Weber State University Athletics
Football
- Title:
- Assistant Coach / Quarterbacks
- Email:
- kellybills1@weber.edu
The 2018 season was the third season for Kelly Bills as an assistant coach at Weber State. He has helped lead the Wildcats to the FCS Playoffs in each of his three seasons and back-to-back Big Sky titles the last two seasons. He joined the Wildcat program in February 2016.
In 2018, Weber State repeated as Big Sky champions for the first time in school history and finished the season 10-3 overall. WSU advanced to the quarterfinals of the FCS Playoffs and finished the season ranked sixth in the nation.Â
During the 2018 season, Bills coached the Weber State quarterbacks after coaching wide receivers his first two years.Â
In 2017, Bills helped lead Weber State to its best season in school history. The Wildcats won the Big Sky Conference title, won a school-record 11 games, won two games in the FCS Playoffs and were ranked in the top five in the nation, the highest ranking in school history.Â
Under his coaching, freshman wide receiver Rashid Shaheed earned All-America and first team All-Big Sky honors and senior Drew Batchelor earned All-Conference honors.Â
In 2016, Bills helped lead Weber State to a 7-5 record, a third-place finish in the Big Sky Conference and WSU’s first trip to the FCS Playoffs in seven years. Bills coached senior wide receiver Cameron Livingston to honorable mention All-Big Sky honors.Â
Bills came to Weber State after spending the 2015 season as an offensive graduate assistant coach at Utah State. He assisted the Aggie offensive coaches in all daily football operations.
He spent two seasons (2013, 2014) as the offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach at Willamette University, a Division III school in Salem, Ore. Under his direction, Willamette averaged 42 points per game and led the conference in total offense. The team also set 23 individual offensive records. He coached 11 All-Conference players in his two seasons, including Dylan Jones who earned first-team All-American and Northwest Conference Offensive Player of the Year honors. Jones also led the nation in rushing yards per game at 177.7.Â
Prior to that, Bills spent five seasons (2008-12) as an assistant coach at his alma mater, BYU, under head coach Bronco Mendenhall. Bills was the offensive quality control coach for the Cougars during the 2008 and 2009 seasons and also worked with wide receivers and quarterbacks. From 2010-12, he was an offensive graduate assistant at BYU, coaching quarterbacks and the offensive line. During his time with the Cougars, BYU posted a 46-19 record and went to five-straight bowl games.Â
He began his college playing career as a quarterback at Southern Utah where he spent the 2003 season under head coach Gary Andersen. Following an LDS Church mission, he transferred to BYU where he played running back and special teams for two seasons (2006-07).
Bills is a native of Littleton, Colo., and graduated from Arapahoe High School where he set school passing records while throwing for 25 touchdowns as a senior.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in History from BYU in 2011. He and his wife Emily have two boys, Brooks and Cooper.
