Contract details revealed for Jedd Fisch at Washington

Multiple reports have suggested that Arizona head coach Jedd Fisch will become the next head coach of the Washington Huskies, following in the footsteps of Kalen DeBoer after he recently accepted the head coaching job at Alabama.

Fisch has not officially been named as Washington’s new head man, but according to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the details of his contract with the Huskies have already been revealed.

Thamel revealed that per The Athletic, Fisch is expected to ink a seven-year deal with Washington that will pay him $7.75 million per year.

Can confirm that Jedd Fisch's deal with Washington will be for seven years at an average of $7.75 million per year. @TheAthletic first reported the terms. https://t.co/u4X0vRWofs

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 14, 2024

Fisch was in the midst of a five-year contract with the Wildcats worth $18.3 million, reaching an agreement on principle with the program to restructure his contract according to Justin Spears and Michael Lev of the Arizona Daily Star. But now it’s clear that Fisch will be receiving a new, more lucrative deal with a new program ahead of the 2024 football season.

Fisch returns to Seattle after being the quarterbacks coach for the Seattle Seahawks in 2010, boasting experience at the NFL and collegiate level as a coach. After being a graduate assistant with the Florida Gators for two seasons in 1999 and 2000, Fisch took his talents to the NFL, making stops with the Houston Texans, Baltimore Ravens, and Denver Broncos before landing the first coordinator job of his career at Minnesota in 2009.

Fisch would continue jumping back and forth between jobs at the pro and college level, spending time as the offensive coordinator for the Miami Hurricanes, Jacksonville Jaguars, and UCLA Bruins as well as stints with Michigan, the Los Angeles Rams, and the New England Patriots in various offensive assistant roles.

After spending one season as the Patriots’ quarterbacks coach in 2020, Fisch was hired as the 32nd head coach of the Arizona Wildcats. Serving as the first head coaching job of his career aside from his time as the interim head coach of UCLA in the final two games of the 2017 season following the firing of Jim Mora.

Fisch inherited an Arizona program that went winless in the shortened 2020 season and only won one game in his first year at the helm. But he quickly turned things around with Arizona finishing 5-7 in 2022 and an impressive 10-3 last season capped off with an Alamo Bowl win and a top 15 ranking.

The Washington program won’t need to be turned around upon Fisch’s arrival, with DeBoer leading the Huskies to a 25-3 record in his two seasons with the team along with a national championship appearance this past season. But it will be interesting to see if Fisch can maintain the program’s recent success and make Washington’s investment in him a wise one.