Assumption Football Alumnus Ashton Grant ’19, named New England Patriots Quarterbacks Coach

The New England Patriots of the National Football League have hired Assumption University Alumnus Ashton Grant ’19 as the team’s Quarterbacks Coach, first reported by Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports Thursday evening. 
 
Grant played wide receiver for four seasons at Assumption in Worcester, where he set the school record for most touchdown receptions in a single season. He caught 13 touchdowns in 2016, paving the way to earning him Northeast-10 Conference Offensive Player of the Year honors. He is etched in the Assumption record books with the most overall receiving yards (3,204) and touchdown receptions (36) in school history.
 
After graduating in 2019, the Manchester, Connecticut native spent time in training camp with the Kansas City Chiefs and Chicago Bears and played for the Salt Lake Stallions in the now-defunct Alliance of American Football. When his playing days ended, he returned to Worcester and joined the coaching staff at Holy Cross as a quality control assistant in 2019.
 
Grant spent the last five seasons with the Cleveland Browns after the franchise gave him his first NFL job as part of the Bill Willis Coaching Fellowship in 2020. He remained in Cleveland in 2021 and was named the Browns offensive quality control coach in 2022. He was promoted to offensive assistant/quarterbacks coach in 2023.

This story originally appeared on assumptiongreyhounds.com