Indiana football has already filled its lone coaching staff vacancy for next season.
The Hoosiers have hired Chandler Whitmer as their quarterbacks coach and co-offensive coordinator for 2025, an Indiana Athletics spokesperson confirmed to the Indiana Daily Student on Friday morning. ESPN’s Pete Thamel first reported the news.
Whitmer is currently the Atlanta Falcons’ pass-game specialist, a role that puts him in the coaches’ box alongside the team’s offensive coordinator, Zac Robinson. It also allows him to work on developing quarterbacks and distributing information to fellow assistant coaches.
Indiana hired Whitmer to replace Tino Sunseri, who will become the offensive coordinator at UCLA once the Hoosiers’ season ends.
Whitmer, 33, started 24 games at quarterback from 2012-14 at the University of Connecticut and earned an invite to the Philadelphia Eagles’ rookie minicamp in 2015. He left football until 2018, when he entered the coaching ranks as an offensive quality control coach at Yale University.
In 2019, Whitmer was a graduate assistant at Ohio State. He left for Clemson University in 2020, serving as an offensive graduate assistant.
The Newnan, Georgia, native ascended to the NFL thereafter, working as an offensive quality control coach for the Los Angeles Chargers from 2021-23 before joining the Falcons’ coaching staff Feb. 2, 2024.
Now, Whitmer’s coaching journey will take him to Bloomington — but only after the conclusion of Indiana’s dream season.
The Hoosiers (11-1) face the University of Notre Dame (11-1) at 8 p.m. Friday inside Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend, Indiana, to kick off the College Football Playoff.
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