Tyler Osborne finished his second season as Stanford’s The Krishnamurthi Wide Receivers Coach and Assistant Quarterbacks Coach in 2024 following three seasons at Sacramento State as the wide receivers coach. Osborne was named to the AFCA 35 Under 35 Leadership Institute in December 2022. In August of 2023, Osborne was named to 247Sports 2023 30 Under 30 class, recognizing college football’s best coaches and personnel under the age of 30 each year. Later in August of 2023, Osborne was ranked as the top recruiter in the Pac-12, per 247Sports.
Stanford's offense continued to lean heavily on youth in 2024, with 83.6% of the team's receiving yards coming from underclassmen, the highest mark by far in FBS. For the second year in a row, a freshman receiver burst onto the scene and finished as one of the team's leading receivers. Emmett Mosley V tied for the team lead with six touchdowns and put up the most receiving yards by a true freshman at Stanford since Richard Sherman in 2006. His breakout game, similar to Elic Ayomanor's in 2023, came in a ranked win over No. 22/19 Louisville, where he caught 13 passes for 168 yards and three touchdowns. His 13 catches and three receiving touchdowns are the most in a single game by a true freshman Stanford receiver, and his 168 were the third-most.
Elic Ayomanor ranked sixth in the ACC in receptions and seventh in the conference in receiving yards, Mosley V for the team lead with six touchdowns. They became the first wide receiver duo at Stanford to each record six receiving touchdowns since Teyo Johnson and Luke Powell in 2001.
The Stanford wide receivers saw a noticeable jump in year one with Osborne on staff. The group was led by redshirt freshman breakout receiver Elic Ayomanor, who recorded 62 receptions for 1,013 yards and six touchdowns. Ayomanor led the nation amongst all freshmen in receiving yards per game and ranked fourth overall in the Pac-12. He also set the single-game program record for receiving yards in a game with 294 at Colorado. This led to Ayomanor receiving All-Pac-12 honorable mention honors, as well as being named Freshman First Team All-America (PFF) and the 2023 recipient of the Jon Cornish Trophy, given annually to the best college football player from Canada. Ayomanor was also named to the Fred Biletnikoff Award watchlist, given annually to the best receiver in college football.
Also under Osborne's watch was the emergence of true freshman wide receiver Tiger Bachmeier, who led the Pac-12 in receptions and receiving yards by a true freshman. Bachmeier ranked seventh and ninth in the NCAA in both categories, respectively.
Big plays were a theme of the Stanford offense all season long, as the team doubled its amount of 40+-yard passing plays from the 2022 season, and the team's most since 2019. Five of the team's 11 passing touchdowns went for 40 yards are more.
Prior to Stanford, Osborne was Sacramento State’s wide receivers coach under Troy Taylor from 2019-22, helping the program to a 30-8 record in three seasons, with three Big Sky championships, three Top-10 finishes and a 23-1 mark in conference action. Osborne coached wide receiver Pierre Williams to Big Sky Conference first team honors all three seasons.
In 2019, Osborne coached a group of receivers that combined with Hornet quarterbacks to set the school record for passing yards in a single season (3,832). Williams had a team-high 931 receiving yards on 54 catches. Nine different wide receivers caught passes during the year and the group combined for 18 touchdown receptions. In 2021, Williams again led the team in receiving after catching 50 passes for 764 yards and three touchdowns. The freshmen trio of Chris Miller, Jared Gipson and Devin Gandy all saw significant action in their collegiate debut season combining for 59 receptions for 1,003 yards and five TDs. In 2022, Williams led all Hornet wide receivers with 47 catches for 723 yards and nine touchdowns.
Osborne previously served as a graduate assistant coach at Washington in 2017 and 2018. In that role, he worked closely with the Husky wide receivers and was part of a staff which won 10 games both years. The 2017 team played in the Fiesta Bowl while the 2018 team won the Pac-12 title and moved on to the Rose Bowl. In his final year, Osborne helped coach a pair of receivers who had at least 55 catches and nearly 600 receiving yards during the year. He also coached Dante Pettis in 2017 before he was selected 44th overall by the San Francisco 49ers in the NFL Draft.
Osborne came to Washington after spending five years at Oregon. He started in 2012 as an undergraduate assistant coach for four years before serving as offensive analyst, focusing on quarterbacks, in 2016. As an undergrad, Osborne spent his first season directly under Chip Kelly and assisted him in coaching the slot receivers. The next four seasons he assisted coaching the Ducks’ quarterbacks. During that time, he helped coach Heisman Trophy winner Marcus Mariota, Vernon Adams and Justin Herbert.
During his time on the Oregon staff, the Ducks went to a CFP national championship game, a Rose Bowl, a Fiesta Bowl and two Alamo Bowls.
Osborne is the son of longtime college football coach Tom Osborne, a former Washington State wide receiver who spent 36 seasons coaching at Washington State, Portland State, Boise State, Arizona State and Oregon. The elder Osborne was known mostly as the Ducks’ tight ends and special teams coach for 16 seasons over two stretches.
He attended Sheldon High in Eugene, Ore., where he played football and baseball. A wide receiver, quarterback and defensive back on the football team, he helped Sheldon to the state title game in 2011.
Osborne earned a degree in finance and sports business from Oregon in 2016. He completed his master’s degree in intercollegiate athletics leadership at Washington in June of 2018. He and his wife, Anneke, live in Palo Alto.