Ronald Curry is going from an perfectly acceptable commuter (Derek) Carr to a tank that moves like a sports car and is armed with a rocket launcher.

The Buffalo Bills hired Curry as their quarterbacks coach on Wednesday. Curry will work with Josh Allen, who led the NFL with 44 total touchdowns in 2023.

Curry, 44, spent the last eight seasons with the New Orleans Saints, including the last two as their quarterbacks coach and passing coordinator. In 2023, the Saints ranked 13th in passing yards and ninth in touchdown passes in Derek Carr's first season in New Orleans.

The former NFL wide receiver was an offensive assistant (2016-2017), wide receivers coach (2018-2020) and quarterbacks coach (2021) before taking on the dual quarterbacks coach/passing game coordinator role (2022-2023).

Here's what to know about Curry:

Ronald Curry is reuniting with Joe Brady

Ronald Curry and current Bills offensive coordinator Joe Brady were on the Sean Payton's Saints coaching staff in 2017 and 2018. Brady was an offensive assistant both years and Curry was an offensive assistant in 2017 and wide receivers coach in 2018.

Buffalo's quarterbacks coach spot was made vacant when Brady was made interim offensive coordinator midway through last season and then gave him the full-time gig for 2024.

Saints wanted to keep Ronald Curry but he decided to move on

New Orleans reportedly offered to move Curry from quarterbacks coach to wide receivers coach − a title he held with the organization from 2018-2020 − but he declined.

Curry, who is popular with his players, interviewed for the Saints' vacant offensive coordinator position in January but New Orleans plans to sign Klint Kubiak for the role. Kubiak is one of Kyle Shanahan's top assistants with the San Francisco 49ers and will join New Orleans after the Super Bowl.

Sean Payton tried to lure Curry to the Denver Broncos last year but Curry opted to remain in New Orleans.

Ronald Curry has worked with less and developed talent

Future Hall of Famer Drew Brees played 15 seasons with the Saints but he retired before Curry got to be his quarterbacks coach. That left Curry to mentor Jameis Winston, Taysom Hill, Trevor Siemian and Iak Book starting under center in Curry's first year in 2021. The Saints still went 9-8 and nearly made the playoffs.

Andy Dalton had a career-best 66.7% completion percentage working with Curry in 2022.

Curry was the wide receivers coach when Michael Thomas set the NFL single-season receptions record with 149 in 2019.

Ronald Curry was MVP of the McDonald's All-American basketball game

Curry was a high-school All-American in basketball and football at Hampton High School in Virginia.

He was the MVP of the McDonald's All-American game with 19 points, 13 rebounds and 9 assists in a game that featured 14 players who went on the play in the NBA. Curry also won the McDonald's Slam Dunk contest.

Curry led the Hampton football team to three straight state titles and set multiple state records, including 11,519 total yards and 8,212 passing yards. He finished his high school career with 90 passing touchdowns, 74 rushing touchdowns, and 22 return touchdowns. Curry was the top recruit in the nation and the 1997 USA Today High School Football Player of the Year.

He won the Dial Award as the national high school scholar athlete of the year in 1997.

Ronald Curry was a two-sport athlete at North Carolina

Curry initially verbally committed to play basketball and football at his home-state University of Virginia before opting to attend the University of North Carolina. That led to Virginia fans turning on him.

Curry was a four-year starter for the Tar Heels football team and set the then-school record with 4,987 passing yards. He was named MVP of the 1998 Las Vegas Bowl and 2001 Peach Bowl.

He played point guard on the UNC basketball team with fellow two-sport star Julius Peppers.

Ronald Curry switched to wide receiver in the NFL

Curry was selected by the then-Oakland Raiders in the seventh round of the 2022 NFL Draft. He was converted to wide receiver and caught 193 passes for 2,347 yards and 13 touchdowns over seven seasons with the Raiders.

He began his coaching career at the high school level in 2010 jumped to the NFL as an offensive assistant with the San Francisco 49ers in 2014.

Bills add Jahmile Addae and Christian Taylor to coaching staff

Buffalo made two additional hires on Wednesday. Jahmile Addae was named cornerbacks coach and Christian Taylor was added a defensive quality control coach. The Bills moved on from defensive backs coach John Butler after six seasons.

Addae spent the past two seasons at the secondary coach at the University of Miami and won a national championship with the University of Georgia as the defensive backs coach in 2021. He was a two-time All-Big East selection as a defensive back at West Virginia.

Taylor is a former quarterback at William & Mary, the alma mater of Bills head coach Sean McDermott, and was most recently the offensive coordinator and running backs coach at the college.

This article originally appeared on Rochester Democrat and Chronicle: Bills hire Ronald Curry, ex-NFL player and basketball star, as QB coach from Saints