Garret McGuire

Garret McGuire is in his second season as Nebraska’s wide receivers coach in 2024. McGuire coached in the National Football League before joining the Cornhuskers, serving on Matt Rhule’s Carolina Panthers’ staff for two seasons.

McGuire was one of the youngest coaches in the NFL, earning a role immediately after a four-year playing career at Baylor. Coaching runs in Garret’s family as his father, Joey, won 142 games as a high school head coach in Texas before leading Texas Tech to 15 wins in the past two seasons as Texas Tech’s head coach.

 

Garret dealt with injuries to his wide receiving corps in 2023, but McGuire was able to develop three true freshmen who accounted for nearly one-quarter of Nebraska’s receiving yards. The Husker wideouts also played a key role in a run game that ranked second in the Big Ten in rushing yards per game.

 

NEBRASKA (2023)
McGuire demonstrated an ability to quickly develop players in his first season at Nebraska in 2023. Eighty-four percent of the receiving yards from McGuire’s group came from wideouts who had never caught a pass for Nebraska entering the season. Both of the Huskers’ two returning wide receivers with a career reception suffered a season-ending injury, opening the door for contributions for graduate transfer Billy Kemp IV and a quartet of underclassmen.

Kemp led Nebraska with 35 catches and 310 receiving yards in 2023, when the Huskers had three different quarterbacks start multiple games. Alex Bullock started eight games and caught 15 passes for 221 yards and one touchdown after playing only two games on special teams in his first two seasons with the program. Ty Hahn added four cathes for 36 yards, the first receptions of his four-year career. 

McGuire’s developmental ability was most noticeable with true freshmen Jaylen Lloyd, Malachi Coleman and Jaidyn Doss. Each of those freshmen did not join Nebraska until the summer, but McGuire was able to implement them into the offense quickly and by season’s end, Lloyd and Coleman were two of Nebraska’s top receivers. Lloyd finished with six catches for 237 yards and three touchdowns, averaging 39.5 yards per reception with each of his three touchdowns covering at least 58 yards. Lloyd and Ohio State’s Marvin Harrison Jr. were the only two Big Ten receivers with at least three 50-yard receptions in 2023. Coleman started six games as a true freshman and caught eight passes for 139 yards with a 44-yard touchdown. Doss played in only four games while preserving his redshirt, but he caught two passes for 20 yards.

 
BEFORE NEBRASKA
CAROLINA PANTHERS: McGuire was on Rhule’s Carolina Panthers’ staff for two seasons in 2021 and 2022. McGuire served as an offensive assistant in 2022 after a role as a coaching assistant in 2021.

In 2022, McGuire assisted with a balanced Carolina offensive attack. The Panthers were one of only eight NFL teams to have more than 3,200 passing yards and 2,200 rushing yards. The success came despite injuries that forced Carolina to have three different quarterbacks start multiple games. Despite the use of different quarterbacks, wide receiver DJ Moore ranked 15th in the NFL with seven touchdown receptions in 2022.

In his first season at Carolina in 2021, McGuire helped the Panthers get off to the third-best start in franchise history.
 
PLAYING CAREER (BAYLOR)
McGuire was a quarterback and special teams player at Baylor, playing in six games from 2017 to 2020. He was a two-time first-team Academic All-Big 12 selection with the Bears and a team captain in 2020. McGuire was coached by Rhule in his first three seasons at Baylor. McGuire’s father was an assistant coach with the Bears for each of his four seasons.

 

PERSONAL
McGuire earned his degree in health, kinesiology and leisure studies from Baylor. He is the son of Debbie and Joey McGuire, and Joey is in his second season as the head coach at Texas Tech in 2023.

 
COACHING CAREER
2023-present: Nebraska (Wide Receivers)

2022: Carolina Panthers (Offensive Assistant)
2021: Carolina Panthers (Coaching Assistant)