Just seven months following the conclusion of his three-school, six-year college career, Noah Vedral is getting into coaching.
Kansas Athletics confirmed Friday morning that Vedral, a Wahoo, Nebraska, native who most recently played quarterback at Rutgers, will soon join Lance Leipold’s staff as a volunteer strength intern.
While he comes from a Cornhusker family — his father and three uncles all earned letters on the Nebraska football team — he possesses several current Jayhawk connections. His younger brother Ezra will be a freshman linebacker at Kansas this season, while his sister Anna is already two years in as a pole vaulter on the KU track and field team.
Kansas special teams analyst Aaron Miller and defensive tackles coach Jim Panagos overlapped with Vedral at Rutgers. Kansas Athletics declined to make Vedral available for an interview, but he told ScarletNation.com earlier this week that the two coaches helped connect him with a role.
He also told the site that he expects to assist the offensive line in the fall before ideally transitioning into a graduate assistant role on the offensive line staff next spring.
Vedral began his career backing up McKenzie Milton on the 2017 Central Florida team that went 13-0 and declared itself national champions, throwing his first touchdown pass along the way. He followed head coach Scott Frost to Nebraska and obtained a waiver to become eligible immediately, then started two games in seven appearances across two years, even making an appearance for a depleted Cornhuskers basketball team in the spring.
His most successful and prolonged tenure was with the Scarlet Knights of Rutgers, for whom he started 23 games in three seasons, including all 13 in 2021, throwing for 17 touchdowns and 16 interceptions along the way. Vedral’s 2022 season was marred by a hand injury, and he slid into more of a mentorship role for Rutgers’ younger quarterbacks. He told New Jersey reporters in November that he had started to investigate the playbook in greater detail as early as his Nebraska tenure, with a future coaching career in mind.
“That’s when I think I started realizing, ‘I think I would really like to do this. I’m intrigued by it, it holds my attention, I’m passionate about it, I like to learn it,'” he said, as quoted on NJ.com. “And then I’ve also found that I have a pretty good gift of teaching it.”
