Jim Zorn, was born in Whittier, CA May 10, 1953 and has been working his way to the head coaching position at the Washington Redskins since graduating high school. Zorn (70-71) attended Cerritos Junior College and played football on the same gridiron where years earlier the man he would replace as head coach of the Washington Redskins also played, Joe Gibbs (59-60). After leaving Cerritos and transferring to Cal Poly-Pomona the southpaw quarterback was signed by the emerging football expansion team the Seattle Seahawks. Zorn and the Seahawks debuted in the 1976 NFL season.
Jim Zorn impressed Seahawk fans with his abilities for nine years during his inaugural season (1976) he won Rookie of the Year honors, was inducted into the Seahawk Ring of Honor in 1991. He stayed with the Seahawks until the end of 1984 season as a backup quarterback. In 1985, he played with Green Bay, and 1986 took him to CFL’s Winnipeg’s Blue Bombers. In 1987, he played a final game as a replacement player for the Tampa Bay’s Buccaneers.
He then returned to college football, first at Boise State as a quarterback’s coach from 1988-91, then in Utah State from 1992-94 as offensive coordinator, in University of Minnesota as quarterback’s coach 1995-96, back to the Seahawks as an offensive assistant 1997, and finally the Detroit Lion’s as a quarterback’s coach 1998-2000. He returned to the Seahawks in 2001 as quarterback's coach where he stayed until 2007. In 2008, Redskin’s owner Dan Snyder hired Zorn as offensive coordinator, two weeks later, Snyder named Jim Zorn Head Coach after Joe Gibbs retired from the position. Zorn told the press “I’ve always dreamed of being a head coach with a franchise rich in tradition like the Redskins.”
