Jordan Lynch (for Six!) is back on the sidelines for Northern Illinois.
Northern Illinois officially hired Lynch as running backs coach on Wednesday afternoon, according to the athletic department’s Twitter account.
Four years ago, Lynch tore apart MAC defenses with the read option on a weekly basis as a quarterback. He will once again return to the gridiron in DeKalb, but this time he’ll be coaching the younger generation of Huskies.
Lynch spent the past two seasons as a run-first quarterback with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League. He only attempted nine career passes in the CFL, one good for a touchdown.