Peyton Pelluer - Football Coach

Peyton Pelluer

Title:
Defensive Graduate Assistant/Linebackers
Email:
football@usc.edu
Phone:
(213) 740-4204

Peyton Pelluer enters his second season as a graduate assistant working with the defense. He joined the USC staff in January of 2022.

He spent the previous 2 seasons (2020-21) as a volunteer assistant at Mississippi State.  The Bulldogs played in the 2020 Armed Forces Bowl and 2021 Liberty Bowl.

He was a linebacker at Washington State for 6 seasons (2013-18), where he appeared in more games (54) than any player in program history (with 47 starts).  He had 352 career tackles, including 35 for losses, 6.5 sacks, 5 forced fumbles, 5 fumble recoveries and 2 interceptions.  In 2018, he was Defensive MVP of the Alamo Bowl.  He was an Academic All-District first team choice in 2015 and 2016. While sidelined most of 2017 with an injury, he helped tutor the WSU linebackers as a student coach.

He earned his bachelor’s degree in history from Washington State in 2018.

He was an All-State first teamer at 2-time state champion Skyline High in Sammamish (Wash.).

His father, Scott, was a linebacker at Washington State (1977-80) and with the New Orleans Saints (1981-86), then was an assistant coach at Boise State (1986-92), Northern Arizona (1993-95), Washington (1996-98, 2003-04), Skyline High (2000) and Arizona (2001-02).  His brother, Tyler, was a linebacker at Montana (2005-08), and another brother, Cooper, was a linebacker and fullback at Washington (2010-12).  His great grandfather, Carl Gustafson, was a flanker at Washington State (1925-27).  His grandfather, Arnie, was an end at Washington State (1953-55) and then coached track at Yakima Valley College, Whitworth and Eastern Washington.  His uncle, Steve, was a quarterback at Washington (1981-83) and with the Dallas Cowboys (1984-88), Kansas City Chiefs (1989-91), Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1995) and Frankfurt Galaxy (1996-97).  Another uncle, Arnie, was a linebacker at Stanford (1985-89).  His brother-in-law is Tosh Lupoi, who played defensive line at California (2000-05) and has been an assistant coach at California (2008-11), Washington (2012-13), Alabama (2014-18), Cleveland Browns (2019), Atlanta Falcons (2020), Jacksonville Jaguars (2021) and Oregon (2022).