Michigan announces offensive coaching staff under Kyle Whittingham

Field Level Media|published: Wed 7th January, 14:03 2026

Michigan football head coach Kyle Whittingham waves at the crowd as he is being introduced on the floor during the first half between Michigan and USC at Crisler Center in Ann Arbor on Friday, Jan. 2, 2026.

Head coach Kyle Whittingham announced the newly hired members of his first offensive coaching staff at Michigan on Wednesday.

In addition to hiring Jason Beck as offensive coordinator last Friday, Whittingham added four more coaches from his previous post at Utah. Jim Harding will coach the offensive line, Micah Simon will be in charge of the wide receivers, Kyle's brother Freddie Whittingham will coach the tight ends and Koy Detmer Jr. will lead the quarterbacks.

Whittingham also announced the hiring of Marques Hagans from Penn State as assistant wide receivers coach and Mike Lynch from Nevada as assistant offensive line coach.

Beck, 45, just completed his first season as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at No. 15 Utah (11-2). The Utes averaged 41.2 points and 482.9 yards of offense per game this season.

He previously served as the OC/QBs coach at New Mexico (2024) and Syracuse (2023) after coaching quarterbacks for Syracuse (2022), Virginia (2016-21) and his alma mater BYU (2013-15).

A former BYU starting wide receiver, the 28-year-old Simon has spent the past four seasons in various college coaching positions, starting as offensive analyst at Syracuse in 2022 before holding receivers coach positions at Northern Colorado (2023), at New Mexico under Beck in 2024 and last season at Utah.

Freddie Whittingham started at Utah in 2012 with four years as director of player personnel before being promoted to tight ends coach and recruiting coordinator, a role he held for the past 10 seasons.

Freddie Whittingham has coached the likes of four-time all-conference selection Brant Kuithe and 2023 first-round draft pick Dalton Kincaid.

Detmer is the son of Koy Detmer and nephew of Ty Detmer, former college and NFL quarterbacks.

He was most recently an analyst and quarterbacks coach at Utah in 2025, having served as offensive analyst at New Mexico in 2024 and as a graduate assistant with Syracuse under Beck prior to that.

Detmer also coached wide receivers (2021) and running backs (2020) at his alma mater Texas A&M Kingsville.

--Field Level Media