{"id":762188,"date":"2026-02-19T10:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762188\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T10:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T10:54:24","slug":"texas-hires-kwahn-drake-as-assistant-dl-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/762188\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas hires Kwahn Drake as assistant DL coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">With the NCAA eliminating the limit on on-field coaches, college programs with the available resources can adopt an NFL-style model of assistant position coaches for roles typically described as a football analyst.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A New Orleans product, Drake got his start in coaching as a student assistant at Nicholls State before working at the high school level in Louisiana for several years. Tulane gave Drake his first chance at college coaching as a graduate assistant, elevating him to the defensive line coach for the Green Wave in 2014.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After working as an offensive analyst under Mike Norvell at Memphis in 2016, Drake coached the defensive line at Eastern Illinois and Colorado in addition to stints at Kansas and Western Kentucky and in the UFL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With the NCAA eliminating the limit on on-field coaches, college programs with the available resources can adopt an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":762189,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,49,48,1079],"class_list":{"0":"post-762188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-football","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-ncaa","10":"tag-ncaa-football","11":"tag-texas-longhorns-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116096930401530014","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762188","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=762188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762188\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/762189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}