Ryan Nehlen

Biography

Ryan Nehlen is the assistant wide receivers coach on the Mountaineer Football coaching staff. He re-joined the Mountaineer football coaching staff in February 2024 as a senior offensive analyst and special assistant to the head coach after serving for two years as the tight ends coach at McNeese State in Lake Charles, Louisiana. In his role at WVU, Nehlen organizes, implements and maintains all aspects of game analysis for the offensive coaching staff and manages the walk-on program. He charts/tracks statistics during practice and competition, analyzes game film and formulates game plans to assist the offensive coaching staff with game preparation. He organizes the practice schedule, manages the offensive graduate assistants and student coaches and supports the head coach with recruiting communication. He assists the head coach and staff with on-campus recruiting operations and oversees the administration of the offensive plan for the high school coaches clinic. No stranger to WVU, Nehlen served as an offensive analyst for the football program from 2018 until July 2022. The Mountaineers played in bowl games in three of the four years that he worked on the staff. Nehlen served as a graduate assistant coach for two years at Michigan. He worked with the offensive staff during the 2016 season and the defensive staff during the 2017 season. The Wolverines won 10 games during the 2016 season. Prior to arriving in Ann Arbor, he had a short stint as an offensive graduate assistant at