Colorado State has hired Washington assistant Caleb Wilson to be its next wide receivers coach. Wilson spent the last two seasons at Washington as the team’s wide receivers quality control assistant coach under Jedd Fisch. In just the fourth year of his coaching career, Wilson has elevated from a graduate assistant to a position coach. It’s a testament to both his technical expertise at the position and the infrastructure Fisch has built at Washington. And the ties between Wilson and Fisch extend to Colorado State.
Colorado State Hires Caleb Wilson
Coaching Tree Connections
This offseason, Colorado State hired Jim Mora as the program’s next head coach. The Rams fired Jay Norvell midway through the 2025 season after a 2-5 start to last season that included a loss at Washington. Before Colorado State, Mora was most recently the head coach at UConn from 2022 to 2025. There, he coached the Huskies to back-to-back nine-win seasons in 2024 and 2025, which is something that the program has never done. But prior to his time at UConn, Mora was the head coach at UCLA from 2012 to 2017.
In Westwood during the 2017 season, Mora and Fisch, who was the Bruins’ offensive coordinator at the time, coached Wilson during his playing career. Wilson played tight end for the Bruins from 2016 to 2018. After his junior season, he declared for the NFL Draft. The former tight end was drafted with the final selection in the seventh round of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Arizona Cardinals and dubbed “Mr. Irrelevant.”
Caleb Wilson’s Coaching Career
Wilson’s brief coaching career began in 2023 at UCLA after his NFL playing days were complete. He then became an offensive line graduate assistant for Purdue for the 2023 season. Ryan Walters, current Husky defensive coordinator, was the Boilermaker head coach that year. When Fisch took over as the head coach at Washington in 2024, he hired Wilson to help coach the receivers as a quality control assistant.
During his time at Washington, Wilson fine-tuned his craft of coaching the position under receivers coach Kevin Cummings. The pair helped formulate a Husky passing offense that ranked in the top six in the Big Ten in each of the last two seasons. During that stretch, Wilson and Cummings helped develop Denzel Boston into a projected first-round selection in this year’s NFL Draft. When Fisch and staff took over at Washington in 2024, Boston had only seven targets on his resume. Two years later, he accumulated back-to-back 800-plus yard seasons with 20 receiving touchdowns under the direction of Wilson and Cummings.
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