John McNulty

Biography

John McNulty was named Michigan State’s quarterbacks coach on Feb. 4, 2026. McNulty most recently was a senior offensive assistant at Rutgers in 2025 and worked with MSU offensive coordinator Nick Sheridan for one season at Alabama as an analyst in 2024. McNulty has over 30 years of coaching experience, including time at Boston College (offensive coordinator in 2022) and Notre Dame (tight ends coach in 2020-21), and also spent 15 years overall in the NFL with stints at Jacksonville (1998-2002), Dallas (2003), Arizona (2009-12), Tampa Bay (2013), Tennessee (2014-15) and San Diego/Los Angeles (2016-17). Before returning to Piscataway in 2025, McNulty had previously coached at Rutgers on two previous occasions. He joined Greg Schiano’s staff in 2004 as the wide receivers coach, then was promoted to co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2006, and took over as offensive coordinator for two seasons (2007-08) while remaining in his role as QB coach. After his time in the NFL, McNulty came back to the college ranks at RU as the Scarlet Knights’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2018-19. McNulty piloted one of the most prolific offenses in Rutgers history in 2007, with the Scarlet Knights becoming the first FBS program to have a 3,000-yard passer (Mike Teel), 2,000-yard rusher (Ray Rice) and a pair of 1,000-yard receivers (Kenny Britt and Tiquan Underwood) in the same season. The Scarlet Knights set school records for scoring (426), first downs (294) and tot