Toledo Head Coach Mike Jacobs Announces Staff Additions and Promotions

TOLEDO, Ohio —Toledo Head Coach Mike Jacobs announced the hiring of five new staff members and the retention of five others to the Rocket Football program today.

The new additions are Director of Player Personnel Tyler Miller, Director of Advance Scouting Jacob Bonacci, Assistant Quarterbacks Coach Kyle Ohradzansky, Nickelbacks Coach James Daniels and Special Teams Analyst Tim Hoover. Promotions were announced for Director of Football Operations Addie Shane and Video Coordinator Tim Hanna. Offensive Graduate Assistant Nick Rosi, defensive graduate assistant Jamahl Johnson, and Recruiting and Operations Assistant Kade Pelton will be retained in their current roles.

"We're very excited that this outstanding group of individuals are on our staff," said Jacobs, who compiled 94-23 record in 10 years as a head coach before joining the Rockets last December. "One of the ever-evolving aspects of college football is the size of the support staff and what's needed in the personnel department. So it is vital that we were able to attract experienced people like Tyler Miller from Purdue and Jacob Bonacci from Ohio State, and also retain Kade Pelton on the staff. They will be a key part of (General Manager) Logan Meyer's staff and help give us a really strong footing in recruiting and evaluation, both in high school and in the transfer portal.

"We've also added some talented coaches to our staff who have experience as coordinators. James Daniels worked with me at Notre Dame College and has experience as a coordinator at Tiffin. Kyle Ohradzansky worked as a coordinator at the Division II level at Findlay and Shippensburg State. Tim Hoover has been a coordinator at the Division III level. When you're adding assistants that have coordinator experience, that speaks volumes about your program.

"Finally, we were able to retain some outstanding individuals in support and graduate assistant roles. Tim Hanna will now be in charge of our video department. Addie Shane is our director of football operations after having been with the program for a number of years. And we're very pleased that Jamahl Johnson and Nick Rosi are back as graduate assistants on the coaching staff."

Here is a look at the latest additions to the Toledo Football coaching staff:

Addie Shane - Director of Football Operations
Addie Shane was promoted to the role of director of football operations. She previously served as the program's operations graduate assistant since 2023. Shane began her career as a football operations student assistant at Bowling Green, her alma mater. She will graduate this spring with an MBA from Toledo.

Tyler Miller - Director of Player Personnel
Tyler Miller is the new director of player personnel at Toledo. Miller previously served in a variety of roles at Purdue from 2022-25, including assistant director of player personnel, director of offensive scouting and camp director. Previous to that, Miller served as director of football operations/offensive analyst at Indiana Wesleyan in 2021, and worked in operations and recruiting roles at Missouri (2018-20), Purdue (2016-18) and Akron (2012-16). Miller earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Akron in 2012 and 2015, respectively.

Jacob Bonacci - Director of Advance Scouting
Jacob Bonacci joins the Rockets as the director of advance scouting. A 2025 graduate of Ohio State, Bonacci served as a student recruiting and scouting assistant at Ohio State from 2023-25 and at Cincinnati in 2022-23. He was part of an OSU staff that had the No. 3 recruiting class in the nation in 2024 and No. 5 in 2025. Most recently he held the title of player personnel assistant at Ohio University since last July.

Kyle Ohradzansky – Assistant Quarterback Coach
Kyle Ohradzansky joins the Toledo staff as the assistant quarterbacks coach. Previously, Ohradzansky served as an offensive coordinator at Findlay and Shippensburg State. He began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at Findlay in 2016, eventually moving into roles coaching quarterbacks and wide receivers. Ohradzansky then went to Shippensburg State where he was the offensive coordinator from 2021-22. He returned to Findlay as the offensive coordinator in 2023. He was part of NCAA Playoff teams at Findlay in 2017 and 2025. Ohradzansky has coached 16 all-conference players in his career, including three who made it to the NFL: Jason Moore (LA Chargers), Drew Ogletree (Indianapolis Colts) and Redd Douglas (New York Giants). Ohradzansky played quarterback at Lafayette and Baldwin Wallace, graduating from BWU in 2014.

James Daniels – Nickelbacks Coach
James Daniels joins the Rockets as the nickelbacks coach. Daniels has 12 years of college coaching experience, most recently coaching at Tiffin as defensive coordinator/defensive backs coach for the past two seasons. Prior to that, he coached cornerbacks at Lehigh in 2023; served as defensive backs coach and pass defense coordinator at East Stroudsburg from 2020-22; and coached nickelbacks and linebackers at Dayton in 2019. He also had coaching stops at Buffalo, Marietta, Notre Dame College, Ohio Northern, Becker College and Towson. Daniels played running back at Division III powerhouse Mount Union, winning a national championship as a freshman in 2008 and adding national runner-up finishes in each of the next three seasons. He earned his bachelor's degree from Mount Union in 2011 and his master's degree in 2014.

Tim Hoover - Special Teams Analyst
Tim Hoover joins the Rockets as a special teams analyst. Hoover previously was a linebackers coach/special teams coordinator at Wisconsin Eau-Claire (2024-25), a defensive analyst at Eastern Washington (2022-23), a linebackers coach at Wisconsin-Platteville (2020-21) and a graduate assistant at Wisconsin-Whitewater (2019). Hoover graduated from Illinois State in 2019 and received his master's degree from UW-Whitewater in 2021.

Tim Hanna - Video Coordinator
Tim Hanna becomes the Rockets' video coordinator after serving as a video graduate assistant in 2025. He is a 2025 graduate of Ohio University, where he served as an assistant video coordinator in 2024. Hanna served for more than six years in the Ohio Army National Guard, with deployments to Eastern Europe and Iraq.

Kade Pelton - Recruiting and Operations Assistant
Kade Pelton is in his second season as the recruiting and operations assistant at Toledo, where he assists with day-to-day recruiting operations, prospect evaluation and program logistics. Pelton began his career as a student assistant at Bowling Green in 2020, and also served as an intern for the Atlanta Falcons (2023) and New England Patriots (2024).

Nick Rosi - Offensive Graduate Assistant
Former All-MAC offensive lineman Nick Rosi enters his second season as an offensive graduate assistant. Rosi played on the offensive line for the Rockets from 2018-23, earning First-Team All-MAC honors in 2022 and 2023. In 2019, he made Third-Team All-MAC and was named to the FWAA Freshman All-America Team. Rosi was a four-time Academic All-MAC selection and earned a bachelor's degree in healthcare administration in 2022.

Jamahl Johnson - Defensive Graduate Assistant
Jamahl Johnson is in his third season as a defensive graduate assistant at the University of Toledo. He had previous coaching stops at Ohio Dominican (2022-23) and Wittenberg (2020-21). Johnson was a defensive lineman at Iowa State from 2016-20, totaling 49 tackles, 9.5 tackles for loss and four sacks in 42 games played. In his senior season, Johnson was an All-Big 12 Honorable Mention selection. Johnson played professionally in the XFL for the San Antonio Brahmas in 2023 and in the IFL for the NAZ Wranglers in 2022. Johnson graduated from Iowa State with a bachelors degree in criminal justice in 2020.

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