Jerry Neuheisel is leaving home to go work for someone familiar.
The longtime UCLA assistant who was born at the school’s medical center, played quarterback for the Bruins and rose to de facto offensive coordinator last season will rejoin former boss Chip Kelly in a new role at Northwestern.
Neuheisel has agreed to become the quarterbacks coach under Kelly, who will serve as the Wildcats’ offensive coordinator after being fired late last season from the same role with the NFL’s Las Vegas Raiders.
Kelly has long been a mentor to Neuheisel, bringing him to UCLA as a graduate assistant in 2018 and promoting him to wide receivers coach in 2021.