Former Sayville star Jack Coan can add another trophy to his mantle this week after helping the Saskatchewan Roughriders win the Canadian Football League’s Grey Cup. Coan, a former Hansen Award winner as Suffolk County’s top football player, led the Golden Flashes to two Suffolk titles and one Long Island championship. Now he is a champion again, as the Roughriders prevailed 25–17 in the Grey Cup Final. The Sayville native serves as a backup quarterback but saw action in multiple games this season, and he has stated that while his goal is to help the team win, he ultimately hopes to earn a starting job. Before heading to Canada, Coan attended the University of Wisconsin.
He became the Badgers’ undisputed starter in 2019, throwing for 2,727 yards and 18 touchdowns, but a foot injury forced him to miss the following season. In 2021, he transferred to Notre Dame.
Coan passed for 3,150 yards and 25 touchdowns with only seven interceptions while helping Notre Dame finish 11–2 in 2021. After college, he set Fiesta Bowl records for passing yards (509) and touchdown passes (five) against Oklahoma State on January 1, 2022.
On May 13, 2022, Coan signed with the NFL’s Indianapolis Colts as an undrafted free agent. He appeared in three preseason games, going 7-for-11 for 83 yards against the Detroit Lions on August 20, 2022. He threw a 27-yard touchdown pass to Samson Nacua with 38 seconds left to cut the Colts’ deficit to 27–26, though the ensuing two-point attempt failed. Coan finished with a 116.9 passer rating but was among the team’s final cuts two days later.
In 2023, Coan played for the XFL’s San Antonio Brahmas, throwing for 1,403 yards and six touchdowns in eight games and earning NFL tryouts with the San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks before signing with the Grey Cup champs.