Buckeyes adding Miguel Patrick back to defensive coaching staff
COLUMBUS — Ohio State is bringing a former defensive assistant coach back onto the staff after two years apart.
Just two years ago, defensive quality control coach Miguel Patrick left the Buckeyes to join Trent Dilfer’s inaugural staff at UAB. But after spending two seasons as the defensive line coach for the Blazers, Patrick is returning to Ohio State to become a defensive assistant coach, multiple sources told Lettermen Row on Tuesday.
Patrick was the defensive line coach for UAB for the last two seasons, part of a duo of former Buckeyes assistants to leave the Ohio State program a couple of years ago along with Reilly Jeffers, who is still the tight ends coach at UAB. Patrick was let go from his post as the defensive line coach as part of major changes to both sides of the football from Dilfer in December.
Prior to his first stint at Ohio State, Patrick was the head coach at Crisp County High School in Georgia and powerhouse Cedar Grove High School, where he won a state title in 2019, before that.
Patrick has coached plenty of Division 1 prospects in his career, and his ties to Georgia high school football made him an intriguing hire for the Buckeyes, who are always trying to make a recruiting push in the South. That also landed him the job at UAB, along with the work he did within the Buckeyes program for a couple of seasons.
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But now after two years down South, Patrick is returning to Ohio State to help with Larry Johnson and the Buckeyes defensive line.
Other recent Ohio State defensive hires…
Patrick is the second Ohio State assistant coaching hire in the last few days, joining former UCLA outside linebackers coach and defensive line coach Tony Washington Jr. Lettermen Row reported Saturday that Washington will join the staff for this upcoming season. Washington will work with the defensive line under Larry Johnson for the Buckeyes, taking over the role that LaAllan Clark vacated when he took the outside linebackers coaching role at Texas.
Washington Jr. served as the UCLA outside linebackers coach and defensive line coach last season, but he was at Oregon as the outside linebackers coach in 2023, was the Ducks assistant defensive line coach in 2022, served as the Director of Player Development at Oregon in 2021 and was a graduate assistant at Nebraska in 2019 and 2020.
The former Oregon linebacker played for the Ducks from 2012-2015, including playing on the 2014 Oregon team that lost to Ohio State in the national championship game. He was an undrafted free agent to the Houston Texans in 2015 and played in Houston for the 2015 and 2016 seasons. He also played for the Tennessee Titans practice squad for two seasons before getting into coaching.
Washington is a Los Angeles, California, native.
