By Johnny Sanders, Sports Editor
TRUSSVILLE – From one HT to another, Leander Wallace took quite the leap from the high school ranks straight to the NFL, moving from Wide Receiver Coach/Passing Game Coordinator at Hewitt Trussville to Football Strategy and Participation Lead for the Houston Texans.
Wallace started with the Texans back in 2021 as a video assistant for player skill development. He moved from there to the Football Strategy and Participation Lead in 2022 and has now been promoted to offensive quality control coach.
Getting his start at the high school level in Alabama, Wallace was the offensive coordinator for Hatton High School (2015 – 2017) before moving to Deshler High School (2017 – 2018) to become wide receivers coach and then on to Hewitt Trussville (2018 – 2022) to coach wide receivers and serve as passing game coordinator for the Huskies.
Before all of this, the Tuscumbia, Alabama native earned a bachelor’s degree in English and education from the University of North Alabama (2010 – 2014) and then earning his master’s degree in educational leadership and administration from the University of Alabama (2018 – 2019).
In his new role, Coach Wallace works closely with the coaching and analytics staff as well as the scouting department. He also has to know offensive and defensive playbooks, creates profiles of opposing teams, enters practice data and provides practice reports for each practice.
Leander shares this experience with his wife, Madison, and their two sons, Hudson and Noah.