Tennessee Titans coach Brian Callahan has found his right-hand man to help design his offense.

The Titans plan to hire Jacksonville Jaguars passing game coordinator Nick Holz as their next offensive coordinator, according to reports from ESPN and NFL Network. The offensive-minded Callahan already has said he intends to call plays for the Titans in 2024 but that his offensive coordinator and the entire offensive staff will be instrumental in helping design plays and game plans.

It will be similar to how it worked in Cincinnati, where Callahan spent five seasons as the offensive coordinator but didn't call plays.

Holz and Callahan previously worked together with the Oakland Raiders and were high school classmates. Holz's first job in coaching was in 2007 under Callahan's father, Bill, when the elder Callahan was the head coach at Nebraska.

Get to know Nick Holz, the Titans' new offensive coordinator

Holz, 39, worked with the Raiders from 2012 through 2021, serving in various capacities ranging from quality control and general assistant positions to assistant receivers coach. He made the jump to the college level in 2022, taking a promotion to be the offensive coordinator at UNLV for one season before returning to the NFL with the Jaguars in 2023.

Holz's UNLV offense ranked sixth in the Mountain West Conference in yards per game and fifth in points per game. That was a stark turnaround for an offense that in the year prior to his arrival finished 119th out of 130 FBS teams in yards per game and 111th in points per game.

Callahan and Holz also played high school football together at De La Salle in Concord, California, each a part of a team that didn't lose a game in their four years there. They parted ways after high school, with Holz attending Colorado and Callahan going to UCLA. But the pair linked up again in 2018 when Callahan was hired as the Raiders' quarterbacks coach and Holz was still on staff as an offensive quality control coach.

About the Titans' offensive coordinator job

Holz will be the Titans' sixth offensive coordinator since 2017. Two of those coordinators — Matt LaFleur and Arthur Smith — left Nashville for head coaching opportunities, while the others were either casualties of head coaching changes or dismissed as their units struggled.

Under offensive coordinator Tim Kelly in 2023, the offense ranked 28th in the NFL in scoring and total offense. The Titans had the fourth-worst passing offense in the NFL as veteran Ryan Tannehill and rookie Will Levis struggled to build a rhythm behind one of the league's worst offensive lines and as injuries decimated the already-thin receiving corps.

Nick Suss is the Titans beat writer for The Tennessean. Contact Nick at nsuss@gannett.com. Follow Nick on X, the platform formerly called Twitter, @nicksuss.

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