Jeff McDaniels - Football Coach - Boise State University Athletics

Jeff McDaniels

Title:
Offensive Graduate Assistant

Jeff McDaniels joined the Boise State football staff as offensive graduate assistant in 2020.

McDaniels spent three seasons (2017-19) at Davidson, his alma mater, coaching cornerbacks and serving as the program's recruiting coordinator.

Before returning to Davidson, McDaniels spent two seasons at Texas State University as the offensive skill and special teams graduate assistant coach. During the 2016 season McDaniels worked primarily with the receivers and all of the special teams units for head coach Everett Withers. The Bobcats led the entire country in blocked kicks (8) in 2016. In his first season at Texas State under then-head coach Dennis Franchione, he worked with the running backs and tights ends while again working with all special teams units. He helped running back Robert Lowe become the first Bobcat since 1997 to rush for over 900 yards in three-consecutive years. Lowe finished his career fourth on the all-time rushing yards list (3,027) and fourth in all-time rushing touchdowns (29). In the kicking game that season, the Bobcats finished near the top of nearly every primary kicking statistic in the Sun Belt Conference and receiver Brandon Smith was selected to the 2015 All-Sun Belt Conference Team as a kick returner.

Prior to Texas State, McDaniels served as the offensive quality control coach working with both the quarterbacks and receivers for head coach Bobby Wilder at Old Dominion University. During one his season at ODU, he coached future Carolina Panthers quarterback Taylor Heinicke, a two-time All-American and Walter Payton Award Winner (FCS Most Outstanding Player Award). He also worked with the two best statistical receivers in ODU history: Zach Pascal and Antonio Vaughan. Pascal, a current member of the Indianapolis Colts, ranks in the top-two of every receiving statistic in Monarch history and Vaughan is the all-time leader in receiving yards for the Monarchs.

A two-year letterman and senior team captain for Davidson, McDaniels ranked second among receivers with 37 catches for 428 yards and three touchdowns as a senior. During his senior season he also was the leading punter and was named Davidson’s Special Teams Player of the Year by the coaching staff. He finished his playing career as a three-time Academic All-Pioneer League Football Member. His coaching career started during the spring of his senior year when he transitioned from a player to an offensive student assistant coach.

McDaniels graduated from Davidson College in 2014 with a Bachelor’s Degree in psychology with a minor in interpersonal and mass communication. He has a Master’s Degree with Honors in education and sports management from Old Dominion, and a second Master’s with Honors in mass communication with an emphasis in strategic communications from Texas State University.