Steve Logan, the former longtime East Carolina coach who last worked in the NFL as the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ running backs coach in 2011 and has been doing sportstalk radio for an ESPN affiliate in North Carolina, will join new San Francisco 49ers coach Jim Tomsula’s staff as his quarterbacks coach, Logan told WRAL on Wednesday.
Logan was Tomsula’s offensive coordinator with NFL Europe’s Rhein Fire in 2006.
“Jim Tomsula is the one guy who I would open this can of worms back up for,” Logan told the station.
What Logan’s specific job description means for Geep Chryst, who was retained after serving as Jim Harbaugh’s QBs coach since 2011, is not known. Though with the Niners missing on at least three offensive coordinator candidates – Lane Kiffin, Rob Chudzinski and Bob Bicknell – Chryst might now be their in-house front runner, though he has not been an NFL offensive coordinator since 2000, with the San Diego Chargers.
Logan, meanwhile, was also a part of the Berlin Thunder’s staff in 2004 and 2005 with Tomsula but now is charged on a position coach level with getting Colin Kaepernick back on track.
“The San Francisco 49ers’ roster is a roster that is Super Bowl competitive,” Logan said. “[Kaepernick] is my kind of guy – mobile, accurate and smart.”
Kaepernick was also sacked a league-high 52 times last season and his Total QBR fell from 68.6 (sixth in the NFL in 2013) to 55.9 (17th last season).
In Logan’s run, three years coaching Tampa Bay’s running backs, the Buccaneers’ rushing attack was ranked 23rd, eighth and 30th.
Before that, Logan was Boston College’s offensive coordinator in 2008 and 2007, working with Matt Ryan.
Logan was 69-58 at East Carolina from 1992 through 2002.