Ohio State head coach Ryan Day is adding yet another former Jim Harbaugh assistant to his staff. This time it’s a man who had been by Harbaugh’s side for over a decade.
According to Patrick Murphy of Bucknuts247, the Buckeyes are hiring longtime offensive line coach Tim Drevno to Day’s staff as a quality control coach. Drevno worked under Harbaugh from 2004 to 2013 and again from 2015 to 2017, but most recently worked under newly-minted Ohio State offensive coordinator Chip Kelly at UCLA.
“A Torrence, California native, Drevno has a long history of working with offensive linemen at both the collegiate and NFL levels. He spent the last three seasons working with new Scarlet and Gray offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach Chip Kelly at UCLA, but was not retained on the staff by new head coach DeShaun Foster,” Murphy wrote.
Drevno has been coaching since 1991 and enjoyed stints at Cal State Fullerton, Montana State, UNLV, San Jose State and Idaho before joining San Diego as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach in 2003. He was retained by Harbaugh when he took over the team in 2004 and the two continued working together through the end of his tenure with the Torreros, through his time at Stanford and for Harbaugh’s first three years with the San Francisco 49ers.
Drevno coached at USC for the 2014 season but reunited with Harbaugh in 2015 when he was hired as head coach of the Wolverines. He would serve as offensive coordinator and offensive line coach for Harbaugh’s first three years in Ann Arbor before returning to USC for three more years then going to UCLA.
Now Drevno is taking his wealth of experience with him to Columbus.