Jeff Brohm

Jeff Brohm

Brohm in 2023
Louisville Cardinals
Position:	Head coach
Personal information
Born:	(1971-04-24) April 24, 1971 (age 53) Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight:	205 lb (93 kg)
Career information
High school:	Louisville (KY) Trinity
College:	Louisville
Undrafted:	1994
Career history
As a player:
San Diego Chargers (1994) Washington Redskins (1995)* San Francisco 49ers (1995–1997) Tampa Bay Buccaneers (1998) Denver Broncos (1999) Cleveland Browns (2000) Orlando Rage (2001)
* Offseason and/or practice squad member only
As a coach:
Louisville Fire (2002) Head coach Louisville (2003–2006) Quarterbacks coach Louisville (2007) Assistant head coach & passing game coordinator Louisville (2008) Assistant head coach & offensive coordinator Florida Atlantic (2009) Quarterbacks coach Illinois (2010–2011) Quarterbacks coach UAB (2012) Offensive coordinator & quarterbacks coach Western Kentucky (2013) Assistant head coach, offensive coordinator & quarterbacks coach Western Kentucky (2014–2016) Head coach Purdue (2017–2022) Head coach Louisville (2023–present) Head coach
Career highlights and awards
As coach 2× C-USA Championships (2015, 2016) 2× C-USA East Division champion (2015, 2016) Big Ten West Division champion (2022) As player Liberty Bowl MVP (1993) Louisville Cardinals Ring of Honor 2001 All-XFL Team
Career NFL statistics
TD–INT: 1–1 Passing yards: 353 Passer rating: 79.2
Head coaching record
Career:	76–48 (college) 2–14 (AF2)
Player stats at PFR

Jeffrey Scott Brohm (born April 24, 1971) is an American football coach and former quarterback. He is the head football coach at his alma mater, the University of Louisville, a position he has held since the 2023 season. Brohm played college football for the Louisville Cardinals under coach Howard Schnellenberger from 1989 to 1993. He played professionally in the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons from 1994 to 2000 and the XFL in 2001. Brohm served as the head football coach at Western Kentucky University from 2014 to 2016 and Purdue University from 2017 to 2022.

Brohm was born in Louisville, Kentucky. His father, Oscar, was a quarterback for Louisville and a high school football coach in Louisville. He attended Trinity High School in Louisville, Kentucky. After graduation from high school, he was selected by the Montreal Expos in the seventh round of the 1989 MLB Draft, but he instead decided to pursue playing football and baseball at the University of Louisville. After spending his freshman season as a backup quarterback, he was once again selected in the MLB Draft, this time in the fourth round by the Cleveland Indians. This time Brohm had a change of heart and decided to pursue a professional baseball career in the summers when he wasn't playing football. After two summers, he decided to drop baseball and focus solely on football. As starting quarterback for two seasons, he led the Cardinals to the 1993 Liberty Bowl.

Brohm went undrafted in the 1994 NFL Draft. He played seven years as a quarterback in the NFL, with the San Diego Chargers in 1994, the Washington Redskins in 1995, the San Francisco 49ers from 1995 to 1997, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 1998, the Denver Broncos in 1999 and the Cleveland Browns in 2000. He also played one season with the Orlando Rage of the XFL, where he was named to the All-XFL team despite having his season end early with a shoulder injury.

In 2002, Brohm moved to the AF2 where he became the head coach of the Louisville Fire. Brohm returned to the University of Louisville in 2003 to work under Bobby Petrino. He spent the next six years as a quarterback coach, passing game coordinator, offensive coordinator, and assistant head coach for the Cardinals and helped them win the 2007 Orange Bowl. In 2009, Brohm went to Florida Atlantic University, where he was reunited with Schnellenberger as offensive coordinator. Brohm then went on to coach at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2010 to 2011, at the University of Alabama at Birmingham in 2012, and reuniting with Petrino at Western Kentucky University in 2013 as an associate head coach, offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. When Petrino returned to Louisville in 2014, Brohm was promoted to head coach of the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers. As head coach, he led the team to three bowl games, winning two of them. In 2016, Brohm took the head coaching position at Purdue University.^[1] Brohm returned to Louisville as head coach in December 2022.