Joey Halzle

Joey Halzle (born January 29, 1986) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the offensive coordinator at the University of Tennessee.

Joey Halzle
Halzle in 2007
Current position
TitleOffensive coordinator
TeamTennessee
ConferenceSEC
Biographical details
Born (1986-01-29) January 29, 1986
Alma materOklahoma (2008)
Playing career
2006–2008Oklahoma
Position(s)Quarterback
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2009–2011Oklahoma (QC)
2012–2014Oklahoma (GA)
2015Utah State (OA/assistant QB)
2016Missouri (OA/assistant QB)
2019UCF (OA)
2020UCF (QB)
2021–2022Tennessee (QB)
2023–presentTennessee (OC/QB)

Early years

Hazle grew up in Huntington Beach, California and attended Oaks Christian High School. He committed to play college football at Oklahoma.[1]

College career

In his three years at Oklahoma he played in 21 games, completing 53 of his 83 passes for 640 yards and four touchdowns with two interceptions.[2][3]

Coaching career

Halzle spent the first five years at Oklahoma as a quality control coach and a graduate assistant. From there he would become Utah State's assistant QB coach for one year. From there he moved on to Missouri for one year as their assistant QB Coach.[4] It would be until 2019 in where he would receive his next coaching job at UCF as an offensive assistant for one year.[5] In the following season UCF would promote Halzle to be their QB coach. As the QB coach for UCF he helped quarterback Dillon Gabriel have a steller year completing 248 of his 413 passes for 3570 yards and 32 touchdowns, to only four interceptions.[6][7] After his stint with UCF he would be hired as the QB Coach at Tennessee.[8][9] After coaching the QB position for two years helping Hendon Hooker enjoy a breakout year in 2022 and after he helped Tennessee win the Orange Bowl, Halzle was promoted to be Tennessee's next offensive coordinator.[10][11]

References
  1. "Joey Halzle, Oklahoma, Quarterback". 247Sports. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  2. "Joey Halzle Stats". Football Database. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  3. "Joey Halzle". Sports Reference. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  4. "JOEY HALZLE". Tennessee Athletics. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  5. "JOEY HALZLE". UCF Athletics. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  6. Ray, Matt. "A Look at Tennessee's New QB Coach Joey Halzle". Sports Illustrated. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  7. Murphy, Brian. "UCF Names New QBs Coach, Co-Offensive Coordinators". Black and Gold Banneret. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  8. "New Tennessee football coach Heupel brings 3 UCF assistants". Albuquerque Journal. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  9. Young, Mason. "OU football: Former Sooner quarterback Joey Halzle hired by Josh Heupel as Tennessee quarterbacks coach". OU Daily. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  10. Thamel, Pete. "Tennessee promotes QB coach Joey Halzle to offensive coordinator". ESPN. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
  11. Sparks, Adam. "New Tennessee offensive coordinator Joey Halzle got big raise, extension before Orange Bowl". Knoxville News Sentinel. Retrieved 20 May 2023.
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