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Position: | Head coach | ||||||||||||
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Born: | Downey, California, U.S. | April 5, 1968||||||||||||
Height: | 6 ft 4 in (1.93 m) | ||||||||||||
Weight: | 200 lb (91 kg) | ||||||||||||
Career information | |||||||||||||
High school: | Cordova (Rancho Cordova, California) | ||||||||||||
College: | California | ||||||||||||
NFL draft: | 1990 / round: 4 / pick: 84 | ||||||||||||
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Head coaching record | |||||||||||||
Regular season: | 34–21 (.618) | ||||||||||||
Postseason: | NCAA: 1–3 (.250) | ||||||||||||
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Troy Scott Taylor (born April 5, 1968) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the head football coach at Stanford. He played professionally as a quarterback for the New York Jets of the National Football League (NFL). Taylor played college football at California-Berkeley and was selected by the Jets in the fourth round of the 1990 NFL draft.
After his playing career, Taylor served as co-head football coach at Folsom High School in Folsom, California, from 2012 to 2015;[1] co-offensive coordinator at Eastern Washington University in 2016;[2] offensive coordinator at the University of Utah from 2017 to 2018;[3] and as head coach at Sacramento State from 2019 to 2022.