Joe Craddock

Biography

Joe Craddock enters his first season as the team’s quarterbacks coach. Arriving with nine years of experience as an FBS offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach, Craddock most recently held those same two positions at Tulane (2024-25) and Troy (2022-23). The 14-year collegiate coaching veteran coached the tight ends for two years at UAB (2020-21) after two prior stints as offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach at Arkansas (2018-19) and SMU (2015-17). “Coach Craddock brings a great depth of knowledge and experience to our staff here at Florida,” Sumrall said. “Coach Craddock will be hands-on with our quarterbacks and will be an asset for Coach Faulkner on the offensive staff. He has proven to be a great developer of talent and has a track record of proven results throughout his career.” Beginning his career at Clemson as a player development coach with wide receivers (2012) and later as an offensive graduate assistant with quarterbacks (2013-14), Craddock sharpened his skills under two-time National Champion head coach Dabo Swinney. In his last two seasons at Clemson, Craddock worked with Deshaun Watson and Tahj Boyd, both NFL draft picks. Dating back to his first role at Clemson, Craddock has developed 22 NFL Draft picks including five first-round selections, headlined by star wide receivers Treylon Burks (2022), Mike Williams (2017), Sammy Watkins (2014) and DeAndre Hopkins (2013), in addition to three-time Pro Bowl quarterback Deshaun Watson (2017). In all, former Cra