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On Friday, the surprising news hit that Michigan linebackers coach Brian Jean-Mary was departing for Tennessee, joining Josh Heupel’s new staff. After seemingly being set on the coaching front for weeks, the Wolverines suddenly were in the market for another LB coach.
Only, they didn’t fill the vacancy with a LB coach.
Sunday morning, NFL insider Ian Rapoport reported that Jim Harbaugh went back to the Baltimore Ravens well to hire another coach away from his brother John. But, instead of hiring a linebackers coach, Harbaugh hired Ravens running backs coach Matt Weiss, who will reportedly coach quarterbacks — the position Harbaugh was finally set to oversee once again — in Ann Arbor.
Another #Ravens-to-#Michigan coaching move: Baltimore RBs coach Matt Weiss is leaving to become the Wolverines QBs coach, source said. Weiss has led the NFL’s No. 1 rushing attack under John Harbaugh, now will coach QBs under Jim Harbaugh. The two were together at Stanford.
— Ian Rapoport (@RapSheet) February 21, 2021
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Weiss is another under-40 coaching addition, and one that spent just two years as the Ravens’ running backs coach — his first on-field coaching job. A graduate of Vanderbilt, Weiss was a defensive/grad assistant at Stanford under Harbaugh, and like Mike Macdonald, he worked his way up from being a behind-the-scenes coach in Baltimore before getting a couple years in his on-field coaching role.
Though Michigan filled the coaching vacancy left by a linebackers coach, it did have a QB coach vacancy with the departure of Ben McDaniels — it was just anticipated that Harbaugh would be the one to fill that role. Likely, Macdonald, the new defensive coordinator, will oversee the linebackers as he coached linebackers with the Ravens — or the team could move George Helow to the position, as he worked with LBs at Maryland last year.
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