Rutgers promotes Luke Carrezola to Defensive Tackles coach
Rutgers Football has promoted assistant defensive line coach Luke Carrezola to Defensive Tackles ahead of spring ball, sources tell The Knight Report.
Carrezola was the Scarlet Knights assistant defensive line coach for the past two seasons, but will now play an even bigger role on the staff this year.
As far as his promotion to defensive tackles coach goes, the move makes a whole lot of sense since he is very familiar with new defensive line coach Dennis Dottin-Carter from their time together at UConn. Carrezola played defensive end for the Huskies from 2014-17, where he was a three year starter for the Huskies.
Dottin-Carter took over the defensive line room during Carrezola’s last season in Storrs back in 2017 and brought him back on as a graduate assistant for the Huskies from 2019-21. Carrezola remained with the program during the transition to Jim Mora’s new regime, serving as one of the few holdovers and earning a promotion to defensive analyst.
After one season in that role, Carrezola moved on to New Hampshire, where he served as the Wildcats’ defensive line coach in 2023 before ultimately joining the Scarlet Knights’ staff.
While Carrezola did not play his collegiate football at Rutgers, the program holds some family ties. His older brother, Paul Carrezola, was a tight end for the Scarlet Knights from 2009-12 under current head coach Greg Schiano.
As for former defensive tackles coach Charlie Noonan, he will remain on staff, but in a new role that is still to be determined according to sources. With the linebackers coach job still opened, don’t be shocked to see him go back to working with that unit in some capacity since has past experience working with linebackers as the assistant linebackers coach from 2022-24 at Rutgers and full time linebackers coach at Lehigh back in 2019.
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