Penn State is bringing back Tyler Bowen as an assistant coach, sources have confirmed to Lions247.

Bowen will arrive after a one-year stint at Maryland, where he coached the offensive line during a 4-8 campaign. From 2008-09, he played along the Terrapins’ O-line until a career-ending injury hit in 2010. He then served as a student assistant and later a graduate assistant at Maryland for the next two seasons. Departing from College Park in 2013, he coached tight ends at nearby Towson, a one-year stop that led to another 12-month stay at Penn State.

Working an offensive graduate assistant in State College, Bowen reunited with James Franklin whom he’d played for during his time as a player at Maryland. Following the 2014 season, Bowen was hired away to become the newest offensive line coach at Fordham under then head coach Joe Moorhead.

Soon after Moorhead took off to become Penn State’s offensive coordinator in December 2015, Bowen was promoted from the Rams’ offensive line coach to offensive coordinator. Fordham averaged better than 40 points per game in his lone season at the helm, good for fourth in the FCS. Four Rams offensive linemen earned All-America recognition during Bowen’s two years at Fordham. He returned back to his alma mater in February 2017.

Prior to the Nittany Lions’ regular-season finale at Maryland, Bowen was the only non-coordinator to be mentioned in the opening statement of Franklin’s Tuesday press conference in the week leading up to kickoff. He said, “They also have Tyler Bowen there. You know Tyler played for at me Maryland, was a graduate assistant, their offensive line coach. Doing a great job.”

Bowen is originally from Georgia and handled most of the Terps’ offensive line recruiting under DJ Durkin. Maryland has one of the top offensive line classes in the Big Ten in the 2018 cycle and Bowen was the recruiter for Penn State target Rasheed Walker.