Sean McVay loves bringing coaches onto his staff from the collegiate level, doing so in the past with Jedd Fisch, Jimmy Lake and several others. Former UCF and Nebraska head coach Scott Frost is the latest to join McVay in Los Angeles, a move that was confirmed on Monday ahead of the Rams’ season opener.
McVay is excited to have Frost on his staff, sharing a little bit about what his role will be. He’ll primarily help on special teams, which makes sense after the Rams let assistant Chili Davis go last week, but he’ll also assist on offense and defense, too.
He’ll help Chase [Blackburn] out with special teams, but he’ll also have involvement on offense and defense,” McVay said. “Just to be able to get a quality caliber coach like him in the building – as you guys know, we’ve had a lot of turnover for the right reasons and you can’t have enough good quality people in-house. Really to get him in and it was something that he wanted to do. Like I said, the mutual connections. There’s a lot of people that are excited about it.”
Frost led UCF to a 13-0 record in just his second season in 2017 before being hired as Nebraska’s head coach in 2018, but he didn’t have as much success in Lincoln. He finished his five-year tenure there with a record of 16-31, never reaching a bowl game and only cracking the AP top 25 poll once at No. 24.
After a year out of coaching in 2023, he’s back in the mix with the Rams this year and McVay is excited about it.
