{"id":142832,"date":"2026-02-04T03:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142832\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T03:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T03:05:09","slug":"indiana-football-co-oc-qb-coach-chandler-whitmer-departs-for-tampa-bay-buccaneers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142832\/","title":{"rendered":"Indiana football co-OC, QB coach Chandler Whitmer departs for Tampa Bay Buccaneers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti will have his third\u00a0quarterbacks\u00a0coach in\u00a0as many\u00a0seasons at the helm of Indiana football.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Chandler Whitmer, who served as the Hoosiers\u2019 co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2025,\u00a0accepted the quarterbacks coach role with the NFL\u2019s Tampa Bay Buccaneers\u00a0on Tuesday, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2018807389538202098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">NFL Network\u2019s Tom Pelissero<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 34-year-old Whitmer previously interviewed for the position late last month\u00a0and had\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/TomPelissero\/status\/2018807389538202098\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">multiple offers elsewhere<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idsnews.com\/article\/2024\/12\/indiana-football-coach-whitmer-cignetti-iu-bloomington\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first arrived in Bloomington in December 2024<\/a>\u00a0after four seasons as an NFL assistant coach \u2014 three with the Los Angeles Chargers and one with the Atlanta Falcons.\u00a0He previously made stops at Yale University, Ohio State and Clemson University as a graduate assistant.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u00a0did a \u201cgreat job\u201d\u00a0in developing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.idsnews.com\/article\/2025\/12\/indiana-football-fernando-mendozas-journey-to-the-heisman-trophy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback Fernando Mendoza<\/a>\u00a0throughout the\u00a0Hoosiers\u2019\u00a016-0 season, Cignetti\u00a0said Nov. 24.\u00a0Mendoza \u2014 the presumed No. 1 overall pick in the upcoming NFL draft \u2014 threw\u00a041 touchdowns and just six interceptions\u00a0en\u00a0route to the program\u2019s first national championship.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Whitmer\u2019s tutelage\u00a0wasn\u2019t\u00a0limited to just on-field coaching, however.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think I can put into words how much Coach\u00a0Whitmer\u00a0has\u00a0meant to me, not only on the physical standpoint but also the mental standpoint in the game,\u201d Mendoza said\u00a0Nov. 19.\u00a0\u201cHe\u2019s\u00a0been such a blessing and honestly one of the huge reasons that\u00a0I\u2019ve\u00a0been having the season\u00a0we\u2019ve\u00a0had so far.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, both Mendoza and Whitmer are headed to the NFL.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Indiana football head coach Curt Cignetti will have his third\u00a0quarterbacks\u00a0coach in\u00a0as many\u00a0seasons at the helm of Indiana football.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":142833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-142832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}