Football

Wesley Satterfield hails from the legendary Satterfield coaching family out of Trousdale County, but the younger Satterfield has made quite a name for himself in his career, spending time at North Carolina for three seasons, two years at Ohio State, two seasons at Chattanooga, two years at Southeastern Louisiana, three seasons at Austin Peay, then three more at Richmond.

His teams have gone to three bowl games and won two conference championships. Three of his players have gone on to successful NFL careers and two more into the Canadian Football League.

A quarterback, defensive back, punter and kicker for Clint Satterfield at Trousdale County High from 1999 to 2002, the younger Satterfield went on to a four-year playing career at Sewanee – the University of the South – from 2003 to 2006, earning Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year and first-team all-SCAC at quarterback.

After graduation, he joined Butch Davis’ staff at North Carolina, assisting offensive coordinator John Shoop with the quarterbacks between 2007 and 2010. He continued his graduate assistant efforts, joining Jim Tressel and Luke Fickell’s staffs at Ohio State from 2010 to 2012 as an offensive/special teams GA.

With the Buckeyes, Satterfield coached the kickers, punters and long snappers, guiding Devin Barclay to a second-team All-Big Ten honor and long snapper Jake McQuaide to getting signed by the St. Louis Rams, where he has become a Pro Bowl long snapper.

In 2012, Satterfield joined Russ Huesman’s staff at Chattanooga, coaching tight ends and H-backs. Under his watch, tight end Faysal Shafaat was a third-team All-American and second-team All-Southern Conference selection. The following season, Satterfield oversaw the running backs and H-backs, guiding freshman rusher Derrick Craine to a SoCon All-Freshman Team pick.

Satterfield joined Ron Roberts staff at Southeastern Louisiana coaching the quarterbacks and serving as the team’s run game coordination. While there, quarterback Bryan Bennett was named the Southland Conference Offensive Player of the Year and Walter Payton Award finalist. The school led the Southland in points per game (47.3), touchdowns (50), average yards per play (7.1), pass efficiency (163.6), yards per pass (9.7), yards per completion (17.4), rushing touchdowns (32) and fewest sacks allowed (four). They also set single-game rushing yards (484), most points scored vs. a Southland opponent (76), yards in a single game (806) and most rushing touchdowns in a single game (seven, twice).

When Will Healy took over the reins at Austin Peay, Satterfield was his choice to lead the Governors’ offensive efforts. In 2016, APSU put together the biggest offensive turnaround in Division I FCS, going from 12.3 points per game in 2015 to 24.4 in 2016.

It didn’t stop there – in 2017, the Govs led the OVC in total offense and rushing yards (sixth in the FCS), while setting school records in total offense, points, yards per game, yards per play, touchdowns, rushing touchdowns, rushing yards and yards per rush as APSU went 8-4 and winning the most games in school history after going 1-47 in the seasons before. The Govs also claimed the Sergeant York Trophy that season.

Satterfield helped develop quarterback Jeremiah Oatsvall, who had a tremendous career in Clarksville before transferring to Memphis, then to Cookeville to play his graduate transfer season with the Golden Eagles this fall as the duo is reunited.  Oatsvall was named a first-team FCS Freshman All-American by HERO Sports and was the OVC Freshman of the Year, a second-team All-OVC selection and on the All-Newcomer team in his first campaign.