Ohio State hires coach who helped Aaron Rodgers become a Super Bowl winner, MVP

Joe Philbin is a longtime NFL coach, but he started his coaching career in the college football ranks — and now it's being reported that he's heading "back down" again.

According to Matt Zenitz of On3, Philbin, 61, has been hired as an analyst on Ryan Day's Ohio State staff.

What Philbin's true role with Ohio State will be is up in the air, but it's safe to assume that he'll be helping Day out on the offensive side of the football. Philbin was the offensive coordinator for the Green Bay Packers from 2007 to 2011 where he helped mold Aaron Rodgers into a Super Bowl-winning quarterback and MVP. He also served as head coach of the Miami Dolphins from 2012 to 2015, but he accumulated only a 24-28 record as a head coach.

Philbin was also Green Bay's interim head coach after the Packers fired Mike McCarthy in 2018.

Speaking of McCarthy, Philbin was reunited with him in Dallas and had served as the Cowboys offensive line coach since 2020.

Philbin started his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Tulane in 1984, and for what it's worth, he does know the Big Ten. He was Kirk Ferentz's offensive line coach at Iowa from 1999 to 2002.