Oregon State has agreed to terms on a five-year deal to make Alabama co-offensive coordinator JaMarcus Shephard as the school’s next coach, Pete Thamel reported Friday.
Shephard is also Alabama’s assistant head coach and wide receiver coach.
Alabama is averaging 33.8 points, ranking sixth in the SEC, behind the 2,934 passing yards of Ty Simpson.
Shephard spent five years as a quarterbacks and a wide receivers coach at Western Kentucky under coaches Willie Taggart, Bobby Petrino and Jeff Brohm. He then spent a year at Washington State as a receivers coach under Mike Leach.
He then spent five more years under Brohm at Purdue as a receivers coach, passing game coordinator, then a co-offensive coordinator for the Boilermakers.
Shephard then joined DeBoer at Washington from 2022-23.
Shephard replaces Trent Bray, who was fired last month after the Beavers started this season with seven straight losses and posted a 5-14 record in his two seasons at the school.
