NFL alum Brock Huard comes from a close-knit football family.
His father Mike was a high school coach who built an outstanding program in Puyallup, Washington which is 10 miles southeast of Tacoma. His three sons—Brock, Damon and Luke—all played quarterback for him there.
It was not surprising, then, when Brock earlier this month announced that he was leaving his lucrative Fox college broadcasting position to help coach his own quarterback son Titus’ high school team in the suburbs of Denver. Brock is not allowed by team policy to coach the quarterbacks, so he now is the new tight ends assistant at Valor Christian High School.
“I had coached Titus’ youth teams,” says the 48-year-old Brock, “but last year when he started high school, it was debilitating. I was on the road trying to watch his games from weekend production meetings for Fox or going back to the hotel room trying to watch him on-line. I knew this was coming to a point where I could no longer miss his games. Titus told me he really missed me and that helped make it easier for me to step away from announcing for now.”
Huard had been the No. 2 color analyst for college games on Fox the last five seasons. He has discontinued that assignment but will continue to co-host his weekday morning radio show.
Brock Huard was a third-round pick of the Seahawks in the 1999 Draft after a productive career at the University of Washington. He was an Academic All-America selection in college and graduated as a psychology major. He played six NFL seasons (1999-2004) with both the Seahawks and Colts.
Huard, whose older brother Damon also is an NFL quarterback alum (Dolphins, Patriots, Chiefs; 1997-2008), does not believe his broadcasting career is necessarily behind him.
“I think there might be some opportunities on the NFL side of things,” the Seattle native says, “but in the college football realm, my high school coaching will close the door for at least the next three seasons. All the years of learning and experiencing and being around coaches like the Colts’ Tony Dungy, I just could not pass up the opportunity to hopefully impact that into this community and to Titus and his teammates. I’m really looking forward to it.”
We at NFL Alumni are looking forward to another one of our members giving back to our great sport through high school coaching. We wish Brock Huard, his son Titus and their entire family continued success.
