Gunter Brewer, the wide receivers coach and passing game coordinator for the University of Maryland football program, enters his second season with the Terps entering 2023.
Brewer has coached some of the best wide receivers to play the game over the last 25 years, including a pair of Biletnikoff Award winners in Randy Moss and Justin Blackmon, and Biletnikoff finalist Dez Bryant.Â
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A veteran with over 30 years of coaching experience in both the collegiate and professional ranks, Brewer most recently served as the wide receivers coach at Louisville for the past three seasons.Â
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At Louisville, Brewer guided Tutu Atwell to All-American and First Team All-ACC plaudits in 2019. Atwell set Louisville program records for receiving yards in a season, recording 1,276 yards, while tying the school mark with 12 touchdowns. He was the first Cardinal wide receiver to record over 1,000 yards in a season since 2007.
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Before his time at Louisville, Brewer was the wide receivers coach for the Philadelphia Eagles in 2018, working with a unit that featured veteran wide receivers Alshon Jeffrey and Nelson Agholor. Under Brewer’s direction, Jeffrey recorded his highest receiving yardage (843) and reception totals (65) in a single season since 2014. Agholor recorded career highs in receptions (64) and yards after the catch (350). In 2018, Philadelphoa registered the seventh-ranked passing offense and the eight-rated team passer rating in the NFL.
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Brewer was the Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers Coach at North Carolina from 2012-17, where he coached four of the top five wide receivers in career receptions at UNC. He helped UNC set the school record for passing yards five times during his stint as the Tar Heels threw for more than 3,500 yards each season from 2012-16.The Tar Heels led the NCAA in yards per play (7.3) and ranked ninth in scoring offense (school-record 40.7 points per game) en route to the program’s first-ever appearance in the ACC Championship Game during the 2015 season.
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In 2015, Mack Hollins had an NCAA-leading 24.8 receiving average, and went on to set the school career record with 20.6 yards per reception. Hollins also finished third in Tar Heels history with 20 receiving touchdowns, posting a career-high eight receiving touchdowns in back-to-back seasons from 2014-15.
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Prior to his return to Chapel Hill, Brewer served one season as the associate head coach/passing game coordinator at Ole Miss (2011) and spent six seasons in various capacities at Oklahoma State (co-offensive coordinator/wide receivers coach, 2009-10; co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach, 2008; wide receivers coach, 2005-07).
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With the Cowboys, Brewer’s term in Stillwater included five bowl appearances and the program’s first Big 12 South Championship in 2010. Brewer recruited and served as the position coach for Blackmon, a unanimous First-Team All-American who won the Biletnikoff Award presented to the nation’s top receiver. Blackmon finished the 2010 season as the national leader in receiving yards per game and was second in receptions per game. His 1,782 receiving yards were the most ever for a sophomore in NCAA history, and he set another NCAA record with 12 consecutive games with at least 100 yards receiving and a touchdown.
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Brewer’s work with the Cowboy wide receivers was key in OSU finishing the 2010 season ranked second in the nation in passing offense and third in the nation in both total offense and scoring offense.
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With Brewer as co-offensive coordinator, the Cowboys offense produced a pair of first-team All-Americans in Bryant and running back Kendall Hunter, to go with first-round NFL Draft picks in lineman Russell Okung and tight end Brandon Pettigrew.
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In 2008, Brewer’s offensive unit finished top-10 nationally in rushing, total offense, scoring and pass efficiency. He was also the position coach for quarterback Zac Robinson, who was a finalist for the Manning Award and ranked fifth nationally in pass efficiency and 18th in total offense.
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Brewer coached Biletnikoff semifinalist Adarius Bowman to consecutive 1,000-yard receiving seasons in 2006 and 2007, while D’Juan Woods was a 2005 all-Big 12 pick and ended his career as OSU’s third all-time leading receiver in both receptions and yards.
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Brewer was the wide receivers coach and associate offensive coordinator at Marshall from 1996-99. Brewer coached Moss – the third Biletnikoff Award finalist -- to stardom while helping the Thundering Herd to a 50-4 record over that time, including a perfect 13-0 mark and No. 10 final national ranking in 1999.
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As a player, Brewer was a two-year letter-winner as a wide receiver at Wake Forest, where he earned his degree in science and health sports in 1987. In 1989, he was awarded a master’s in education with a specialization in exercise physiology from Ole Miss.
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Brewer and his wife, Rhonda, have a son, Keaton, and a daughter, Lauren.
Updated May 30, 2023
- Full Name: Gunter Scott Brewer
- Hometown: Columbus, Mississippi
- Education: Wake Forest, 1987 (science and health sports), Ole Miss, 1989 (master’s in education)
- Wife: Rhonda
- Children: Keaton, Lauren
- 1983-86: Wake Forest, wide receiver
- 1986-87: Wake Forest, Strength and Conditioning Coach
- 1988-89: Ole Miss, Graduate Assistant
- 1989: Anges Bleus, Offensive Coordinator
- 1990: Ole Miss, Graduate Assistant
- 1990-95: East Tennessee State, Wide Receivers
- 1995: Northeast Mississippi CC, Head Coach
- 1996-99: Marshall, Wide Receivers/Co-Offensive Coordinator
- 2000-04:Â North Carolina, Wide Receivers
- 2005-07: Oklahoma State, Wide Receivers
- 2008: Oklahoma State, Co-Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks
- 2009-10: Oklahoma State, Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers
- 2011: Ole Miss, Associate Head Coach/Passing Game Coordinator/Wide Receivers
- 2012-17: North Carolina, Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers
- 2018: Philadelphia Eagles, Wide Receivers
- 2019-21: Louisville, Wide Receivers
- 2022-present: Maryland, Wide Receivers/Passing Game Coordinator