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Brian Pariani Tight Ends Coach 19th NFL season 4th with Texans |
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Brian Pariani enters his fourth season with the Texans as the tight ends coach. Pariani is responsible for one of the more utilized units in the Texans’ offensive scheme. Under Pariani’s guidance, Owen Daniels has established himself as one of the best young tight ends in the NFL.
Daniels earned his first Pro Bowl trip in 2008 while under Pariani’s watch. The third-year pro caught 70 passes for 862 yards, both career-highs, and two touchdowns. He ranked among the top five AFC tight ends in receptions, receiving yards, first downs (46), yards per catch (12.3) and yards per game (53.9). In addition, Joel Dreessen also established career-highs in receptions and yards, catching 11 passes for 77 yards on the year.
In 2007, Pariani’s tight ends had what was then the most productive year in team history, combining to catch 73 passes for 859 yards and six touchdowns. They were led by Daniels, who was sixth among NFL tight ends with 63 receptions for 768 yards and three touchdowns. Dreessen caught four passes for 55 yards and the first two touchdowns of his career.
In his first season in Houston, Pariani developed Daniels, a fourth-round draft choice, into the most productive rookie tight end in the NFL and a first-team PFWA/Pro Football Weekly all-rookie selection. Daniels set the Texans rookie record with five receiving touchdowns, which matched wide receiver Andre Johnson for the team lead. Daniels finished his first year with 34 catches for 352 yards and five touchdowns, all of which were first among rookie tight ends.
The move to Houston returned Pariani to the pro coaching ranks after spending the 2005 season as the offensive coordinator at Syracuse University. He spent 1995-04 coaching the tight ends with the Denver Broncos alongside Texans head coach Gary Kubiak. Before his time with the Broncos, he coached with the San Francisco 49ers from 1991-94. Pariani teamed with Kubiak to bring the 49ers a Super Bowl championship in 1994.
In coaching with the Broncos during Super Bowl XXXII and XXXIII and with the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl XXIX, Pariani became one of only 17 coaches in the NFL to have won World Championships with two different organizations and one of nine coaches to have done it with teams from different conferences.
While with the Broncos, Pariani coached Shannon Sharpe, the leading receiving tight end in NFL history. Sharpe led the NFL in receptions by a tight end from 1996-98 averaging 73 catches over the three year span. Sharpe totaled 425 receptions for 5,373 yards and 38 touchdowns with Pariani. Sharpe retired in 2004 finishing his career with eight Pro Bowl selections. He retired as the NFL career record holder at the tight end position for receptions, with 815, and yards, with 10,060, and 62 touchdowns. On October 20, 2002, Sharpe set an NFL record with 214 receiving yards in a 37-34 OT win at Kansas City.
During his time in Denver, Pariani’s tight ends combined for 859 receptions and 9,948 receiving yards, most in the NFL over that 10-year period. In the running game, Pariani’s group helped lead the way for Denver to rush for 22,483 yards, most in the NFL from 1995-04.
In 1990, Pariani served as a scouting assistant with the San Francisco 49ers before being promoted to offensive coaches assistant in 1991. Pariani began his career at UCLA in 1989 as a graduate assistant.
Pariani was born in San Francisco and was a three sport athlete at Marin Catholic High School in Kentfield, Calif. Pariani and his wife, Stephanie, have two daughters, Jessica and Gianna. The family resides in Houston.
PARIANI’S COACHING LEDGER
2006-09: Tight Ends, Houston Texans
2005: Offensive Coordinator, Syracuse
1995-04: Tight Ends, Denver Broncos
1991-94: Offensive coaches assistant, San Francisco 49ers
1990: Scouting assistant, San Francisco 49ers
1989: Offensive graduate assistant, UCLA
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