Nick Grant is in his first season with Utah State as a junior analyst for the defense. The 2025 season will be his second year working for head coach Bronco Mendenhall.
Grant came to Utah State after spending the 2024 season as a defensive graduate assistant at New Mexico. He helped the Lobos to a 5-7 record, marking the program’s most wins in eight years. Their season was highlighted by a 38-35 victory against No. 19 Washington State, snapping a 26-game losing streak against nationally ranked teams. The UNM victory was its first win over a top-20 team since 1994 and its first non-conference win against a top-20 opponent since 1940.
Grant played six seasons at Virginia, redshirting in 2016 and earning five letters. He played in 59 games for the Cavaliers with 32 starts, recording 138 tackles, four interceptions, three forced fumbles and 24 pass breakups.
Grant signed with the Arizona Cardinals in the NFL after his collegiate career and played for the Houston Gamblers of the USFL and the Houston Roughnecks of the UFL.
The Spotsylvania, Virginia, native graduated from Virginia in 2020 with a bachelor’s degree in foreign affairs and earned his master’s in educational psychology in 2021.
