Pat Shurmur will be coaching football in Colorado again this fall, but not with the Denver Broncos.
The former Broncos offensive coordinator is joining Deion Sanders’ staff at the University of Colorado. Carl Reed Jr. of 247Sports first reported last week that Shurmur was expected to join the Buffaloes as an analyst.
Mike Klis of KUSA-TV later confirmed that Shurmur has indeed been hired by Sanders as an offensive analyst. The 58-year-old coach will now return to the college ranks, where his coaching career began as a graduate assistant with at Michigan State in 1988.
Shurmur served as Denver’s offensive coordinator from 2020-2021. He was fired by the Broncos following the 2021 season and he took a break from coaching in 2022 before joining CU this summer.
Denver scored 19.7 points per game in 2021 (10th-worst in the NFL) and 20.2 points per game in 2020 (fifth-worst that season). The Broncos went through four different starting QBs during that time frame (plus the Kendall Hinton game). Shurmur will now aim to bounce back at the college level and prove that Denver’s offensive struggles didn’t all fall on him.
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