Brian Picucci (pi-COO-chee) enters his first season in Jacksonville in 2026 as run game coordinator. He joins the Jaguars after two seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers as offensive line coach (2025) and assistant offensive line coach (2024).
Over Picucci's last two seasons working with the Buccaneers' offensive line, the team has allowed the third fewest pressures per Pro Football Focus (388) and the 13th fewest sacks (78.0) in the NFL. Tampa Bay has also ranked in the top 10 in the league in multiple rushing categories since 2024, including yards per rush (4.7; fifth), rushing first downs (252; tied-sixth) and rushing yards per game (131.9; seventh). The team's 360.0 yards per game ranked sixth in the NFL over that span, adding an average of 228.1 passing yards per game (seventh in the NFL). Under Picucci's guidance, T Tristan Wirfs earned his fourth and fifth consecutive Pro Bowl selections, the most of any offensive lineman in franchise history.
In 2024, Picucci assisted a Tampa Bay offense led by current Jaguars Head Coach and former Buccaneers Offensive Coordinator Liam Coen that finished in the top five in points scored (29.5 per game), total yards (399.6), passing yards (250.4), rushing yards (149.2), first downs (23.2) and third-down conversion percentage (50.9 percent). The offensive line finished tied for fifth in highest opponent average time to sack at 5.0 seconds. T Tristan Wirfs received AP First-Team All-Pro honors as well as his fourth Pro Bowl selection.
Before heading to Tampa Bay, Picucci served as a quality control coach for offense at the University of Kentucky in 2023. He worked closely with then Offensive Coordinator Liam Coen, who he coached at UMass from 2005-08.
Prior to his time with the Wildcats, Picucci served as the offensive coordinator and tight ends coach with the NFL Alumni Academy (2022) and as the wide receivers coach at Florida International
University (2021). His previous NFL coaching experience came with the Detroit Lions during the 2018-19 seasons, where he was the assistant tight ends coach and an offensive assistant under Matt Patricia.
Other stops on Picucci's 31-year coaching journey include the University of Maine (2016-17), Becker College (2015), Widener University (2014), Central Connecticut State University (2013), the University of Massachusetts (1998-99, 2004-12), Northeastern University (2000-03), and Southern Connecticut State (1994-97).
Picucci's longest coaching tenure came at UMass, where he spent 11 total years (1998-99, 2004-12). He served as the run game coordinator/offensive line coach from 2004-08 before being promoted to offensive coordinator in 2009, a position he held until 2012. While at UMass, Picucci's squad led the Coastal Athletic Association (CAA) in total offense in 2009 and 2010 and led the league in pass offense in 2010.
Picucci mentored a 1,000-yard rusher in seven of his eight seasons and led UMass to the 2006 Division I-AA National Championship game and conference titles in back-to-back years (2006-07). During his first stint at UMass (1998-99), Picucci assisted with the offensive line (1998) and coached the interior defensive line (1999). In 1998, he helped coach UMass to the 1998 1-AA National Championship.
Picucci returned to UMass in 2004, where he would mentor 19 All-Conference players and eight All-Americans from 2004-11, one of them being Coen.
Picucci, a native of Leominster, Massachusetts, graduated from Syracuse University with a bachelor's degree in education in 1994. While at Syracuse, Picucci earned three varsity letters with the Orange as a fullback/tight end (1989-93).
