Wisconsin on Wednesday announced the hiring of Alvis Whitted who will replace Ted Gilmore as the Badgers wide receiver coach.
Gilmore was hired away by former Badger player now the head coach at Michigan State Mel Tucker to be the position coach for the Spartans tight ends in February.
Whitted doesn’t have to move far to Madison as he served as the Green Bay Packers wide receiver coach during the 2019 season.
Prior to coaching the Packers, he was the wide receivers coach for Colorado State from 2012 to 2018. During his time with the Rams, he coached Rashard Higgins and Michael Gallup as both players were finalists for the Biletnikoff Award in 2014 and 2017 respectively.
Whitted was a wide receiver himself as he played for North Carolina State before being drafted by the Jacksonville Jaguars in the seventh round in the 1998 NFL Draft. Whitted played nine seasons in the NFL with the Jaguars and for the Oakland Raiders as he was a part of the Raiders Super Bowl XXXVII team, which lost to the Tampa Bay Buccanneers.
Whitted first job in coaching was with Millsaps College in 2010 and after spending a year at Millsaps college he became the Offensive quality controls coach at UCLA in 2011 before being named the wide receiver coach at Colorado State in 2012.
Whitted will take over an experienced wide receiver room as between Kendric Pryor, Danny Davis, Jack Dunn, and Adam Krumholz the four wide receivers have all played in at least 30 career games and have started a combined 36 games.
Wisconsin will begin spring practice on March 10th.