Experience, experience, experience. Coach Chip Kelly of UCLA football will have the second-most returning production in all of the Football Bowl Subdivision next season as he has the opportunity to claim his first winning season in Westwood in four tries. Read more...
Photo: UCLA football coach Chip Kelly returns the third-most offensive production and the eighth-most defensive production as he starts his fourth season in Westwood. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin staff)
The Bruins will have a new man in Dorian Thompson-Robinson’s ear. In the same offseason that it promoted a new wide receivers coach, UCLA football also hired Ryan Gunderson in February to take over as quarterbacks coach following the departure of Dana Bible, who held the position since 2018 when coach Chip Kelly took the reins in Westwood. Read more...
Photo: Rising senior quarterback Dorian Thompson-Robinson will have a new quarterbacks coach for the first time in his UCLA football career, as Ryan Gunderson will be his new man on the sideline come fall. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin senior staff)
After 210 picks of waiting, Demetric Felton will be heading to the NFL Draft’s host city. The former UCLA football running back and wide receiver was drafted 211th overall to the Cleveland Browns on Saturday. Read more...
Photo: UCLA football had its second player selected in the 2021 NFL Draft when Demetric Felton was chosen by the Cleveland Browns in the sixth round. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin staff)
The Dallas Cowboys hadn’t picked a Bruin in over 30 years. That streak is over. Dallas selected former UCLA football defensive lineman Osa Odighizuwa with the No. Read more...
Photo: Former UCLA football defensive lineman Osa Odighizuwa was selected by the Dallas Cowboys with the No. 75 overall pick of the 2021 NFL Draft on Friday night. Odighizuwa averaged over three sacks per 12 games in his time in Westwood. (Andy Bao/Daily Bruin staff)
While the receiving corps on the field will largely stay the same, it will have a new leader on the sidelines. During the offseason, UCLA football promoted Jerry Neuheisel – son of former Bruin head coach Rick Neuheisel – to be the team’s new wide receivers coach, succeeding Jimmie Dougherty, who was on the Bruin staff for the past four years and left to be an assistant coach at Arizona in January. Read more...
Photo: After seven years with the program – including four as a player under former coach Jim Mora – former UCLA football quarterback Jerry Neuheisel was named the team’s wide receivers coach in the offseason. (Daily Bruin file photo)
Last year’s NFL Draft marked a busy weekend for the Bruins. Three former UCLA football players heard their names called in the virtual ceremony – tight end Devin Asiasi, cornerback Darnay Holmes and running back Joshua Kelley. Read more...
Photo: (Photo by Andy Bao/Daily Bruin staff. Photo illustration by Kanishka Mehra/Photo editor)
When assistant head coach Brian Norwood arrived in Westwood last year, the Bruins’ defense was in for a makeover. The former Navy defensive coordinator added a striker position and new 4-2-5 look to the playbook, and – under his and defensive coordinator Jerry Azzinaro’s guidance – UCLA football’s defense became far more aggressive and active in the backfield than it was in 2019. Read more...
Photo: Rising senior linebacker Caleb Johnson and his 5.5 sacks a year ago were part of a much-improved UCLA football defense that led the Pac-12 with 3.29 sacks per game. (Liz Ketcham/Daily Bruin senior staff)
