Jeremy Larkin - Football Coach - University of Massachusetts Athletics

Jeremy Larkin

Title:
Running Backs

Alma Mater: Northwestern '22, '20
Season at Massachusetts: First

Jeremy Larkin joins the Massachusetts football staff as the running backs coach in January 2025 after spending two seasons at Youngstown State.

While at Youngstown, Larkin helped the Penguins rank fourth in the Missouri Valley Football Conference in total rushing offense two years in a row. Also, in his two seasons, he saw three players earn four MVFC honors, including a 1,000-yard rusher, who was selected a MVFC Honorable Mention (2024), a Second Team MVFC (2023) and a MVFC Newcomer Team (2023). He had two top 10 MVFC running backs rush for 650-plus yards with nine touchdowns each in the 2023 season. Larkin also helped the Penguins advance to the 2023 FCS playoffs for the first time in seven years.

Additionally, in May of 2024, Larkin spent time with the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League as an NFL Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellow. There, he observed and worked with NFL full-time running back and wide receiver coaches, while assisting with drill work and skill development.

Prior to his time at YSU, Larkin was a defensive back analyst at Notre Dame under head coach Marcus Freeman during the 2022 campaign. The Fighting Irish posted a 9-4 record and capped off the year with a victory over South Carolina in the Gator Bowl.

During the 2020 and 2021 seasons, he was a defensive graduate assistant at Northwestern. In 2020, the Wildcats reached the Big Ten title game, finishing with a 7-2 overall record. The program ended the season with a win over Auburn in the Citrus Bowl.

As an undergraduate at Northwestern, Larkin was a running back for the program, competing in 16 games from 2016-18, before retiring from the sport midway through the 2018 season. In his final two seasons, he transitioned into a student-assistant coaching role.

Larkin, a native of Cincinnati, Ohio, earned his bachelor’s in education and social policy from Northwestern in 2020 and his master’s in sports administration in 2022.