Colorado’s receivers room appears to have changed hands just as fall camp began. Jason Phillips was no longer listed in Colorado’s official staff directory, and he was not present when the football staff was introduced to the team at the program’s first fall camp meeting.
That matters now because Colorado had been at fall camp for less than 24 hours when the shift surfaced, leaving little time for the staff to settle before practice and meetings resumed. Rashad Davis introduced himself as “receivers coach” during the team meeting, making him the clearest sign of who was working with the wideouts as the camp opened.
The timing fits with what had already been building in the spring. Davis had talked then about taking on a more hands-on role with the wideouts, saying his job was shifting away from energy and communication and toward more direct development on and off the field. New coordinator Brennan Marion is also installing a Go-Go system that puts a premium on blocking and physical play from the receiver group, a demand that changes what the coach in that room has to emphasize every day.
Phillips had put that philosophy plainly in the spring. He said blocking was a “want to,” added that Colorado did not do any drills for it, and said the work was “internal.” Those comments now read like the clearest marker of how the room was being coached before the camp change became visible.
There is still one part of the story Colorado has not answered publicly. An earlier university report said Phillips stepped away because of a family issue, but Deion Sanders later said on social media that Phillips is retiring. Those explanations do not sit neatly together, and the program has not formally confirmed Phillips’ departure or said whether Davis is the permanent replacement.
After practice No. 1, the switch in the receiver coach was understood to be a natural parting, which suggests Colorado has already moved on even if the paperwork has not fully caught up. The next update that matters is not whether the change happened — it already has — but whether Colorado will finally say so in public and make clear who owns the receivers room from here.
