Kirk Bryant - Football Coach - Texas Tech Red Raiders

Kirk Bryant

Title:
Senior Offensive Analyst/Assistant Quarterbacks Coach

Kirk Bryant enters his third season as a senior offensive analyst on the Texas Tech football staff where he assists offensive coordinator Zach Kittley with the Red Raider quarterbacks as well as opponent scouting.

Bryant arrived in Lubbock following two seasons as the inside receivers coach and recruiting coach at Austin Peay. Bryant was hired by the Governors prior to their 2021 spring season where Austin Peay finished 4-2 in Ohio Valley Conference (OVC) play, which included a pair of ranks wins over No. 7 Jacksonville State and No. 13 Murray State. Austin Peay was a combined 8-4 in conference games during Bryant's two seasons on staff.

Prior to his time with the Governors, Bryant spent four seasons at Baylor where he worked alongside head coach Joey McGuire. Bryant was an offensive graduate assistant with the running backs and wide receiver groups for the 2017-18 seasons before moving to a quality control role with the Bears' quarterbacks for the 2019-20 campaigns.

His position at Baylor followed a season as the wide receivers coach and operations director at East Texas Baptist where he coached a pair of All-American Southwest Conference selections in Chase Sojka (first team) and Richard Johnson (second team). The duo combined for almost 2,000 receiving yards that season with Sojka leading the team with 83 receptions for 1,074 yards, while Johnson posted 911 yards through the air on 52 catches.

East Texas Baptist featured the top-ranked scoring offense in Division III that season, averaging an impressive 49.9 points per game. Bryant worked that season under Scotty Walden, who would later bring both Josh Cochran and Bryant with him as part of his initial staff at Austin Peay.

Bryant began his coaching career as the wide receivers coach for his alma mater, Mississippi College, in 2015. Bryant, a native of Bullard, Texas, previously played three seasons at Mississippi College (2011-14), leading the Choctaws in receiving yards as a senior. He was the ASC All-Academic team in 2013 and a Gulf South Conference Academic Honor Roll recipient in 2015.

Bryant earned his bachelor's degree in accounting from Mississippi College in 2015 and then added a master's in sports management from Baylor in 2019. He is the son of Keith Bryant, who is currently the superintendent of Lubbock Cooper ISD.