By K-State Athletics
Brian Lepak, who has had a hand in K-State’s offensive success since his arrival in 2021, will remain at Kansas State and move back to coaching the Wildcat tight ends, head coach Collin Klein announced Monday.
Lepak (pronounced luh-PACK) arrived in Manhattan in 2021 as a Senior Offensive Quality Control Coach and also tutored the Wildcat offensive line in 2025, while he spent the 2022 through 2024 seasons coaching the K-State tight ends.
“I am excited to continue to represent Kansas State University under Coach Klein’s leadership,” said Lepak. “I look forward to implementing Coach Klein’s vision and build on the tradition of this program.”
Lepak and Klein worked together on staff for three seasons, which included K-State’s 2022 Big 12 Championship campaign in 2022.
“Brian has worked tirelessly for this program since he has been here,” Klein said. “He is detailed, caring, competitive and one of the smartest coaches I have worked with at K-State. I am excited to have him continue to develop our tight ends.”
Lepak has found quick success during his first four years as a full-time coach for the Wildcats, tutoring tight end Ben Sinnott to All-Big 12 First Team accolades in both 2022 and 2023, while the Wildcats had two tight ends pick up All-Big 12 honors in 2024 in Garrett Oakley (second team) and Will Swanson (honorable mention). It was the first time since 1997 that the Wildcats had a pair of All-Big 12 tight ends in the same season, while Oakley’s second-team designation marked the first time in the Big 12 era that K-State had a first- or second-team all-conference tight end in three straight seasons.
In 2024, Lepak’s tight end unit combined for a nation-leading 13 touchdown receptions. Five of those came from Oakley, which tied for the second most in school history by a tight end and third by any sophomore. Oakley went on to break the school record for career receiving touchdowns by a tight end during the 2025 season (13), while he ranks fourth in catches (71) and fifth in yards (779).
Over his first two seasons tutoring the K-State tight ends, Lepak coached Sinnott to top-10 rankings nationally among the position group in receiving yards (third), receptions (fourth) and receiving touchdowns (tied for eighth). Sinnott left K-State by tying for the most career receiving touchdowns by a tight end (10) in addition to ranking third among the position in receptions (82) and fourth in receiving yards (1,138).
Under Lepak’s leadership, Sinnott had a banner year as a junior in 2023 as he earned Honorable Mention All-America honors from Phil Steele and was a semifinalist for the John Mackey Award, the first player in school history to be named a semifinalist for the award that is presented annually to the nation’s top tight end. All Sinnott did was record the most single-season receptions (49), receiving yards (676) and receiving touchdowns (6) by a tight end in school history, marks that each ranked in the top five nationally among the position group. Sinnott was selected in the second round of the 2024 NFL Draft – No. 53 overall – by the Washington Commanders, the highest-drafted tight end in school history.
In Lepak’s first season coaching the tight ends, Sinnott averaged 14.4 yards per catch to rank fourth nationally as he earned his first All-Big 12 honor. The K-State tight ends helped the Wildcats win the 2022 Big 12 title thanks to an offensive unit that ranked in the top 10 in school history in 11 categories, including ranking second in offensive yards (5,863) and plays (958), fourth in rushing yards (2,916) and fifth in yards per game (418.8).
While tutoring the offensive line in 2025, Lepak coached center Sam Hecht to All-Big 12 First Team honors in addition to receiving votes for the Big 12 Offensive Lineman of the Year award, while tackle John Pastore was a second-team selection. Under Lepak’s guidance, the offensive line helped K-State rank fifth in school history by averaging 5.09 yards per carry, which included a school-record three rushes of at least 75 yards. One of those was an 80-yard rush at Utah during a school-record 472-yard rushing output, bettering a school record that had stood for 71 years.
During the game against the Utes, the Lepak’s unit blocked for a school record 293 rushing yards by Joe Jackson, bettering Darren Sproles’ mark set in 2004. In terms of pass protection, the Wildcats finished the 2025 season ranked 11th nationally in sacks allowed per game (1.08).
Lepak began his coaching career as an offensive graduate assistant at Indiana from 2014 through 2016, while he held the same position at Oklahoma from 2017 through 2019. He coached the spring of 2021 at Southern as the running game coordinator and offensive line coach before his first season in Manhattan in the fall of 2021.
A native of Claremore, Oklahoma, Lepak was an offensive lineman for two seasons at Colorado State before transferring to Oklahoma where he spent three years, including the 2010 Big 12 Championship season, while he was an Academic All-American that year.
After completing his playing career, Lepak was awarded the Dr. Prentice Gautt Postgraduate Scholar Award and attended law school at the University of Oklahoma College of Law where he was a member of the Oklahoma Law Review. He graduated in 2014 and was admitted to the Oklahoma Bar Association the same year. In addition to his law degree, he has dual degrees in Accounting and Finance from the OU Price College of Business where he was the Outstanding Senior in Accounting.
Lepak and his wife, Colleen, have four children, Thomas, Penelope, Luke and Margaret.
