After starting his career at Western Michigan as a graduate assistant in Lance Taylor's program, Will Ahrens was eventually elevated to an offensive analyst role and helped WMU with its break-through, 10-win 2025 season under Taylor that culminated with a Mid-American Conference Championship and Myrtle Beach Bowl victory.
Now, Ahrens is off to help Taylor's former offensive coordinator and one of college football's fastest-rising young head coaches.
He's getting his own room in the process as well.
Sources tell FootballScoop that Ahrens is joining the staff of Billy Cosh at Stony Brook, the Football Championship Subdivision program that Cosh has quickly turned around.
Ahrens will serve as Cosh's offensive line coach, commanding a position group for the first time. It's been a marked ascent for Ahrens, who arrived at Western Michigan as understudy to Trever Mendelson.
A former Marshall offensive lineman who's been on Dave Clawson's Wake Forest staff and also logged multiple seasons at Notre Dame, Mendelson now is in the NFL with the Playoffs-bound Jacksonville Jaguars.
At Stony Brook, Ahrens transitions to work under Cosh -- who in two years as a head coach at Stony Brook has amassed 14 wins. That's one more victory than the Stony Brook program had in five seasons combined prior to the arrival of Cosh.
Cosh, honored as an FCS Coach of the Year in 2024 for the program's watershed eight-win season, is set to lead Stony Brook into his third season on Aug. 27, 2026, when the SeaWolves play a Thursday night, Week 0 game at Delaware State.