After spending the 2025 season with the Tigers in a volunteer capacity, Lonnie Galloway is in his first season as a senior offensive assistant at Clemson in 2026.
Galloway is a veteran of nearly 30 seasons as a college assistant. Fourteen eventual NFL players are among his protégés, including nine wide receivers that were selected across the 2012-24 NFL Drafts.
Prior to joining Clemson, Galloway served as assistant head coach, passing game coordinator and wide receivers coach at North Carolina from 2019-24, where he coached multiple All-ACC performers and NFL Draft selections, including Biletnikoff semifinalists Josh Downs and Dyami Brown.
Galloway spent three seasons as co-offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach at Louisville from 2016-18, helping guide one of the nation’s top offenses alongside Heisman Trophy winner Lamar Jackson. Galloway’s career also includes stints at West Virginia (2008-10, 2013-15), Wake Forest (2011-12), Appalachian State (2005-07), East Carolina (2003-04) and Elon (1996-2002). At Appalachian State, he helped the Mountaineers win three consecutive FCS National Championships from 2005-07.
Galloway was a four-year letterman at quarterback at Western Carolina, earning first-team All-Southern Conference honors in 1993. He later was inducted into the Western Carolina Hall of Fame in 2015.
A native of Eden, N.C., Galloway earned his bachelor’s degree from Western Carolina in 1994. He and his wife, Winslow, have three children: Anna, Hayes and Griffith. Hayes is an offensive lineman on Clemson’s 2026 squad.