Football
- Title:
- Wide Receivers / Recruiting Coordinator
- Email:
- fbrecruiting@missouri.edu
- Phone:
- 882-2214
Jacob Peeler joined the Tigers football program in January 2022, and serves as an assistant coach, working primarily with wide receivers. He is also in charge of Mizzou’s recruiting efforts.
He has over 15 years of coaching experience, including three as an offensive coordinator at Texas State (2020-21) and Ole Miss (2019). In three years of managing Mizzou’s recruiting presence, Peeler has taken the Tigers from securing the No. 32 signing class in 2023 to back-to-back top 25 finishes at No. 21 (2024) and No. 14 (2025). He also helped sign three of the Tigers’ all-time top-rated prospects including in-state, five-star recruit Luther Burden III and Williams Nwaneri.
Peeler continued to have a hand in the development of Burden III after he arrived in Columbia, coaching him to two-time First Team All-SEC honors (2023 and 2024) and Second Team All-America recognition in 2023. The Biletnikoff Award semifinalist concluded his three-year career registering 192 receptions for 2,263 yards (11.79) with 21 touchdowns in 38 career games (33 starts). He finished his career riding a 34-game consecutive reception streak, which ranked as the second longest in program history, and ranked fourth in career receptions, tied for fifth in receiving touchdowns and sixth in receiving yards. He would later go on to be a second-round draft choice of the Chicago Bears (39th pick overall) in the 2025 NFL Draft.
Peeler also mentored Theo Wease Jr. after the Allen, Texas, native transferred from Oklahoma prior to the 2023 season. He concluded his career by carding 173 receptions for 2,610 yards (15.09) with 20 touchdowns in 62 career games (43 starts). He recorded one-plus reception in every game as a Tiger (26) and wrapped up his career with four touchdown receptions in four different seasons (2020, 2022, 2023, 2024). After graduation, Wease Jr. signed as an undrafted free agent with the Miami Dolphins.
Over a two-year span from 2023-24, Peeler coached the duo of Burden III and Wease Jr. to become the first Mizzou pair to achieve 600-plus receiving yards in back-to-back seasons since Emanuel Hall and Johnathon Johnson did so in 2017 (817 & 724) and 2018 (828 & 737).
Peeler arrived in Columbia after a two-year stint (2020-21) at Texas State as its offensive coordinator. During his time in San Marcos, Texas, the Bobcats produced eight offensive All-Sun Belt Conference honorees. Additionally, offensive lineman Dalton Cooper was named a Second Team Freshman All-America selection by The Athletic following the 2020 season.
Under Peeler guidance, the Bobcat offense increased its rushing output in 2020 by nearly 65 percent from the previous season and averaged 369.7 total yards and 27.7 points per game. It was the most yards gained for the Bobcats since 2015 and the most points scored since 2014.
Marcell Barbee led the Bobcats in back-to-back seasons with 40 catches in 2020 and 2021. The Pueblo, Colo., native logged 584 and 520 receiving yards as well as 10 and five touchdowns, respectively, during that stretch. His 10 touchdowns ranked second in the Sun Belt Conference in 2020. The wide receivers position accounted for seven of the top nine reception leaders in 2020, and also included Second Team All-America return specialist Jeremiah Haydel, who caught 40 passes for 408 yards and four scores.
Peeler joined the Texas State staff after serving three years at Ole Miss under head coach Matt Luke. He was the wide receivers coach in 2017 and 2018 before being elevated to co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach his final season in 2019. During his tenure, Rebel receivers caught at least 39 passes five times and tallied more than 600 yards receiving six times.
While in Oxford, Peeler helped produce two of the NFL’s best 2019 rookie wide receivers in Tennessee Titan A.J. Brown and Seattle Seahawk D.K. Metcalf. Brown joined the Titans after he was a two-time All-American who rewrote the receiving records at Ole Miss. He ended his three-year career as the school’s all-time leader with 2,984 receiving yards and 12 100-yard receiving performances in his career. Brown earned Second-Team All-America, First-Team All-SEC honors, and was a Conerly Trophy winner and Biletnikoff Award semifinalist after setting the school’s single-season receiving marks both seasons. He set single-season records with 85 catches and breaking his own mark with 1,320 receiving yards in 2018.
In Peeler’s first season at Ole Miss, Brown set the school’s previous record with 1,252 receiving yards and tied another single-season mark with 11 receiving touchdowns. He also is the only wide receiver in Ole Miss history with two 1,000-yard seasons.
In addition to Brown, DaMarkus Lodge had 65 catches for 877 yards and four TDs in 2018. Lodge (698) and Metcalf (646) combined for 1,344 yards and 14 touchdowns in 2017. Elijah Moore had 67 catches for 850 yards and six touchdowns in 2019.
From 2013-16, Peeler served on staff at California as the Golden Bears’ offensive graduate assistant (2013-14) before being promoted to the inside wide receivers coach (2015-16). Peeler helped turn Cal’s offense into one of the nation’s best, as the Bears ranked in the top 10 nationally in passing offense, top 15 in total offense and top 25 in scoring offense for three-straight seasons.
He helped sign a strong 2016 class highlighted by wide receiver Demetris Robertson, considered the nation’s top-ranked receiver by Rivals.com, and 247Sports.com. In his freshman campaign, Robertson hauled in 50 catches for 767 yards and seven touchdowns en route to receiving Freshman All-America accolades from several national outlets.
In 2016, Peeler assisted with a Cal offense that finished fourth nationally in passing (358.8), 10th in total offense (513.2), and 22nd in scoring (37.1). He mentored freshman Melquise Stovall (42 catches, 415 yards, three touchdowns) to become an immediate contributor.
The inside receivers played a significant role in the Golden Bears’ 8-5 record in 2015 and a victory in the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl over Air Force, Cal’s first bowl win since 2008. Cal’s offense set numerous single-season records in passing yardage (4,892), passing yards per game (376.3), passing touchdowns (44), total offense (6,879), total yards per game (529.2), total touchdowns (63), scoring offense (37.9), first downs (341) and first downs passing (201).
Cal set or equaled nine single-season school or modern-era records on the offensive side of the ball in 2014 while Peeler was a graduate assistant working with the inside receivers. Cal ranked in the NCAA’s top 25 in seven different offensive categories in 2014, including passing offense (6th, 346.0), scoring offense (10th, 38.3), and total offense (13th, 495.2).
During his time at Cal, Peeler he coined his positional group the ‘Nasty Wide Outs”, and developed the likes of NFL players Richard Rodgers and Stephen Anderson.
Prior to Cal, Peeler spent four years at his alma mater, Louisiana Tech, from 2009-12. He was a graduate assistant working with inside receivers in 2012 after serving the three previous seasons in quality control roles on the offense.
Before returning to Louisiana Tech, he coached one year at Itawamba Community College (Fulton, Miss.) in 2008, serving as its tight ends and assistant offensive line coach.
Peeler played every offensive snap for two seasons at Holmes Community College in 2002 and 2003, earning All-America, First-Team All-NJCAA Region 23, and First-Team All-State honors. He later transferred to Louisiana Tech, where he was a two-year letterwinner (2005-06) and one-year starter (2006) along the offensive line.
A native of Kosciusko, Miss., Peeler graduated from Louisiana Tech with a bachelor's degree education in 2007. He added a master’s degree in sports physical education from the Mississippi State University in 2008.
Peeler is married to the former Tori Hollis of Haughton, La., and they are the parents of Grayson, and twins Hollis and Hallie.
THE JACOB PEELER FILE
Hometown: Kosciusko, Miss.
Education: Louisiana Tech, 2007 (social studies education); Mississippi State, 2008 (physical education)
Wife: Tori
Children: Grayson, Hollis and Hallie
Birthday: January 6, 1984
PEELER’S COACHING CAREER
- 2022-pres. – Missouri (Wide Receivers/Recruiting Coordinator)
- 2020-21 – Texas State (Offensive Coordinator)
- 2019 – Ole Miss (Co-Offensive Coordinator/Wide Receivers)
- 2017-18 – Ole Miss (Wide Receivers)
- 2015-16 – California (Inside Wide Receivers)
- 2013-14 – California (Graduate Assistant/Inside Wide Receivers)
- 2012 – Louisiana Tech (Graduate Assistant/Inside Wide Receivers)
- 2009-11 – Louisiana Tech (Quality Control Assistant/Quarterbacks/Wide Receivers/Offensive Line)
- 2008 – Itawamba Community College (Tight Ends/Assistant Offensive Line)
