Danny Langsdorf

Langsdorf began his college coaching career in 1996 at California Lutheran University in Thousand Oaks. In 1997, Langsdorf came to Oregon State as a graduate assistant. During these first two years at Oregon State he worked with the offense, particularly focusing on the tight ends. He was part of the coaching team that transformed the offense from the wishbone to a multiple set.

After completing his two years as a graduate assistant, Langsdorf coached with the Edmonton Eskimos of the Canadian Football League (CFL). Langsdorf was the wide receivers coach in 1999 before becoming the Eskimos' quarterbacks coach from 2000 to 2001. His guidance helped the Eskimos lead the CFL in total yards in 2001 with 6,606.

In 2002, Langsdorf went to coach for the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL). With the Saints, he was the offensive assistant/quality control coach in 2002 and the assistant wide receivers/special teams coach in 2003 and 2004.'

Langsdorf's second tenure at Oregon State began in 2005 when he was hired by Mike Riley to become the offensive coordinator for the Oregon State Beavers.

On January 24, 2014, Langsdorf was hired by the New York Giants as their quarterbacks coach. Under his watch, quarterback Eli Manning completed a career-best 63.1 percent of his passes that season, as well as the second-highest passer rating and yardage of his career.^[1]

On January 15, 2015, Langsdorf was hired by the Nebraska Cornhuskers as their offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach.^[2]

Langsdorf spent the 2018 season as an offensive analyst for the Oregon Ducks football program^[3] before joining Jeff Tedford's staff as their quarterbacks coach.

On January 9, 2020, Langsdorf was hired by former Oregon Ducks offensive coordinator and current UNLV head coach Marcus Arroyo to serve as the passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach for the Rebels.^[4]

On March 4, almost two months after being hired by UNLV, Langsdorf departed the Rebels coaching staff to join Karl Dorrell's staff at Colorado.^[5]

In January 2022, Langsdorf was hired to be Stan Drayton's offensive coordinator at Temple.

On March 16, 2026, Langsdorf was hired to be John Hauser's wide receiver coach at Ohio.^[6]

Langsdorf is married to the former Michele Bertrand, a softball standout at Linfield who still appears in the school record books for her pitching prowess.

In May 2007, Langsdorf underwent surgery to donate a kidney to Laurie Cavanaugh. Laurie is the wife of offensive line coach Mike Cavanaugh, who coached with Langsdorf at Oregon State at the time.^[7]