Sean Ryan is in his second season as the Giants’ wide receivers coach. Prior to assuming that position he spent three years as the team’s offensive quality control coach.
The wide receivers were very productive in their first season under Ryan. Second-year pro Hakeem Nicks led the Giants with 79 receptions for 1,052 yards and 11 touchdowns, despite missing three games because of injury. The 79 receptions left Nicks seventh in the NFC and tied for 12th in the NFL. They also tied for the third-highest total in Giants history. Nicks was the 10th player (and ninth wide receiver) in Giants history with 1,000 receiving yards in a season. His 11 touchdown receptions tied Del Shofner (1962) for the third-highest total in Giants history. Mario Manningham added nine touchdown catches as he and Nicks became the first pair of Giants with at least nine touchdown catches since 1967, when Homer Jones had a franchise-record 13 and Aaron Thomas had nine.
Sean Ryan is in his second season as the Giants’ wide receivers coach. Prior to assuming that position he spent three years as the team’s offensive quality control coach.
The wide receivers were very productive in their first season under Ryan. Second-year pro Hakeem Nicks led the Giants with 79 receptions for 1,052 yards and 11 touchdowns, despite missing three games because of injury. The 79 receptions left Nicks seventh in the NFC and tied for 12th in the NFL. They also tied for the third-highest total in Giants history. Nicks was the 10th player (and ninth wide receiver) in Giants history with 1,000 receiving yards in a season. His 11 touchdown receptions tied Del Shofner (1962) for the third-highest total in Giants history. Mario Manningham added nine touchdown catches as he and Nicks became the first pair of Giants with at least nine touchdown catches since 1967, when Homer Jones had a franchise-record 13 and Aaron Thomas had nine.
Manningham was second on the team with 60 catches for 944 yards and those nine scores. In the final two games, he caught Eli Manning touchdown passes of 85 and 92 yards that were two of the nine longest pass plays in the 86-year history of the Giants. Manningham was one of just two NFL receivers to score on two receptions of at least 85 yards in 2010. Manningham had seven touchdown receptions of 25 or more yards, which placed him second in the league behind Pittsburgh’s Mike Wallace, who had nine.
Steve Smith, who set a Giants record with 107 receptions in 2009, played in only nine games last year because of injuries and finished third on the team with 48 receptions for 529 yards and three scores.
Ryan came to the Giants from Harvard University, where he spent the 2006 season as recruiting coordinator, running backs coach and head coach of the junior varsity.
Prior to his tenure at Harvard, Ryan was as an assistant coach at Columbia University for three seasons. In 2003 and 2004, Ryan was the running backs coach and special teams coordinator. The following season, Ryan coached the quarterbacks.
Before coaching at Columbia, Ryan spent two years as a graduate assistant at Boston College, where he worked primarily with the wide receivers. The Eagles won bowl games in each of those seasons, beating Georgia in the 2001 Music City Bowl and Toledo in the 2002 Motor City Bowl.
Ryan was the running backs coach at Colgate in 2000, a graduate assistant at the University at Albany (where the Giants hold training camp) in 1998-99 and the quarterbacks coach at Siena for a season.
Ryan played defensive back and outside linebacker at Hamilton College, where he graduated in 1994 with a degree in American studies. He also earned a master’s degree in higher education administration from Albany.
A native of Hudson Falls, N.Y. – north of Albany - Ryan was a standout football, basketball and baseball player at Hudson Falls High School.
