A former Auburn standout has joined [autotag]Charles Kelly[/autotag]’s coaching staff at Jacksonville State.
Linebackers coach [autotag]Deshaun Davis[/autotag], who spent four seasons on the Plains playing the position he now coaches, announced he would be making the move to become a Gamecock on Thursday.
After an Auburn career in which Davis accumulated 256 total tackles and 7 sacks, the 29-year-old spent parts of two seasons in the NFL before a stint in the CFL with the Saskatchewan Roughriders in 2020. His playing career ended, in large part due to the cancellations surrounding the COVID-19 epidemic, that same season.
The former Tiger stayed in football however, joining his head coach [autotag]Gus Malzahn[/autotag] as a graduate assistant with UCF before moving on to coach linebackers at North Alabama. His Auburn teammate, [autotag]Kerryon Johnson[/autotag], would later join the same staff as the Director of Player Development in 2023.
Davis now will take on his first major role coaching an FBS program after two seasons helping the Lions navigate the FCS. We’ll see if him and Kelly can help further develop a Jacksonville State program that narrowly lost to MAC champion Ohio in the StaffDNA Cure Bowl just a few weeks ago.
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