Robert Saleh has made two new additions to his coaching staff.
According to the NFL Network’s Peter Schrager, Saleh has hired Taylor Embree to be his running backs coach and Miles Austin to be his wide receivers coach. The news comes a day after four other hires were reported.
With the hirings of Embree and Austin, Saleh now has six offensive assistant coaches. He has yet to hire an assistant on the defensive side of the ball.
Embree got started in coaching in 2012 when he was hired as an offensive graduate assistant for UNLV. In 2013, he moved onto UCLA, where he was a defensive graduate assistant for a year before moving back to an offensive graduate assistant for the next two years.
Embree made his jump to the NFL with the Chiefs in 2016 as a defensive assistant. He did that for a season until the 49ers hired him as an offensive quality control coach in 2017. This past season, Embree was the tight ends coach at the University of Colorado.
Austin is coming over from San Francisco, where he was the offensive quality control coach in 2019. Prior to becoming a coach, Austin was a pro and college scouting intern with the Dallas Cowboys.
Austin had a 10-year playing career in the NFL with three teams, including the Cowboys, Browns and Eagles. He had 361 catches for 5,273 yards 37 touchdowns for his career.