Juston Wood

Juston Wood enters his first season as an analyst with Sun Devil Football.   Wood comes to ASU from Boise State where he was a quality control coach for one season. In that role, Wood worked with new ASU offensive coordinator Zak Hill with game planning and running the scout team defense. Wood was also responsible for all opponent data & analysis, weekly advance scouting report, special projects, and gameday coverage & adjustments. In his lone season with the program, Boise State went 12-2 and won the MWC championship.   Prior to his appointment at Boise State, Wood spent two seasons at Georgia Southern where he coached the wide receivers (2017) and quarterbacks (2018). In 2018, quarterback Shai Werts had one of the most efficient seasons in school history. Werts was the only FBS starting quarterback not to throw an interception and Georgia Southern became the first team in NCAA FBS history not to throw an interception all season as the Eagles won 10 games and the Camellia Bowl.    In his first year on the Georgia Southern staff, he molded a young group of receivers that featured a junior, three sophomores and a freshmen in the main rotation. That group combined to catch 57 passes for 871 and four touchdowns while recording nine plays of 25 yards or longer.    Wood, who played in the Arena Football League for three seasons, had eight successful seasons at Cal Poly. He was first the wide receivers coach at Cal Poly in 2009, then switched to coaching the quarterbacks in 2013 and was promoted to offensive coordinator in July 2016.   In 2016, his first season calling the plays, Cal Poly finished second in the FCS in rushing yards per game with an average of 343.5 yards. Fullback Joe Protheroe, offensive tackle Matt Fisher and center Joey Kuperman were named to the all-conference first team while senior quarterback Dano Graves made the second team.   Protheroe became Cal Poly’s 20th 1,000-yard rusher for a single season, accumulating 1,334 yards and scoring 13 touchdowns. He also caught seven passes for 139 yards and two more scores. Graves completed 63 percent of his passes (97 of 153) for 1,485 yards and 17 touchdowns. He was intercepted just four times and finished the regular season No. 1 in the Big Sky in passing efficiency. Graves also rushed for 686 yards and nine touchdowns, averaging 4.4 yards per carry with three games of 100 or more yards.   Wood coached Dominique Johnson, who caught 90 passes in the 2009 and 2010 seasons combined and signed an undrafted free agent contract with the Minnesota Vikings in July 2010.   In 2014 and 2015, Wood coached quarterback Chris Brown, who set a school record for rushing yards in a season by a quarterback (1,265)  and finished with over 3,000 career yards both rushing and passing.   Wood was a quarterback for the New York Dragons in 2006, Philadelphia Soul in 2007 and back with the Dragons in 2008 before the Arena Football League suspended operations prior to the 2009 campaign. In those three years, he completed 140 of 230 passes (61 percent) for 1,531 yards and 25 touchdowns.   He played for the Central Valley Coyotes of af2 in 2005, earned second-team All-National Conference honors, led af2 in total offense averaging 282.4 yards per game and passed for 4,361 yards and 89 touchdowns. He also played for the Coyotes in 2004, completing 60 of 105 passes for 651 yards and 15 scores. Wood signed as a free agent with the Minnesota Vikings on April 28, 2003.   Wood has had some experience in Hollywood as well, serving as a stunt double on “The Longest Yard” movie remake starring Adam Sandler and also shot a commercial for the  “Madden NFL 2005” video game.   Wood was a standout student-athlete under the tutelage of Tim Walsh at Portland State, twice earning ADA Academic All-American honors. He was a first-team All-Big Sky Conference selection at quarterback in 2001 and honorable mention in 2002, serving as team captain both seasons.   He ended his collegiate career ranked sixth in school history with 5,681 yards of total offense and finished his career with 5,653 passing yards, 37 touchdown passes, 414 completions and six 300-yard passing games. He led the Big Sky in passing as a junior.   Wood was a three-year varsity letter winner in football at David Douglas High School in Portland and served as an assistant coach at David Douglas High School for three seasons. Twice he earned all-conference honors in basketball. As a senior in high school, he played in the Oregon State All-Star Games in football, basketball and baseball.   Wood earned his bachelor’s degree in public health education at Portland State in April 2003 and married his wife Lindsay in 2014. The couple has a daughter, Avila, and a son, Cash.