Coach Ryan Walker joins the Tigers after serving two seasons (2017, 2019) as the Offensive Coordinator at Atlantic Coast High School in Jacksonville, Florida. In 2016, prior to his coordinator stint, he was the Quarterbacks Coach at Ridgeview High School in Orange Park, Florida. He served as the Wide Receivers Coach at Pedro Menendez High School in 2015.
Most recently, Coach Walker played professional football with the Jacksonville Sharks (2015-2016, and 2018) while also training high school, college, and professional quarterbacks privately through DeBartolo Sports QB Academy, under NFL consultant Joe Dickinson and former San Francisco 49ers owner and Hall of Famer, Eddie Debartolo Jr. During the 2017 football season, Coach Walker spent time with the Pittsburgh Steelers as a road game volunteer and sideline operations assistant.
In 2014, with one year of college football participation eligibility remaining, Coach Walker enrolled as a graduate student at Florida International University and joined the Panther Football Program as one of the team’s quarterbacks, under Head Coach Ron Turner. Prior to his time at Florida International University, Coach Walker attended Jacksonville University where he earned a Bachelor Degree in Exercise Science with a Minor in Coaching. Coach Walker was a quarterback and wide receiver on the Jacksonville University Dolphins Football Team, under Head Coach Kerwin Bell. In his final year at Jacksonville University, Coach Walker led the PFL Conference with 24.7 yards per catch.
Graduating High School in 2010 from Arlington Country Day High School, Coach Walker was a member of the football team as QB, WR, and TE. Coach Walker previously attended Mandarin High School and was QB for the football team were he was coached/mentored by Head Coach Jermaine (J.D.) Hall (Bethune Cookman QB and record holder) after his family relocated from Clearwater, Florida.
He is engaged to his fiancé Theresa Schleyhahn and has two children, his daughter Mila, and his son Boston.
Coach Walker has had the opportunity to support and train numerous quarterbacks on their path to success. Most notably, Mac Jones from the University of Alabama.
