Official: LSU hires Jake Peetz as OC, Mangas as PGC

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Jake Peetz
- 10 years of #NFL experience
- Running Backs/Quarterbacks Coach at Carolina
- Offensive Assistant for Jacksonville, Washington and Oakland
- Analyst in College Football
- Played defensive back at Nebraska

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Carolina Panthers quarterbacks coach Jake Peetz has been hired as LSU's next offensive coordinator, the university announced Wednesday.

LSU and Peetz came to an agreement quickly, just days after the NFL regular season ended on Sunday. Peetz interviewed with LSU on Tuesday, along with offensive assistant DJ Mangas, a candidate for the passing game coordinator position.

The 37-year-old Peetz is a Nebraska native, a former long snapper and cornerback for the Cornhuskers, who has spent seven seasons as an assistant in the NFL, four in the NCAA, most of which were spent as a quarterbacks coach.

Peetz also spent time successfully building game plans behind the scenes at the college level, twice as an offensive analyst at Alabama in 2013 and 2018.

He began his NFL career as a scout for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2008, under then-head coach Jack Del Rio — a connection to LSU coach Ed Orgeron, whose close friend and former Northwestern State teammate, Bobby Hebert, played with Del Rio with the New Orleans Saints from 1985-86.

But it's Peetz's ties to former LSU passing game coordinator Joe Brady that made him a central target.

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Mangas will return to Baton Rouge as an on-field coach as the program's Passing Game Coordinator, sources confirmed with the Geaux247 staff. Mangas will take over the same role Brady - his longtime friend and coaching partner - occupied in Baton Rouge.

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