After spending three seasons with South Alabama as tight ends coach, Rob Ezell was elevated to the position of offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in Feb. 2024.
Ezell brings with him to South Alabama national championship experience both as a student-athlete and a staff member at the University of Alabama.
He helped coach Lincoln Sefcik to third team All-Sun Belt honors in his first year with the program as he posted 32 receptions for 218 yards and five touchdowns, the highest total recorded by an individual at the position since current Seattle Seahawk Gerald Everett had eight during the 2015 season.
Ezell spent five years on the staff at Alabama, where after beginning as a graduate assistant in 2016 — aiding current Oregon head coach Mario Cristobal with the offensive line and tight ends — he moved to an offensive analyst role his last four seasons with the program.  During that time, the Crimson Tide posted a 65-5 overall mark and a 39-3 record in Southeastern Conference play while winning the College Football Playoff championship in 2017 and ’20 and reaching the title game on two other occasions.
As a graduate assistant at Colorado State from 2012-14, Ezell worked with wide receivers and quarterbacks and helped the Rams go 18-9 overall with an 11-5 record in Mountain West Conference action his final two years with the program. Â CSU capped an 8-6 campaign in 2013 with a 48-45 victory over Washington State in the Gildan New Mexico Bowl, while the following season the Rams posted a 10-3 mark after participating in the Royal Purple Las Vegas Bowl.
Ezell is a 2011 Alabama graduate, earning a business degree while a walk-on with the Crimson Tide program; when the team won the national championship in 2009 and again the following fall.  He began his coaching career as a student assistant there before going on to receive his master’s degree in adult education from Colorado State in 2014.
A four-year starter as a quarterback at Athens High, Ezell was twice named first-team all-state by the Alabama Sports Writers Association and was selected by the organization as the 5A Back of the Year as a senior after helping lead the Golden Eagles to the state title that season and was named the MVP of the state championship game.
The Ezell File
Born: Nov. 3, 1988, in Athens, Ala.
Education:
Alabama ’11, bachelor’s degree in business
Colorado State ’14, master’s degree in adult education
Collegiate Playing Experience:
Four years, wide receiver/quarterback
Won 2009 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision national championship
Coaching Experience:
Alabama — student assistant coach, 2011; graduate assistant coach 2015-16; analyst, 2017-20
Colorado State — graduate assistant coach, 2012-14
South Alabama — assistant coach, 2021-
Family: Wife, Lulu; One son, Sam
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