{"id":429468,"date":"2026-08-11T04:50:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429468\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T04:50:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T04:50:11","slug":"former-fresno-state-qb-derek-carr-joins-staff-at-ucla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/429468\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fresno State QB Derek Carr joins staff at UCLA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr said last December that he definitely wanted to get into coaching<\/a> after his retirement from the NFL, and he has landed a spot on staff at UCLA where he will work with the Bruins\u2019 quarterbacks and assist the Bruins\u2019 staff with game-planning strategy.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are excited to welcome Derek to our program,\u201d UCLA coach Bob Chesney said, in a release from the athletics department. \u201cHe has played the quarterback position at a high level for more than a decade, and his experience, leadership and football knowledge will be an incredible resource for our coaching staff and student-athletes.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Bruins definitely could use some help, as Chesney in his first season attempts to right a program that has gone 3-9 and 5-7 the past two seasons and has not made much of a national impact in decades. UCLA a year ago averaged just 18.2 points per game, ranking 17th of 18 in the Big Ten Conference and 125th of 136 teams in the FBS (football bowl subdivision).<\/p>\n

The connection to UCLA apparently runs through Darrick Yray, who was an assistant director of football operations at Fresno State when Carr was setting school and Mountain West records.<\/p>\n

Yray is now the general manager at UCLA .\u201cI\u2019ve known Darrick for a long time and have great respect for the work he\u2019s done throughout his career,\u201d Carr said, in the UCLA release. \u201cThe opportunity to help Coach Chesney, the staff and the quarterbacks at UCLA was one that really excited me. I\u2019m looking forward to sharing my experiences and helping support the program in any way I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Carr, who retired last May after 11 seasons in the NFL with the Raiders and New Orleans Saints, left no doubt that coaching was a next move in an interview with The Fresno Bee.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely want to coach. I\u2019m definitely going to coach,\u201d Carr said. \u201cRight now, I\u2019m coaching fourth through sixth grade and the scheme that I\u2019m putting in is about 1% of my brain power, and I have the itch to want to share all of that, to put 11 people out there and scheme people up. I have a passion for that, and a passion honestly to raise the next generation, not just for who they are on the football field but who they can be off the field, too, in our communities and those kinds of things.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Fresno State quarterback Derek Carr said last December that he definitely wanted to get into coaching after…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[112,114,113],"class_list":["post-429468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}