Josh Grizzard enters his fourth season with the Miami Dolphins after he was named offensive quality control coach on Feb. 10, 2017. He moved to quality control coach in 2019 and was promoted to wide receivers coach in 2020.
In 2019, Grizzard worked closely with the wide receivers as DeVante Parker compiled one of the best seasons by a receiver in Dolphins history. Parker set career highs in receptions (72), receiving yards (1,202) and receiving touchdowns (9) and his 1,202 receiving yards were the most b ya wide receiver in the AFC and
ranked fifth among all NFL players. The total was sixth in single-season team history. Rookie Preston Williams had 32 receptions for 428 yards (13.4 avg.) and three touchdowns before suffering a season-ending injury midway through the season. His 32 receptions were tied for the most by any NFL rookie at the time of the injury.
In 2018, Grizzard helped the Dolphins offense improve from 24th to ninth in the NFL with a 4.68 yards per carry average. Running back Kenyan Drake surpassed 1,000 yards from scrimmage (1,012) for the first time in his career. Frank Gore averaged 4.63 yards per carry, the most in NFL history by a player at least 35 years old. He recorded 722 yards on the ground despite missing the final two games due to injury. The Dolphins also set an NFL record with three different wide receivers throwing a touchdown in the same season – Albert Wilson, Danny Amendola and Kenny Stills.
In his first season in Miami in 2017, Grizzard helped Drake lead the NFL with 444 rushing yards in the final five weeks of the season. Drake was tied for second in the league with three runs of 40-plus yards despite having just 152 carries on the season. In his first two games as the team's primary running back, Drake topped 100 yards for the first two times in his career.
Grizzard spent the previous four seasons (2013-16) at Duke where he was a graduate assistant/quality control working primarily with the quarterbacks. He was promoted into that role following the 2013 season, when he served as a football operations assistant. Grizzard helped the Blue Devils to their best three-year stretch (2013-15) in school history with 27 total wins, an ACC Coastal division title and three consecutive bowl appearances.
In 2016, he worked with quarterback Daniel Jones and helped the redshirt freshman rank No. 6 in the ACC and lead all conference freshmen with 276.8 yards of total offense per game. In 2015, Grizzard helped first-year starter Thomas Sirk throw for 2,625 yards and 16 touchdowns while rushing for 803 yards and eight more scores. Sirk became one of just three quarterbacks in ACC history to throw for 2,500-plus yards and rush for 800-plus yards in a single season. His 3,428 total offensive yards were second all-time in single-season school history.
The 2014 Blue Devils featured five All-ACC selections and compiled 421 total points, the second-most in school history. Quarterback Anthony Boone, the winningest quarterback in the history of Duke football, earned All-ACC honors and the team finished in the conference's top five in six offensive statistics.
Grizzard played defensive back at Yale and graduated with a degree in political science. He earned his master's degree in Christian studies from Duke. Grizzard is a native of Zebulon, North Carolina and currently resides in Fort Lauderdale. His last name is pronounced Grizz-ARD.
