According to ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the Gophers football program is set to bring back C.J. Robbins as the team’s new rush ends coach. Robbins previously served as a coach for the Gophers in 2020 and 2021.
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Coaching the rush ends will be a familiar task for Robbins, who led that group during his previous two-year tenure at Minnesota. Robbins began his coaching career at Miami-Ohio and later served as the outside linebackers coach at South Dakota in 2022. In 2023, he joined former Gophers coach Kenni Burns at Kent State, where he took on the roles of rush ends coach and defensive recruiting coordinator. He also coached special teams and linebackers last season.
In January, Robbins was hired as the defensive line coach at Central Michigan.
An Illinois native, Robbins is a Northwestern alumn where he was a three-year starter as a defensive lineman. He went undrafted out of college but signed with the Tennessee Titans as an undrafted free agent in 2017.
Robbins previously worked at the U with the likes of Boye Mafe, who was a college standout and now plays for the Seattle Seahawks. Mafe had 11.5 sacks, including a career-high seven in 2021, in his two seasons under Robbins with Minnesota.
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