Mike Elko elevates John Perry to Texas A&M's wide receivers coach

Mike Elko has elevated John Perry to wide receivers coach.

TexAgs co-owner and executive editor Billy Liucci was first to report the move.

A veteran with over 30 years of coaching experience, Perry joined Texas A&M’s coaching staff as an assistant wide receivers coach prior to the 2025 season.

Most recently the assistant wide receivers coach under Greg Schiano at Rutgers since 2023, Perry’s resume includes a five-season stint as the head coach at Merrimack and seven years as an assistant for the NFL’s Houston Texans.

This move comes after offensive coordinator Collin Klein left A&M to become the head coach at Kansas State, and wide receiver coach Holmon Wiggins was promoted to direct the Aggie offense.

Perry, 55, is a 1992 graduate of the University of New Hampshire, where he played both football and basketball for the Wildcats before beginning his coaching career as the running backs coach at Northeastern in 1993. Stops at Brown (1994-96), New Hampshire (1997-98, 2007), Dartmouth (1999-2004), Georgetown (2005) and Hofstra (2006) followed before he was hired to be the head coach of Merrimack in 2008.

During his five seasons in North Andover, Massachusetts, the Warriors went 29-21 with a 23-16 in the Northeast-10 Conference. In 2009, Merrick posted a 6-2 league record to claim the NE-10 conference title. That year, the Warriors were second the FCS in total offense with 525.8 yards per game while running his up-tempo, high-scoring style of offense.

Perry then spent one season as Delaware’s passing game coordinator and quarterbacks coach before Bill O’Brien brought him to the NFL in 2014.

Splitting time as the Texans’ tight end coach (2014-16) and wide receiver coach (2017-20), Perry helped the franchise capture four AFC South division championships and a pair of playoff victories. 

After O’Brien’s tenure in Houston ended, Perry stayed in the Lone Star State to serve as Sam Houston’s offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach in 2022 before joining Schiano in Piscataway.