Jacob Claborn began a new role with the Wyoming Football program in the spring of 2019 when he was selected as the Director of On-Campus Recruiting for Cowboy Football. He was an offensive graduate assistant the previous three seasons.
He will work directly with Director of Recruiting Ian McGrew in coordinating recruiting efforts for Cowboy Football. Claborn will particularly be focused on coordinating recruit visits when they come to the University of Wyoming campus.
Claborn has been part of a Wyoming program that earned bowl eligibility in four consecutive seasons (2016-19). During that four-year span, the Cowboys captured the 2019 NOVA Home Loans Arizona Bowl, won the 2017 Famous Idaho Potato Bowl, won the 2016 Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference and played in the 2016 MW Championship Game and went on to earn a spot in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.
The 2018 season saw Claborn assist in coaching the Wyoming offensive line. Among the offensive linemen he worked with was redshirt freshman center Keegan Cryder, who earned First Team Freshman All-America honors from the Football Writers Association of America (FWAA). The offensive line also helped senior running back Nico Evans rank No. 4 in the nation in rushing yards (132.5 yards per game) and post a 1,000-yard season (1,325 total rushing yards).
In the 2016 and ‘17 seasons, Claborn worked directly with the Cowboy tight ends. He helped coach a 2017 Cowboy team that won the Famous Idaho The 2016 season saw Claborn coach First Team All-Mountain West tight end Jacob Hollister, who went on to sign a free-agent contract with the New England Patriots. Claborn was part of a Wyoming team that won the Mountain Division of the Mountain West Conference and played in the 2016 MW Championship Game. The Cowboys went on to earn a spot in the San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl.
Claborn came to Wyoming in the spring of 2016 after coaching the offensive line as a full-time assistant coach at Central Washington University in Ellensburg, Wash., for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. Prior to that, Claborn spent two seasons as an offensive graduate assistant at St. Cloud State in St. Cloud, Minn., in 2012 and 2013. He served as the run-game coordinator, offensive line coach and tight ends coach at his alma mater, California Lutheran, for the 2011 season after coaching the O-Line and tight ends there in 2009 and 2010. He was originally a student assistant at Cal Lutheran in 2007 and ‘08. Claborn achieved his bachelor’s degree in exercise science and sports medicine from Cal Lutheran in 2009. He completed his master’s degree in educational administration and leadership from St. Cloud State in 2014. He is studying instructional technology at Wyoming. Claborn is originally from Santa Maria, Calif. He and his wife, Brett, have one daughter, Harper, and one son, Collin.