On today’s podcast, host Keith Grabowski welcomes Nick Sheridan, tight ends coach at Indiana University, to the latest episode of our “Training Camp” series. Coach Sheridan also coached the Hoosier quarterbacks in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, Sheridan was named one of the nations Top 30 coaches under 30 years of age by 247Sports.com. Prior to Indiana, Sheridan worked as an offensive grad assistant at the University of Tennessee from 2014-16. Sheridan joins the podcast today to talk about how he advances the play of the tight end position throughout training camp.

Show Notes:

1:47 Coach’s journey

3:35 How Coach’s exposure to different coaches growing up and playing shaped him

5:40 Learning in two different systems

8:57 Different aspects of coaching tight ends

11:32 Installation

16:28 Positional walkthroughs

19:02 Pillars of his TE group

22:27 Highlighting the positives during camp

25:12 Individual period time distribution

30:40 Using as many different players as possible

34:05 Evaluation process

39:53 Winning edge

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