Eric Kiesau enters his third season with the Gators after being hired in the role of Quality Control – Offense prior to the 2023 season.
Kiesau served as offensive coordinator at Auburn in 2022 after spending one season as wide receivers coach in 2021. In 2022, Auburn’s offense ranked third in the SEC in rushing yards gained (2,834), 33rd nationally in net rushing (2,470) and top-50 in rushing touchdowns (25).
Prior to joining the Auburn football program, Kiesau spent four seasons at Boise State. He came to Auburn as a senior offensive analyst and was promoted to Auburn’s wide receivers coach in September of 2021.
The 2020 campaign at Boise State marked his first as the program’s sole offensive coordinator after serving as co-offensive coordinator in 2019. Kiesau worked with the Bronco quarterbacks in 2020 after overseeing the wide receiver corps from 2017-19. In Kiesau’s first season helping oversee the team’s offensive effort, the Broncos had eight members of the offensive earn All-Mountain West honors.
Under his tutelage, Cedrick Wilson went on to break Boise State’s single-season receiving record, picking up 1,511 yards for second-most in the country. He would go on to selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the 2017 NFL Draft. Kiesau also worked with the wider receiver John Hightower, who was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2020 draft.
Prior to joining Boise State, Kiesau spent the 2016 season as offensive coordinator at Fresno State, and served as the Bulldogs’ interim head coach over the final four games of the season. Kiesau served as an analyst for Alabama during a 2015 season that culminated in the Crimson Tide winning the National Championship.
Kiesau coached wide receivers at Kansas (2014), California (2002-05; 2011), Colorado (2006-08) and Utah State (2001). He also served as the interim offensive coordinator for Kansas over the final five games of the 2014 season, served as offensive coordinator for both Washington (2012-13) and the Buffaloes (2009-10) and was California’s passing game coordinator in 2011. He began his career as an assistant coach in 2000, working with Utah State’s running backs. In his debut as a wide receivers coach, he mentored the nation leader in receptions for the Aggies, Kevin Curtis, who had 100 catches.
Between his two stints at California, Kiesau worked with future NFL AllPro DeSean Jackson and future NFL Rookie of the Year Keenan Allen. He also mentored Marvin Jones, a fifth-round selection in the 2012 NFL Draft and Lavelle Hawkins, a fourth-round selection (2008).
As Washington’s offensive coordinator, the Washington offense ranked amongst the nation’s elite in both total offense (13th; 499.3 yards per game) and scoring offense (18th; 37.9 points per game). Kiesau also helped produce John Mackey Award winner, Austin Saferian-Jenkins and All-American running back, Bishop Sankey.
Originally from Pasadena, Calif., Kiesau graduated from Glendale High School and went on to earn a bachelor’s degree in communications from Portland State, where he started at quarterback. He also garnered All-America accolades while playing at Glendale Community College.
Kiesau has two children, son Blake and daughter Tayler.
