Former Penn State QB Matt McGloin to Reunite With Bill O’Brien, Join Boston College Staff

Matt McGloin is set to reunite with his Penn State coach in a return to football. After a year as a Lackawanna County commissioner, McGloin officially resigned from his political post on Monday and will join Bill O’Brien as an offensive analyst at Boston College, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported on Monday.

McGloin played for the Nittany Lions for four seasons, becoming the program’s starting quarterback under O’Brien in 2012. In that season, McGloin led the Big Ten with 270 completions, 3,271 yards and 24 touchdowns, and won the Burlsworth Trophy for the nation’s most outstanding player who began their career as a walk-on.

After going undrafted in that spring’s NFL Draft, McGloin was signed as a free agent by the Oakland Raiders. He threw for 1,547 yards and eight touchdowns across six starts for the Raiders over his rookie year, but appeared in just six more games combined in the following three seasons. 

McGloin bounced around the NFL, signing gigs with the Philadelphia Eagles, Houston Texans and Kansas City Chiefs in 2017 and 2018 before joining the New York Guardians of the short-lived XFL in 2019. That would serve as McGloin’s final season of professional football prior to turning his lens toward politics.

He was elected alongside Bill Gaughan as Lackawanna County’s Democratic majority commissioners in 2023. They took office in January 2024.

McGloin is also an alumni-elected member of Penn State’s Board of Trustees who began his first three-year term in July 2024. It was not immediately clear if he planned to remain on the board.

O’Brien compiled a 7-6 record in his first season with the Eagles, a year that included a ranked victory over Florida State and a near upset over then-No. 6 Missouri.