Football
vs
Rutgers
Oct 10 (Fri)
6:00 p.m. PT
Paul Creighton
- Title:
- Quality Control - Special Teams
- Email:
- creightp@uw.edu
Paul Creighton joins the Washington football staff for the 2022 season, a quality control coach working with special teams.
Creighton comes to UW along with new head coach Kalen DeBoer from Fresno State, where he spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as the Bulldogs' tight ends coach.
Last year, he was part of the offensive staff that helped Fresno State finish the season ranked No. 1 in the Mountain West in total offense (464.8 yards per game), and second in both scoring offense (33.4 points per game) and passing offense (330.1 yards per game). In 2020, Fresno State also led the conference with 479.3 yards of total offense per game.
The Bulldogs' pass offense was also highly successful in 2020, producing a conference-best 479.3 yards total offense per game, and the league's second-highest points per game total (32.8). Fresno State also led the Mountain West and was fifth in the nation in passing yards per game, with 356.3 per game.
Before joining DeBoer's first staff at Fresno State, Creighton spent the previous six years as tight ends coach at UC Davis. He was also both recruiting coordinator (2014-16) and special teams coordinator (2017-19) for the Aggies.
In 2019, UC Davis tight end Wes Preece earned Phil Steele All-America third-team honors. He was also made some level of All-Big Sky three years in a row, while setting a school record for career receiving touchdowns by a tight end, with 24.
UC Davis posted its most successful season as a Division I team in 2018, winning its first Big Sky championship and its first FCS playoff berth in program history, finishing 10-3.
Prior to UC Davis, Creighton coached at Colorado State University-Pueblo for three seasons (2011-13), as defensive line coach.
CSU-Pueblo went 33-0 in the regular season during his three years working with the defensive line. Creighton mentored three athletes who went on to professional football: Darius Allen (BC Lions, Edmonton Eskimos), Morgan Fox (Los Angeles Rams) and Mike Pennel (Green Bay, New York Jets).
A three-sport star at Niwot High School in Colorado, Creighton walked on at Colorado, playihng fullback and tight end, and earned a scholarship after one semester. He saw action in 47 games during his CU playing career and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Boulder in 2006.
Creighton’s first post-graduation move was to Auburn where he served two years as graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach. He returned to his alma mater in 2009 where he was a defensive graduate assistant for two seasons.
He and his wife, Kathleen, have two children, June and James.
Creighton comes to UW along with new head coach Kalen DeBoer from Fresno State, where he spent the 2020 and 2021 seasons as the Bulldogs' tight ends coach.
Last year, he was part of the offensive staff that helped Fresno State finish the season ranked No. 1 in the Mountain West in total offense (464.8 yards per game), and second in both scoring offense (33.4 points per game) and passing offense (330.1 yards per game). In 2020, Fresno State also led the conference with 479.3 yards of total offense per game.
The Bulldogs' pass offense was also highly successful in 2020, producing a conference-best 479.3 yards total offense per game, and the league's second-highest points per game total (32.8). Fresno State also led the Mountain West and was fifth in the nation in passing yards per game, with 356.3 per game.
Before joining DeBoer's first staff at Fresno State, Creighton spent the previous six years as tight ends coach at UC Davis. He was also both recruiting coordinator (2014-16) and special teams coordinator (2017-19) for the Aggies.
In 2019, UC Davis tight end Wes Preece earned Phil Steele All-America third-team honors. He was also made some level of All-Big Sky three years in a row, while setting a school record for career receiving touchdowns by a tight end, with 24.
UC Davis posted its most successful season as a Division I team in 2018, winning its first Big Sky championship and its first FCS playoff berth in program history, finishing 10-3.
Prior to UC Davis, Creighton coached at Colorado State University-Pueblo for three seasons (2011-13), as defensive line coach.
CSU-Pueblo went 33-0 in the regular season during his three years working with the defensive line. Creighton mentored three athletes who went on to professional football: Darius Allen (BC Lions, Edmonton Eskimos), Morgan Fox (Los Angeles Rams) and Mike Pennel (Green Bay, New York Jets).
A three-sport star at Niwot High School in Colorado, Creighton walked on at Colorado, playihng fullback and tight end, and earned a scholarship after one semester. He saw action in 47 games during his CU playing career and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Boulder in 2006.
Creighton’s first post-graduation move was to Auburn where he served two years as graduate assistant strength and conditioning coach. He returned to his alma mater in 2009 where he was a defensive graduate assistant for two seasons.
He and his wife, Kathleen, have two children, June and James.
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