The Jaguars announced the hiring of Offensive Line Coach George Warhop on Jan. 16, 2019, and he is entering his second season with Jacksonville in 2020. Warhop has been an offensive line coach in the NFL since 1996, most recently serving in that capacity with Tampa Bay during the 2018 season.
In 2019, Warhop's offensive line helped RB Leonard Fournette accrue a career-high 1,674 scrimmage yards (1,152 rushing yards and 522 receiving yards), including 50-plus scrimmage yards in all 15 games he played. Fournette's 111.6 scrimmage yards per game ranked fourth in the NFL last season and ranked sixth in Jacksonville's single-season history. The youngest player on the roster in 2019 was 21-year-old OL Jawaan Taylor, who became the first Jaguars rookie to start in all 16 games since OL Maurice Williams in 2001, and was named to the Pro Football Focus All-Rookie Team and the PFWA All-Rookie Team. Warhop's offensive line also helped protect for QB Gardner Minshew II, who rewrote the franchise's rookie record book in 2019, throwing for more yards (3,271) and TDs (21) than any first-year signal-caller in Jaguars history.
In 2018, Warhop instructed a unit that paved the way for a Buccaneer offense that tallied the most yards (6,648), net passing yards (5,125), first downs (388) and points scored in team history. Tampa Bay finished third in the NFL in total yards per game (415.5), while their 5,125 net passing yards ranked fourth in team history. Warhop also served as the Buccaneers run game coordinator from 2016-18, helping RB Peyton Barber gain a career-high 871 rushing yards in 2018.
In 2017, Buccaneers OL Donovan Smith joined Paul Gruberas the only players in franchise history to start all 48 games through their first three seasons. While in Tampa Bay in 2015, Warhop oversaw an offensive line that cleared the way for 135.1 rushing yards per game, the fifth-most rushing yards in the NFL and the second-most in team history. RB Doug Martin (1,402 rushing yards) finished second in the NFL in rushing yards, while OL Logan Mankinsearned a Pro Bowl nod.
Prior to his time with the Buccaneers, Warhop spent five seasons (2009-13) as the offensive line coach in Cleveland, helping OL Joe Thomas earn Pro Bowl and All-Pro honors each season. He also helped OLAlex Mack earn an all-rookie selection in 2009, as well as Pro Bowl berths in 2010 and 2013.
Warhop spent four seasons with San Francisco from 2005-08, helping the offensive line pave the way for three consecutive 1,000-yard rushing seasons by RB Frank Gore, including a franchise-record 1,695 in 2006. Warhop joined the 49ers after two seasons (2003-04) in Dallas, where he helped OL Flozell Adams and OLLarry Allen earn Pro Bowl berths each year.
Prior to his first job in the NFL as an assistant line coach with the St. Louis Rams from 1996-97, Warhop spent 11 seasons as a collegiate coach at Kansas (1984-86), Vanderbilt (1987-89), New Mexico (1990-91), Southern Methodist (1993) and Boston College (1994-95). Warhop also spent two seasons as a coach for the London Monarchs from 1991-92 in NFL Europe, where he coached then-OL and current Jaguars Head Coach Doug Marrone.
A former center at the University of Cincinnati, Warhop got his start in coaching as a student assistant at his alma mater in 1983. He and his wife, Lori, have one son, Jacob, and one daughter, Olivia.
