Tyler Bowen

COACHING HIGHLIGHTS

• Tyler Bowen is in his third season at Virginia Tech as offensive coordinator. He served as tight ends coach in 2022 and coached quarterbacks in 2023.
• Under his tutelage, Kyron Drones passed for 2,085 yards and 17 touchdowns in 2023, while rushing for 818 yards and five scores. Drones set a Virginia Tech bowl record and Military Bowl record with 176 rushing yards in a 41-20 win over Tulane.
• A 14-year coaching veteran, Bowen served as the tight ends coach for the Jacksonville Jaguars during the 2021 season.
• Bowen previously worked with Pry at Penn State, serving as Penn State’s co-offensive coordinator/offensive recruiting coordinator/tight ends coach during the 2020 season. He coached tight ends and handled the offensive recruiting coordinator duties for the Nittany Lions from 2018-19.
• During his time in State College, he mentored 2021 NFL second-round pick TE Pat Freiermuth, who earned an All- Big Ten honorable mention honors after hauling in eight touchdowns in 2020, the second-most of any tight end in the FBS that season.
• Bowen helped lead Penn State to a 53-39 victory over Memphis in the 2019 Goodyear Cotton Bowl, his first game after taking over play-calling duties. Those 53 points marked Nittany Lions’ bowl record, while their five rushing TDs tied a Cotton Bowl record and their 396 rushing yards ranked as the second-highest total in the Cotton Bowl’s illustrious history.
• Prior to his tenure at Penn State, Bowen served as the offensive line coach at his alma mater of Maryland during the 2017 season. The Terrapins began that season with a 51-41 upset win at No. 23 Texas that featured 263 rushing yards and four ground scores. Maryland also opened its 2017 Big Ten schedule with a 31-24 victory at Minnesota that featured 262 rushing yards and a pair of TDs. One of his offensive line pupils, T Derwin Gray, was drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers.
• The Helena, Georgia native spent two years at Fordham, serving as offensive coordinator/offensive line coach in 2016 after joining the Rams as offensive line coach in 2015. Under his direction in 2016, the Rams’ offense led the Patriot League and finished fourth in the FCS in both scoring offense (40.1 ppg) and total offense (498.2 ypg). He tutored 2018 NFL fourth-round pick RB Chase Edmonds, who led the FCS in rushing (163.5 ypg) and finished fourth in the Walter Payton Award voting, which is given each year to the FCS’ most outstanding offensive player.
• Two Fordham offensive players earned All-America accolades under Bowen’s tutelage as Edmonds earned the honor in both 2015 and 2016 and G Garrick Mayweather, Jr. received those honors in 2015.
• Thanks to Bowen’s offensive line, Fordham finished second in the FCS in passing efficiency (168.3) and ninth in scoring (36.8 ppg) in 2015.
• Prior to his time at Fordham, Bowen worked as an offensive graduate assistant for Penn State in Pry’s first season with the Nittany Lions in 2014.
• He previously served as the tight ends coach at Towson in 2013 where he helped the Tigers advance to the FCS Championship Game and a No. 2 national ranking.
• Bowen began his collegiate coaching career as a student assistant with Maryland in 2010 before serving as a graduate assistant with the Terrapins from 2011-12. He worked with the offensive line and wide receivers while in College Park and helped the team register a 55-10 victory over East Carolina in the 2010 Military Bowl.

PROMINENT NFL PUPILS

TE	Pat Freiermuth	D2-2021 – Pittsburgh
TE	Nick Bowers	FA-2020 – Las Vegas
T	Derwin Gray	D7-2019 – Pittsburgh
TE	Mike Gesicki	D2-2018 – Miami
T	Anthony Coyle	FA-2018 – Houston
RB	Chase Edmonds	D4-2018 – Arizona
T	Brendan Mahon	FA-2018 – Carolina
T	Donovan Smith	D2-2015 – Tampa Bay