{"id":491075,"date":"2026-01-04T05:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491075\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T05:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T05:30:12","slug":"jordan-gross-to-coach-utahs-offensive-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/491075\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Gross to Coach Utah\u2019s Offensive Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

SALT LAKE CITY <\/strong>\u2014 Utah alumnus Jordan Gross has been tabbed to coach the team’s offensive line, joining Morgan Scalley<\/a>‘s staff in January 2026. Gross lettered with the Utes from 1999-2002 and has spent the last four seasons as head coach at Fruitland High School in Idaho.
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\n“Jordan Gross is not only one of the best offensive tackles to ever play the game, he is also an elite teacher and coach,” Scalley said. “Jordan has had many opportunities to coach over the past several years both at the collegiate and NFL levels and I’m elated that our offer to come home was one he felt he couldn’t turn down.”
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\nGross’ 2025 Fruitland squad went 10-1 and won the Snake River Valley Conference title. His team was bolstered up front by five-star recruit Kelvin Obot<\/a>, who signed with Utah this past December as the top player in Idaho and the No. 4 offensive tackle in the country.
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\n“I am beyond excited to be back home at the U,” Gross said. “The opportunity to be a part of Coach Scalley’s staff is the chance of a lifetime and great days are ahead. I can’t wait to give everything I have to the O Line group and carry on the proud tradition of OBLOCK. Let’s roll!! Go Utes!!”
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\nGross played his entire 11-year professional career (2003-13) with the Carolina Panthers, after being selected eighth overall by the Panthers in the 2003 NFL Draft. He helped the team to a Super Bowl appearance as a rookie and totaled 167 appearances and starts over his career. It was the most starts of any player in franchise history and fourth-most games played. He protected for the likes of Jake Delhomme, Cam Newton, Vinny Testaverde and David Carr.
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\nOne of Carolina’s most consistent linemen in franchise history, his 167 games are the most of any lineman. He played in nine playoff games as a Panther, tied for the third-most playoff appearances in franchise history.
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\nWith Gross in the trenches, Carolina racked up 22,138 rushing yards\u2014ranking fifth-most in the NFL over his 11 seasons. He was a three-time Pro Bowl selection and earned AP All-Pro in 2008. Gross was inducted into Carolina’s Hall of Honor in 2019.
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\nSince retirement from the NFL, Gross remained around the Panthers as a television and radio analyst. He has been a part of the radio broadcast team as a color analyst and a host of the weekly Jordan and Jake podcast with Jake Delhomme.
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\nAs a player at Utah, Gross became the program’s first Outland Trophy finalist in 2002 as well as the first Utah offensive lineman to earn consensus All-American. He was a three-time Mountain West All-Mountain West selection (2000-02) and was named to the league’s 10th Anniversary Team.
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\nGross and his wife, Dana, who also graduated from the U, have three children, Boone, Rainey and Teddy.
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