Bilal Marshall returned to his alma mater prior to the 2025 season, joining Odom’s staff as an offensive analyst that worked with the wide receivers.
Prior to coming back to Purdue, Marshall spent two seasons as West Virginia’s wide receivers coach. In 2023, the Mountaineers had two players ranked in the nation Top 16 in yards per reception (Hudson Clement – third with 21.82 yards per reception and Devin Carter – 16th with 18.56 yards per reception). Clement led the team with 177 receiving yards and three touchdowns in his first career start against Duquesne, joining Tavon Austin and Stedman Bailey as the only Mountaineers to reach 175 receiving yards and three receiving touchdowns in one game. West Virginia averaged 15.02 passing yards per completion, ranking No. 2 in the Big 12 and No. 3 among Power 5 schools.
Marshall rejoined the Mountaineer Football coaching staff after serving as the wide receivers coach at VMI in 2022. While at VMI, his leading receiver, Chance Knox, had 58 catches for 535 yards and two touchdowns. He mentored Isaiah Lemmond, who earned All-Southern Conference Freshman honors after finishing second on the team with 29 catches for 453 receiving yards and a touchdown. Lemmond recorded two or more catches in the last six games, including six against No. 9 Chattanooga, Furman and No. 10 Samford.
Prior to VMI, Marshall was an offensive graduate assistant at West Virginia (2020-21), working with the wide receivers. In 2021, the Mountaineers had four receivers with 30 or more receptions, three with more than 500 yards receiving and four with multiple touchdowns. Two of his receivers, Winston Wright Jr. and Bryce Ford-Wheaton, were named All-Big 12 Honorable Mention performers.
In 2020, WVU had three receivers with 30 or more catches, three with 400 or more yards and five with multiple touchdowns. Wright earned All-Big 12 Second Team honors after collecting a team-high 47 receptions for 453 yards and two touchdowns.
Marshall began his coaching career at Champagnat High School in Miami, Florida, where he was the offensive coordinator and wide receivers coach for a team that won the Class 2A State Championship in 2019.
In 2017, Marshall played in the Canadian Football League for the Ottawa Red Blacks. He was a receiver for Purdue from 2012-16 and helped the Boilermakers reach the Heart of Dallas Bowl in 2012. As a senior, Marshall was the team’s second-leading receiver with 40 catches for 477 yards and three touchdowns.
Marshall, a native of Miami Gardens, Florida, earned his bachelor’s degree from Purdue in 2016 in organizational leadership and his master’s degree in communications studies from West Virginia in 2021.
Marshall, and his wife, Alexa, have a son, Ryder.