{"id":748874,"date":"2026-02-13T09:09:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748874\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T09:09:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T09:09:26","slug":"colts-lose-assistant-coach-to-andrew-lucks-stanford-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/748874\/","title":{"rendered":"Colts lose assistant coach to Andrew Luck’s Stanford staff"},"content":{"rendered":"

After four seasons coaching in the NFL alongside legendary receiver Reggie Wayne<\/a>, Colts<\/a> assistant wide receivers coach and offensive quality control coach Brian Bratton has been hired by one of Wayne\u2019s old quarterbacks.<\/p>\n

Bratton is expected to be named Stanford\u2019s wide receivers coach, according to Wayne, who posted on X Tuesday night<\/a> about the move that will send the longtime Furman receivers coach back to the college game to work under Stanford general manager (and former Colts<\/a> star quarterback) Andrew Luck and his team\u2019s new head coach Tavita Pritchard.<\/p>\n

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\u201cDamn. The receiver room took a hit. Coach B has become the receiver coach at (Stanford). I\u2019m excited to see them boys get right this year and moving forward. Who\u2019s gonna talk me (off) the ledge now,\u201d Wayne wrote<\/a>. \u201cY\u2019all wish \u2018em good luck on his new journey.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bratton posted this on X that evening<\/a>: \u201cThankful for four unforgettable years with the Colts. A ride marked by lessons learned, bonds forged and every challenge met head-on. Grateful for the players, coaches and this city. I carry the lessons, the scars and the standard with me \u2013 the next chapter will write itself.\u201d<\/p>\n

At the time of writing, Bratton is not yet listed among Stanford\u2019s coaches on the team\u2019s website<\/a> and has not been formally announced by the team, but the receivers coach is no longer listed on the Colts\u2019 coaches list online<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bratton joined the Colts in the spring of 2022<\/a> in tandem with Wayne, following the former\u2019s seven-year coaching stint at Division I FCS-level Furman<\/a>, his alma mater. As a player with the Paladins, Bratton earned All-American honors as a freshman in 2001 after averaging a college-best 37.2 yards per attempt on kickoff returns \u2013 including three touchdowns. He also caught 131 passes for 1,826 yards and 18 touchdowns in his career during his stint that included a pair of conference titles and an FCS national runner-up finish. He’s a member of the school’s athletics Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n

Bratton spent time with the Falcons and Ravens in 2005 before stints in NFL Europe (2006), the Arena League (2007) and the CFL (2007-12), where he won two Grey Cups with the Montreal Alouettes and won the league\u2019s Tom Pate award in 2012, the CFL\u2019s equivalent to the NFL\u2019s Walter Payton Man of the Year award. Following two years working as an assistant coach at North Greenville University, Bratton was hired by Furman in 2015, where he worked as the team\u2019s wide receivers coach while also holding special teams coordinator and co-offensive coordinator duties.<\/p>\n

During his four years with the Colts, Bratton oversaw the development of young wideouts Alec Pierce<\/a> and Josh Downs<\/a> \u2013 the former who is entering what is certain to be a lucrative offseason as a free agent for the first time in his career after topping 1,000 yards in 2025 and leading the NFL in yards per catch for the second year running.<\/p>\n

Bratton\u2019s departure is the third loss for a Colts coaching staff this offseason that has remained largely intact. On Thursday, IndyStar confirmed the team\u2019s plans to hire Arkansas\u2019 Marion Hobby<\/a> as Indianapolis\u2019 new defensive line coach to replace Charlie Partridge, who joined Notre Dame\u2019s coaching staff<\/a> this offseason in the same role after working for two seasons on Colts head coach Shane Steichen\u2019s coaching staff. The team also saw Charlie Gelman, a football analyst and game management specialist, leave to join the Ravens as a defensive assistant and game manage coordinator<\/a> on new head coach Jesse Minter\u2019s staff after three years in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

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After principal team owner Carlie Irsay-Gordon confirmed the evening of the season-finale that Steichen and longtime general manager Chris Ballard would return in 2026<\/a>, defensive coordinator Lou Anarumo<\/a>, offensive coordinator Jim Bob Cooter<\/a> and passing game coordinator Alex Tanney<\/a> all received outside coaching interest<\/a> and interviewed for a combined six play-calling coordinator or head coaching roles with the Bills, Titans, Giants and Eagles. All, ultimately, will stay put in Indianapolis.<\/p>\n

Joel A. Erickson<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Nathan Brown<\/a>\u00a0cover the Colts\u00a0all season. Get more coverage on\u00a0IndyStarTV<\/a>\u00a0and with the\u00a0Colts Insider newsletter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Indianapolis Star: Colts lose assistant WR coach Brian Bratton to Andrew Luck, Stanford<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After four seasons coaching in the NFL alongside legendary receiver Reggie Wayne, Colts assistant wide receivers coach and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2059],"tags":[4994,30209,6502,29376,2005,7,6496,2004,392,2381,1509,6,67872,37778,20501,982,13625,527,29380],"class_list":{"0":"post-748874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-indianapolis-colts","8":"tag-alec-pierce","9":"tag-alex-tanney","10":"tag-andrew-luck","11":"tag-brian-bratton","12":"tag-colts","13":"tag-football","14":"tag-head-coach","15":"tag-indianapolis","16":"tag-indianapolis-colts","17":"tag-indianapoliscolts","18":"tag-josh-downs","19":"tag-nfl","20":"tag-receiver-coach","21":"tag-receivers-coach","22":"tag-reggie-wayne","23":"tag-stanford","24":"tag-the-colts","25":"tag-titans","26":"tag-wide-receivers-coach"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116062543264664649","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}