans (Wide receivers coach) Houston Texans (Quarterbacks coach) Houston Texans (Offensive Coordinator) Washington Redskins (Offensive Coordinator) |
Kyle Shanahan (born December 14, 1979) is an NFL offensive coordinator for the Washington Redskins. Shanahan, at 28 years, 26 days old, became the youngest coordinator in the NFL when he was promoted by the Houston Texans on January 11, 2008.[1] His father, Mike Shanahan, is the current head coach for the Washington Redskins.
Shanahan was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, while his father coached at the University of Minnesota. He later attended Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, Colorado, while his father served as head coach of the Denver Broncos. Shanahan accepted a scholarship offer by Carl Franks of Duke University, but chose to transfer as redshirt freshman to the University of Texas at Austin. Shanahan played wide receiver on a Longhorn team that featured future NFL players Roy Williams, Cedric Benson, Bo Scaife, Mike Williams, Quentin Jammer, and future college coach Major Applewhite.
| “ | I studied every potential Xs and Os play and issue possible. I spent my whole life working on that. My goal was that any question a player could have about anything on the field, I'd be able to answer it. | ” |
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—Kyle Shanahan[2] |
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Soon after he graduated from Texas in 2003, Shanahan became graduate assistant to Karl Dorrell at UCLA. Following that season, Shanahan was hired as assistant coach for offensive quality control under head coach Jon Gruden with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Gruden had held a similar position with the San Francisco 49ers in 1990, at about the same age that Shanahan had in 2004.
In 2006, Shanahan was hired by Gary Kubiak to serve as wide receivers coach for the Houston Texans. Kubiak had previously served as offensive coordinator under Mike Shanahan with the Broncos. At the time, Kyle Shanahan was the youngest position coach in the NFL. A season later, Shanahan received another promotion to become the Texans quarterback coach. In 2007, he had also been offered to become offensive coordinator at the University of Minnesota, where former Broncos assistant Tim Brewster just became head coach. Shanahan declined, citing his decision to be an NFL coach.[3] Shanahan was immediately dealt as the frontrunner for the vacant offensive coordinator position after Mike Sherman had left the Texans to take over as head coach at Texas A&M University.[4]
On January 11, 2008, he was officially promoted, becoming the youngest coordinator in the NFL, being more than three years younger than Josh McDaniels of the New England Patriots. In 2010, Kyle Shanahan left the Texans to join his father with the Washington Redskins.
| Preceded by Mike Sherman |
Houston Texans Offensive Coordinator 2008-2009 |
Succeeded by Rick Dennison |
| Preceded by Sherman Smith |
Washington Redskins Offensive Coordinator 2010-present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |