{"id":2420,"section":"sports","section_label":"Sports","url":"https://www.brokenews.co/sports/2420","headline":"NC State hires Philip Rivers as football coach","dek":"The Wolfpack turned to their former quarterback, who played 51 games for the school before an 18-season NFL career.","body":"North Carolina State announced Friday that Philip Rivers will be its new head football coach, bringing the Pro Bowl quarterback back to the program where he began.\n\nRivers played for the Wolfpack from 2000 through 2003 before heading to the NFL, where he spent 18 seasons. He started three games last year for the Indianapolis Colts, apparently closing out a long playing career before jumping straight into coaching.\n\n\"I am humbled and honored to be the next head football coach at NC State University,\" Rivers said. \"In many ways, I feel like I'm coming home. This is where it all began for me as an 18-year-old kid from Alabama, and now to return to this great place as head coach is beyond words.\"\n\nHe added that he knows the job will take work, but said he and the program are ready for it, pointing back to the 51 games he played for the Wolfpack as proof of what he's willing to put in. The move makes Rivers the latest former NFL standout to try his hand running a college program, a path with a mixed track record for players who trade helmets for headsets.","published_at":"2026-11-14T00:49:48.447166+00:00","source_count":3,"written_from":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"N.C. State hires ex-NFL quarterback Philip Rivers as football coach","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/n-c-state-hires-ex-182012706.html"},{"outlet":"Pro Football Talk","publisher":"NBC Sports","title":"Philip Rivers named NC State head coach","url":"https://www.nbcsports.com/nfl/profootballtalk/rumor-mill/news/philip-rivers-named-nc-state-head-coach"},{"outlet":"CBS Sports","publisher":"CBS Sports","title":"NC State set to hire Philip Rivers: How other ex-NFL stars have fared as college football head coaches?","url":"https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/ex-nfl-stars-college-football-head-coaches/"}],"more_coverage":[{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NC State reaches deal for former QB Philip Rivers to become coach","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nc-state-reaches-deal-former-181505128.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Philip Rivers has never coached in college. His message to NC State: ‘We’re not scared of hard’","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/philip-rivers-never-coached-college-183055067.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Pros & cons of NC State hiring Philip Rivers as head coach","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/pros-cons-nc-state-hiring-191415520.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Nick Saban gives Philip Rivers practical advice after NC State hiring","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nick-saban-gives-philip-rivers-195919018.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Former NC State QB Philip Rivers named Wolfpack's next head football coach","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/former-nc-state-qb-philip-175411281.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Philip Rivers contract, salary with NC State football","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/philip-rivers-contract-salary-nc-213129751.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"NC State names ACC’s all-time passing leader Philip Rivers head coach on five-year deal","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/nc-state-names-acc-time-214638484.html"},{"outlet":"Yahoo Sports","publisher":"Yahoo Sports","title":"Philip Rivers’ introductory press conference set for Monday","url":"https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/philip-rivers-introductory-press-conference-233403946.html"}],"image":{"url":"https://s.yimg.com/lo/mysterio/api/488fe58c4e1f0a1d119ccb546fdde32b68bd3cd9e9a27b7122c9f0f17870a887/lightyear_networkapi/resizefill_w900_h601%3Bquality_80%3Bformat_webp/https%3A%2F%2Fmedia.zenfs.com%2Fen%2Funited_press_international_articles_356%2F262d69ae320188d2dd9407c1d4d8482d.jpg","credit":"Yahoo Sports","width":900},"embed":null,"license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Analysis data is licensed CC BY 4.0. Credit brokenews and link to the story page you took it from. Source headlines, story titles taken from a source headline, and quoted passages remain the property of their publishers and are quoted for comparison, not licensed onward.","terms":"https://www.brokenews.co/about#reuse"}