Wide receivers coach Chris Beatty leaving Pitt to join Chargers staff
Pitt’s football staff lost a valuable member Friday when wide receivers coach Chris Beatty accepted the same job with the Los Angeles Chargers.
Thank you, Coach Beatty. pic.twitter.com/cNadOfO34T
— Pat Narduzzi (@CoachDuzzPittFB) January 29, 2021
Hired in 2019, Beatty has been one of coach Pat Narduzzi’s most productive recruiters, especially in the Virginia and Washington D.C. areas.
Beatty, 47, worked with new Chargers head coach Brandon Staley at Northern Illinois in 2007. Beatty will join the Chargers staff that also includes recently hired defensive coordinator Renaldo Hill, formerly a defensive backs coach at Pitt.
Beatty never has coached in the NFL, but he has worked in college football since 2006 at nine institutions. Before that he was a successful high school coach in Virginia.
Thanks to Beatty, Pitt has built strong recruiting connections in Virginia and surrounding areas. Four players from Pitt’s Class of 2021 — defensive end Naquan Brown, wide receiver Myles Alston and running backs Rodney Hammond and Malik Newton — played high school football there.
On the field, Beatty helped develop Jordan Addison into a freshman All-American wide receiver in 2020 — after recruiting him from Tuscarora High School in Frederick, Md.
After keeping his staff intact after the 2019 season, Narduzzi has lost two assistants this offseason. Linebackers coach Rob Harley left to take the defensive coordinator position at Arkansas State.
Jerry DiPaola is a TribLive reporter covering Pitt athletics since 2011. A Pittsburgh native, he joined the Trib in 1993, first as a copy editor and page designer in the sports department and later as the Pittsburgh Steelers reporter from 1994-2004. He can be reached at jdipaola@triblive.com.
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