Ryan Walker - Football Coach - University of Delaware Athletics

Ryan Walker

Title:
Offensive Analyst
Email:
rkwalker@udel.edu

Ryan Walker joined the Delaware football coaching staff in July 2023 and will serve as an offensive analyst while assisting with the team’s wide receivers. Walker, a former collegiate and professional quarterback, brings nearly a decade of coaching experience to Newark.

Walker joins the Blue Hens after serving as the quarterback coach, pass game coordinator, and special teams coordinator for Elizabeth City State University for the spring of 2023. He spent the 2022 season at UNC Pembroke where he was the wide receivers coach and special teams coordinator. During his time at Pembroke the receivers marked multiple games with multiple receivers gaining over 100 plus receiving yards. Also all special teams units improved from years past as well as leading the conference in punt returns with an all 1st team conference punt returner as well. The Braves also recorded multiple conference special teams players of the week during his tenure there.

He was at Grambling State University for the 2020 and 2021 seasons where he coached both the tight ends and quarterbacks. He also served as the interim play caller at GSU during the 2020 campaign. Walker helped mold the career of Kalif Jackson who would sign a UDFA contract with the Miami Dolphins following an impressive collegiate career with the Tigers.

Walker trained prep, collegiate and professional athletes across a seven-year stay (2014-20) as quarterbacks coach at the DeBartolo Sports QB Academy under NFL consultant Joe Dickinson and former San Francisco 49ers owner and Hall of Famer, Eddie DeBartolo Jr. His list of mentees at that stop includes more than 30 NCAA Division I signal callers, most notably former Alabama standout and current New England Patriots quarterback Mac Jones. Additionally, he tutored fellow Elite 11 finalist Carter Bradley, who completed better than 60 percent of his pass attempts under center for Toledo and South Alabama.

Walker joined the coaching ranks as wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator at Pedro Menendez High School in Saint Augustine, Florida during the 2015 season, and served a similar role at Ridgeview High School in nearby Orange Park during the 2016 campaign. He took on the role as offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach for Atlantic Coast High School in Jacksonville for the 2017 and 2019 seasons as well.

He played both the quarterback and tight end positions at Jacksonville University from 2010-13, and played one season (2014) under center at Florida International. An academic All-America selection for the Dolphins, he was a part of 29 victories in Jacksonville and caught three passes for 74 yards as a senior, including a career-long 42-yard reception against Davidson.

Walker earned a three-year playing stint (2015-16, 2018) at the professional level as a member of the Jacksonville Sharks (AFL). He also spent the 2017 football season as a part-time volunteer with the Pittsburgh Steelers.

A native of Mandarin, Floriida, Walker earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science at Jacksonville in 2014, and completed his graduate work in sports administration at Grambling State in 2021. Walker and his wife, Theresa, have two children – daughter, Mila, and son, Boston.