Jon Richt (born March 11, 1990) is an

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coach and former player. He was the

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for the University of Miami Hurricanes football team from 2016 to 2018, where he assisted his father, Miami head coach

Mark Richt Mark Allan Richt (born February 18, 1960) is an American former college football coach, player, and current television analyst. He was the head football coach at the University of Georgia for 15 years and at the University of Miami, his alma mate ...

Playing career

Jon Richt was a high school quarterback at

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, near

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, where his father coached at the

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. He began his college career at

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, where he spent a

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year, then transferred to

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(now University). At Mars Hill, Richt started every game as a senior, and set program records in completions, attempts, yards, and touchdown passes.

Coaching career

Georgia

Richt spent the 2014 season serving on his father

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coaching staff as a quality control assistant. During the 2014 campaign, Georgia posted a 10-3 overall record and went 6-2 in

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play, placing second in the East Division. The 2014 season was a record-breaking year for the Bulldogs’ offensive unit as Georgia posted 537 points and averaged 41.3 points per game - both of which were school records. Georgia’s 41.3 points per game ranked eighth in the NCAA.

Buffalo Bills

In 2015, Richt joined the

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as an entry-level assistant on new head coach

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's first staff. During his lone season in Buffalo, the Bills posted an 8-8 record.

Miami

At the end of the 2015 season, Mark Richt was fired, or stepped down, as head football coach of the University of Georgia and later accepted the head football coaching job at the

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. On January 2, 2016, Jon Richt joined his father's staff as quarterbacks coach, a position he held for his father's entire three-year tenure. Jon Richt was fired along with the entire Miami offensive coaching staff soon after Manny Diaz took over as head coach.

Youth coaching

Since 2019, Jon Richt has owned and has been a quarterback coach at Catalyst Quarterback Development in

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, in

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. He was offensive coordinator and strength and conditioning coach, then in 2025 he was made head coach, at his high school alma mater,

. While he was offensive coordinator, Prince Avenue won two state championships.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Richt, Jon 1990 births Living people Georgia Bulldogs football coaches Miami Hurricanes football coaches Buffalo Bills coaches Sports coaches from Georgia (U.S. state)