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Q&A with Cowboy Football offensive line coach Cody Crill
April 06, 2026 | Cowboy Football
Oklahoma State offensive line coach Cody Crill
On his move to Stillwater:
"I enjoyed it. My daughter is here and she's a freshman, so I'm excited about her being here and having my family here."
On the advantage he brings with experience in the offense:
"Scoring a lot of points is what we plan to do, winning a lot of games too. I guess the biggest advantage I have is I know how everything fits because I've coached every part of the offense in this offense, so that's probably my biggest advantage now. Correlating that in with the o-line and we're not ever working separate from each other, we are all working together in the same way with each position group."
On what goes into successful running games:
"Having a good quarterback, being able to throw the ball helps a lot. It's hard to run the ball when there's loaded boxes, if they want to load the box, we need to probably throw it. They want to give us light boxes we got a way better chance of running the ball. Everything we do, whether it's pass [protection] or run game, we're going to choose violence, that is one of our core things that we do it around."
On what traits he looks for in an offensive line:
"You got to have the right mentality; you have to find people that want to choose violence every day and be physical. Another thing is athletic ability, flexibility, size and length. The first two are being a guy that wants to choose violence and then also understand how hard or how much work this involves and can process things like that. Having the athletic traits that we are looking for and then size. The biggest thing is you have to see them in person and then talk to them a lot on the phone and talk to other coaches, talk to anybody that works with them. Find how their personality is, how they tick so as much time as you spend with them, try to get them to camps, go to camps, see them play and watch film."
On what stands out about Tyler Mercer:
"First, he is a good man. He is a good teammate, smart kid, works hard, not afraid to put in extra work, has a lot of great qualities that pay off for somebody. Then I think he is a tough kid and has some athletic ability."
On his third coaching stint with Eric Morris:
"He is the best guy I have ever worked for except for when I was a head coach. He is a great man to work for; he's just a genuine human being and really cares about his coaches. Cares about his players and that kind of filters over into everything else in the program. That is going to keep growing and developing as we go."
On his move to Stillwater:
"I enjoyed it. My daughter is here and she's a freshman, so I'm excited about her being here and having my family here."
On the advantage he brings with experience in the offense:
"Scoring a lot of points is what we plan to do, winning a lot of games too. I guess the biggest advantage I have is I know how everything fits because I've coached every part of the offense in this offense, so that's probably my biggest advantage now. Correlating that in with the o-line and we're not ever working separate from each other, we are all working together in the same way with each position group."
On what goes into successful running games:
"Having a good quarterback, being able to throw the ball helps a lot. It's hard to run the ball when there's loaded boxes, if they want to load the box, we need to probably throw it. They want to give us light boxes we got a way better chance of running the ball. Everything we do, whether it's pass [protection] or run game, we're going to choose violence, that is one of our core things that we do it around."
On what traits he looks for in an offensive line:
"You got to have the right mentality; you have to find people that want to choose violence every day and be physical. Another thing is athletic ability, flexibility, size and length. The first two are being a guy that wants to choose violence and then also understand how hard or how much work this involves and can process things like that. Having the athletic traits that we are looking for and then size. The biggest thing is you have to see them in person and then talk to them a lot on the phone and talk to other coaches, talk to anybody that works with them. Find how their personality is, how they tick so as much time as you spend with them, try to get them to camps, go to camps, see them play and watch film."
On what stands out about Tyler Mercer:
"First, he is a good man. He is a good teammate, smart kid, works hard, not afraid to put in extra work, has a lot of great qualities that pay off for somebody. Then I think he is a tough kid and has some athletic ability."
On his third coaching stint with Eric Morris:
"He is the best guy I have ever worked for except for when I was a head coach. He is a great man to work for; he's just a genuine human being and really cares about his coaches. Cares about his players and that kind of filters over into everything else in the program. That is going to keep growing and developing as we go."
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