The Arizona Cardinals are adding a coach from the national champion Ohio State Buckeyes to their staff. After the Dallas Cowboys hired offensive line coach Klayton Adams to be their offensive coordinator, per multiple reports, the Cardinals are replacing him with Ohio State offensive line coach Justin Frye.
NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport had it first.
Frye spent the last three seasons as the Buckeyes’ O-line coach and coached Cardinals left tackle Paris Johnson, the team’s 2023 first-round pick, during his final season at Ohio State.
Frye was a graduate assistant from 2007-2010 for Indiana and Florida, each school for two years. After that, he was the offensive line coach for Temple in 2011-2012, Boston College from 2013-2017 before going to UCLA in 2018 working for head coach Chip Kelly. He was the O-line coach in 2018 and from 2019-2021 was offensive coordinator and offensive line coach, before going to Ohio State.
The Buckeyes won the national championship despite losing starting left tackle Justin Simmons and starting center Seth McLaughlin to season-ending injuries.
He will work with a Cardinals offensive line that has some uncertainty. Johnson and starting right tackle Jonah Williams both had season-ending knee injuries, while tackle Kelvin Beachum and guards Will Hernandez, Evan Brown and Trystan Colon will be free agents next month.
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