Virginia Tech officially hired Tyler Bowen as its offensive coordinator and tight ends coach Monday, leaving one assistant position still to be filled on Brent Pry’s initial Hokies staff. The 32-year-old Bowen comes to Blacksburg from the Jacksonville Jaguars, where he coached tight ends this season. The Jaguars concluded their season Sunday.

Bowen and Pry go back to Penn State, where Bowen began as a graduate assistant in 2014 and returned as tight ends coach and offensive recruiting coordinator in 2018-19 before he added a co-offensive coordinator title in 2020 with Kirk Ciarrocca.

Bowen was an offensive lineman at Maryland from 2007 to 09, playing for then-offensive coordinator James Franklin. Joe Moorhead hired him at Fordham in 2015 as an offensive line coach, with Bowen assuming offensive coordinator duties in 2016 after Moorhead left for Penn State.