Football
- Title:
- Offensive Line
- Email:
- droushar@tulane.edu
- Phone:
- 314-2425
Dan Roushar was named as the Tulane offensive line coach in February of 2023 and begins his second year in the role with the program for the 2024 campaign.
In 2023, Tulane averaged 370.1 yards per game on offense including 155.1 on the ground. His offensive line led the way for Makhi Hughes to earn First Team All-AAC honors plus AAC Rookie of the Year distinction and Michael Pratt to pick the league’s Offensive Player of the Year Award plus also be named First Team All-AAC. Roushar saw two of his coached offensive linemen earn All-AAC honors in center Sincere Haynesworth (First Team) and offensive tackle Rashad Green (Third Team).
A 38-year coaching veteran, including two stints as an offensive coordinator, Roushar coached for the previous 10 seasons with the New Orleans Saints. He spent his final two seasons as the team's run game coordinator/tight ends.
In addition to overseeing the team's running game, Roushar tutored the team's tight ends, one of the offense's most youthful position groups, after overseeing one of the NFL's most productive offensive lines from 2016-20. He previously served as tight ends coach in 2015 and coached the running backs from 2013-14.
Roushar came to New Orleans following a six-year stint at Michigan State, the final two as offensive coordinator/tight ends coach. Prior to his promotion to coordinator, Roushar served four seasons as the Spartans' offensive line coach.
Prior to arriving in East Lansing, Roushar served two seasons as offensive line coach at Cincinnati from 2005-06.
A two-year letterman as a quarterback at Northern Illinois, he began his coaching career as a student assistant at his alma mater in 1984 and also spent time as an assistant at Butler (offensive coordinator-1986-92), the University of Rhode Island (1993), Ball State (offensive coordinator-1994) and the University of Illinois (1995-96).
Roushar then spent six years as offensive line coach/offensive coordinator at Northern Illinois before returning to Champaign for a two-year stint in 2003, serving as offensive coordinator in his final season with the Illini.
