The Los Angeles Rams made Ra’Shaad Samples the youngest position coach in the NFL this year when they hired him as their running backs coach at the age of 27. He made the jump to the pros after spending six years total with Houston, Texas and SMU, but he’s heading back to the college level already.
According to Pete Thamel, Arizona State is hiring Samples as their wide receivers coach and will have a “large role with the offense, including bringing Rams concepts into scheme.”
Sources: Arizona State is hiring Ra’Shaad Samples from the LA Rams, who was the youngest position coach in the NFL last year. He’s going to coach wide receivers and have large role with the offense, including bringing Rams concepts into scheme.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) December 6, 2022
Prior to joining the Rams, Samples was SMU’s running backs coach in 2020 and 2021, adding the title of assistant head coach in his final year with the team in 2021. He started there as an offensive assistant in 2019 after being an assistant WRs coach at Texas in 2018.
It’s been a rough year for the Rams’ running backs but that’s not the fault of Samples. He’s clearly a bright offensive mind and now gets to take what he learned with the Rams and bring it to the Sun Devils offense.
