Lester Erb

Lester L. Erb (born April 22, 1969) is an American football coach and former player. He formerly was the running back coach and wide receivers coach at Rutgers University.^[1]

Lester Erb

Current position
Title	Offensive Analyst
Team	LSU
Conference	SEC
Biographical details
Born	(1969-04-22) April 22, 1969 (age 56) Milton, Pennsylvania
Playing career
1988–1990	Bucknell
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1991–1993	Hobart (Wide Receivers)
1994–1996	Syracuse (Assistant)
1997–1998	Baltimore Ravens (Assistant)
1999	Army (TE)
2000–2007	Iowa (WR/ST)
2008–2012	Iowa (RB/ST)
2013–2016	Nevada (RB/ST)
2017	Rutgers (RB)
2018–2019	Rutgers (WR)
2020-2021	Baltimore Ravens (OQC)
2022-present	LSU (OA)

Coaching career

Baltimore Ravens

Lester Erb was an offensive quality control coach for the Baltimore Ravens for two seasons.

Iowa Hawkeyes

After a year coaching tight ends at Army, Erb joined the former Ravens offensive line and assistant head coach Kirk Ferentz one year after Ferentz became the Iowa head coach, and coached running backs and wide receivers there.^[2] Erb was named one of the top recruiters in the nation while coaching at Iowa.^[3][4]

Nevada

Erb spent a four years coaching special teams and running backs at Nevada.

Rutgers

On January 6, 2017, it was announced that Erb would be leaving to take over as the running back coach for Rutgers.^[5][6] In 2018 it was decided that Erb would switch from coaching running backs to wide receivers.^[7] When Greg Schiano retook control of the program in 2020 it was announced that Erb would no longer be coaching for the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.