Eric Mateos | Football Coach | Wisconsin Badgers

Eric Mateos

Title:
Offensive Line

Eric Mateos joined the Badgers’ coaching staff in December 2025 as offensive line coach. Mateos arrived in Madison after two seasons leading the offensive line unit at Arkansas and has made a variety of stops across the college football landscape, including stints directing units on staff with current Badger offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes.

Most recently, the duo of Mateos and Grimes spent three seasons (2021-23) together at Baylor with Grimes directing the offense and Mateos leading the offensive line. In 2021, Baylor’s line paved the way for the best rushing attack in the Big 12 and 10th-best in the FBS at 219.3 yards per game en route to semifinalist status for the Joe Moore Award, given annually to the nation’s best offensive line. The following season Baylor totaled 34 rushing touchdowns, averaging 182.4 rushing yards and 231.5 passing yards per game.

Over two seasons at Arkansas (2024 and 2025), Mateos helped rebuild a Razorbacks offensive line that finished the 2025 season as the nation’s No. 2 rated line according to Pro Football Network. Arkansas possessed a top-20 offense nationally, averaging 454.8 yards per game, including 191.9 per game on the ground. The Razorbacks ranked top-10 nationally in yards per carry. In 2024, the Arkansas offense ranked No. 10 in total offense and No. 2 in run efficiency.

In 2024 at Arkansas, Mateos’ offensive line paved the way for 34 rushing touchdowns – second-most in school history – while averaging 184.8 yards per game. Running back Ja’Quinden Jackson received a Second-Team All-SEC nod from the Associated Press after rushing for 15 scores and a team-high 790 yards.

Named to Dave Campbell Texas Football’s 40 under 40 list in 2023, Mateos has coached 13 NFL players including eight draft picks since 2014.

At Baylor, Mateos’ 2022 veteran offensive line protected for one of the best offenses in Baylor history with the team’s 34 rushing touchdowns ranking seventh in school history and the team’s total offense of 5,380 yards ranking 10th. Baylor averaged 182.4 yards per game rushing to go along with 231.5 yards per game passing.

In 2021, Mateos’ first offensive line paved the way for the best rushing attack in the Big 12 and 10th-best in the FBS running for 219.3 yards per game. The line also protected the QB at an elite level, giving up just 1.29 sacks per game to rank second in the league. The men up front were also a semifinalist for the Joe Moore Award, given annually to the nation’s best offensive line.

Prior to his time at Baylor, Mateos spent two seasons (2019-20) at BYU. His second line for the Cougars was impressive in 2020 as the Cougs finished 11-1, led by an offense that finished the season in the Top 15 in 10 different statistical categories, including third in points per game (43.5), seventh in total offense (522.2 ypg) and eighth in passing yards (332.1 ypg).

In 2019, the Cougars finished 7-6 with a Hawaii Bowl berth. During the team’s final five regular-season games BYU boasted the nation’s No. 8 offense (520.6 ypg), No. 13 passing offense (323.0 ypg) and No. 34 rushing offense (197.6 ypg). The Cougars capped the season with 505 yards of total offense in the Hawai’i Bowl, including 274 through the air and 231 on the ground. The offensive line finished the season ranked No. 12 overall as a unit by Pro Football Focus.

Mateos spent two seasons (2017-18) as the offensive line coach at Texas State where he had an All-Sun Belt performer in each of his two years. Prior to his stint with the Bobcats, Mateos served as the tight ends at LSU in 2016 after starting the season as an offensive line graduate assistant under Baylor offensive coordinator Jeff Grimes. Mateos was tabbed to lead the tight ends coach by Ed Orgeron midway through the 2016 season and helped lead the Tigers to a victory over Louisville in the Citrus Bowl.

He began his coaching career as an assistant offensive line coach at Southwest Baptist in 2011 before serving a one-year stint in 2012 as the offensive line coach and recruiting coordinator at Hutchinson Community College.

A two-year starter at Southwest Baptist, Mateos was the starting center and team captain during the 2009 and 2010 seasons. He earned his bachelor’s degree in public relations at Southwest Baptist in 2011 and a master’s degree from Arkansas in 2015.

Mateos is married to the former Gillian Chavez and the couple have two daughters, Isabel and Camila.

The Mateos File
College: Southwest Baptist, 2011 B.S. Public Relations;
Arkansas, 2015 M.A. Human Resources and Development
Family: Wife – Gillian; Daughters – Isabel and Camila

Coaching Experience
2011 Southwest Baptist (Assistant OL)
2012 Hutchinson CC (OL/Recruiting Coordinator)
2013-15 Arkansas (Graduate Assistant)
2016 LSU (Graduate Assistant/TEs)
2017-18 Texas State (Offensive Line)
2019-20 BYU (Offensive Line)
2021-23 Baylor (Offensive Line)
2024-pres. Arkansas (Offensive Line)

Playing Experience
2009-10 Southwest Baptist