Jeff Stoutland, Pioneer of Eagles’ ‘Tush Push,’ Steps Down After Legendary Career

Philadelphia Eagles offensive line coach Jeff Stoutland is calling it quits.

Stoutland announced his resignation on social media on Feb. 4. After spending most of his career in the college game, Stoutland spent more than a decade as the Eagles’ O-line coach and run game coordinator, staying through three regimes and winning two Super Bowls. Stoutland will be fondly remembered by fans as a pioneer of the “Brotherly Shove,” a.k.a. the “tush push”; Stoutland helped refine the technique of the play, turning it into one of the most effective and well-known plays in football.

“Philadelphia, I’ve decided my time coaching with the Eagles has come to an end,” Stoutland wrote on X. “When I arrived here in 2013, I did not know what I was signing up for. I quickly learned what this city demands. But more importantly, what it gives back. The past 13 years have been the great privilege of my coaching career. I didn’t just work here, I became one of you. Stout out.”

Stoutland played inside linebacker at Southern Connecticut State University, and began his coaching career there as well as linebackers coach. He then served as a graduate assistant at Syracuse, before returning to Southern Connecticut as their offensive coordinator. He then became offensive line coach at Cornell; from there, he served in the same position at Syracuse, Michigan State, Miami (Florida)—where he also served as interim head coach in 2010, and Alabama—where he coached the Crimson Tide offensive line to back-to-back BCS National Championships.

Stoutland joined the Eagles staff as O-line coach in 2013 under then-head coach Chip Kelly. He was retained by Doug Pederson when he took the job in 2016; he was promoted to run game coordinator, in addition to coaching the o-line, in 2018. He retained both positions when Nick Sirianni took the job in 2021.

In addition to the two Super Bowls he won with the Eagles—Super Bowl LII in 2018 and Super Bowl LIX in 2025—Stoutland has developed some of the top talents along the offensive line: longtime left tackle Jason Peters, fan favorite center Jason Kelce, and franchise legend right tackle Lane Johnson, who has spent his entire career under Stoutland. He also turned current left tackle Jordan Mailata from a raw prospect, a rugby player with no American football experience, into one of the league’s best blindside blockers.

Under Stoutland‘s tutelage, seven offensive linemen have earned a combined 27 Pro Bowl selections; five of those players earned a combined 15 All-Pro nominations. The Eagles led the league in rushing twice behind his squad of road graders: 2013 and 2024. The 2024 campaign was particularly notable because Stoutland was the man behind Saquon Barkley’s 2,000-yard rushing season, as well as revitalizing the career of guard Mekhi Becton, who had struggled in his early career with the New York Jets.

But it was his connection to rugby that endears him the most to Eagles fans. While Philly’s famous “Brotherly Shove” quarterback sneak play, better know as the “tush push,” has its origins at Kansas State under HC Bill Snyder in the 2000s; and Sirianni ran a version of it once in his time as offensive coordinator of the Indianapolis Colts; it was Stoutland who helped perfect the technique into a play that, at one time, worked 85.5 percent of the time.

It was Stoutland who brought in Scottish rugby union coach Richie Gray to help refine the tush push in 2023.

“[Gray] came in, and he’s talking to Jeff Stoutland, and ‘Stout’ was like, ‘what would you do to try and stop this?'” Kelce explained in a 2023 episode of his podcast, New Heights. “And the guy says, ‘Coach, there ain’t nothing you can do to stop it. It’s organized mass, and there’s nothing they can do as long as you’re organized. There’s too much people going in the same direction at the same time.'”

In a 2023 interview with Scottish newspaper The Herald, Gray recounted how Stoutland picked his brain, going over the play for an entire morning to go over what the team should do differently and how he would attack it.

“They had obviously already used it in match situations before that, but good coaches will always try to find another one percent,” he said. “It might look incredibly simple, just this big surge, but there is actually a huge amount of technique to it. There have been a few things come out of it.”