Jason Michael Beck (born 1980) is an American football coach and former player who is current serving as the
offensive coordinator
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(OC) for
Syracuse
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Bronco Mendenhall
Marc Bronco Clay Mendenhall (born February 21, 1966) is an American football coach who most recently coached at The University of Virginia. He stepped down after the 2021 season. Mendenhall joined Virginia in 2015 after spending the previous elev ...
, and as the quarterbacks coach at Syracuse under head coach Dino Babers.
Santa Clarita, California
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, where he led the Canyon Cougars to an 11-1 season and Western State Conference title as a sophomore. He was a unanimous first-team All-Conference pick, throwing for 2,052 yards while completing 77.5% of his passes. He also added 430 rushing yards. He was also named to the
Junior college
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Academic All-American list.
After transferring to BYU, Beck served as the backup to All-American quarterback John Beck (no relation) from 2004-2006. In his lone start in a 38-0 victory over Utah State his senior season, Beck totaled 553 passing yards and 28 rushing yards, including 305 yards on 20-of-28 passing.
Beck earned bachelor's and master's degrees in communications from BYU in 2006 and 2011.
Coaching career
Beck began as offensive intern at BYU in 2007 and then worked in the same position with LSU Tigers. He worked under former BYU head coach, Gary Crowton who was the offensive coordinator on Les Miles's
2008
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team.
In 2009, he was hired head coach Ron McBride as quarterbacks coach at Weber State in
Ogden, Utah
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. At Weber State, he coached quarterback
Cameron Higgins
Cameron James Kalana Higgins (born March 28, 1988) is a former American football quarterback. He played college football at Weber State.Simon Fraser in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. At SFU, he turned around offense from being ranked last in Great Northwest Athletic Conference (in 2011) to first place in total offense, passing offense and scoring offense in 2012.
In 2013, he returned to his alma mater BYU where he served as quarterbacks coach until his resignation December 9, 2015. He was hired by offensive coordinator
Robert Anae
Robert Anae (born December 21, 1958) is an American football coach and former player who is current serving as the offensive coordinator (OC) for NC State since December 2022. Prior to NC State, he was the OC at the University of Virginia and Bri ...
.
In 2015, Beck accepted the quarterbacks coach position at the University of Virginia, with Robert Anae as the offensive coordinator, going from BYU with
Bronco Mendenhall
Marc Bronco Clay Mendenhall (born February 21, 1966) is an American football coach who most recently coached at The University of Virginia. He stepped down after the 2021 season. Mendenhall joined Virginia in 2015 after spending the previous elev ...
who was appointed the university's new head football coach. Beck left this position after Mendenhall announced his retirement from the head coaching job.
Beck was hired as Syracuse's quarterbacks coach on December 26, 2021. After Anae left for the same position at NC State in December 2022, Beck was promoted to offensive coordinator by Head Coach Dino Babers.
Beck has coached three quarterbacks who have gone on to have NFL careers:
Taysom Hill
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,
Kurt Benkert
Kurt Benkert (born July 17, 1995) is an American football quarterback who is a free agent. He played college football at East Carolina and Virginia. He originally signed with the Atlanta Falcons as an undrafted free agent in 2018, and was also ...
, and
Bryce Perkins
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.
Personal life
Beck married Jaime Rendich, an All-American BYU soccer standout, in December 2005. The couple has a daughter and twin sons.