Who Is Jonathan Brewer? Duke's New Offensive Coordinator Who Was Hired By Duke's New Head Coach Manny Diaz
Who is Jonathan Brewer?
Duke’s new offensive coordinator who was hired by Duke’s new Head Coach Manny Diaz.
Jonathan Brewer, Manny Diaz are familiar with one another because Jonathan Brewer was Miami’s senior offensive quality control coach during 2020-2021 seasons.
While on Manny Diaz coaching staff at Miami Miami ranked in the top-30 in fourth down conversion percentage, passing offense, passing efficiency, and scoring offense.
Miami's 2021 squad finished the regular season winning five of its last six games, including wins over top-20 opponents in No. 18 NC State and No. 17 Pittsburgh. The 2020 Hurricanes finished 8-3 (7-2 ACC) overall, marking the second time in program history Miami won seven ACC games. That team concluded the year 18th in the final College Football Playoff rankings.
In that first season, the Hurricanes jumped from No. 122 in the FBS to No. 17 in red zone offense (+107), from No. 98 to No. 32 in total offense (+66), from No. 90 to No. 26 in scoring offense (+64), from No. 84 to No. 20 in first downs gained (+64), and from No. 52 to No. 29 in passing offense (+23).
Jonathan Brewer comes to Durham to join Manny Diaz coaching staff following coaching two seasons at Southern Methodist University.
as the quarterbacks coach for two seasons (2022-23). He was elevated his final year to co-offensive coordinator.
While in Dallas, Brewer helped the Mustangs to an 18-8 overall record and a 13-3 mark in American Athletic Conference play. SMU earned consecutive bowl invitations and claimed the 2023 American Athletic Conference title following a 26-14 victory over Tulane.
During his two seasons, the Mustangs' offense ranked in the top-15 nationally in red zone offense, scoring offense and total offense. Additionally during his final year, SMU ranked in the top-25 in 11 major categories – fifth in first down offense (312), sixth in scoring offense (40.6) and passing yards per completion (14.82), ninth in red zone offense (.929) and tackles for loss allowed (3.77), 13th in sacks allowed (1.15), 14th in total offense (465.5), 16th in team passing efficiency (156.09), 19th in passing offense (285.1), 20th in turnovers lost (13) and 24th in fumbles lost (5). The Mustangs also ranked third in the country in scoring offense in the first half, trailing just Oregon and Oklahoma.
Individually in 2023, Brewer mentored eight to All-AAC honors, including quarterback Preston Stone who garnered third team nods during his first year as the Mustangs' starter. The Dallas, Texas, native completed 206-of-344 pass attempts for 3,197 yards with 28 touchdowns against six interceptions and was tabbed a three-time AAC Offensive Player of the Week selection. Stone ranked 10th nationally in passing touchdowns, 15th in passing efficiency (161.3), 21st in passing yards, and 23rd in passing yards per game (266.4) and total offense (282.9)
In his first season as the quarterbacks coach at SMU, Brewer helped the Mustangs' set school marks in passing yards (4,117) and first downs (331), while also ranking second in program lore for passing touchdowns (36) and total plays (1,005) and third in scoring (484), passing yards per game (316.7), completion percentage (.649), completions (333), total offense (6,147) and first downs passing (174).
Under Brewer's guidance in 2022, quarterback Tanner Mordecai ranked eighth nationally in passing touchdowns (33) and 11th in passing yards per game (293.7). In his final season, he set SMU's career record for touchdown passes (72), touchdowns responsible for (76), games with four-plus passing touchdowns (7), and 300-yard passing games (13). He also finished second in program history in career total offense (7454) and third in passing yards (7,152).
Mordecai set the program and American Athletic Conference single-game mark with nine touchdown passes against Houston in 2022. Seven of those scores came in the opening frame, to tie an NCAA record for touchdown passes in a half. He became the only player in FBS history to have seven passing touchdowns and one rushing touchdown in a half. He joined Lamar Jackson (vs. Charlotte, 2016) as the only FBS players on record with eight touchdowns responsible for in a half.
According to article on goduke.com