Sources: Bama includes Buffalo’s Linguist as a co-DC

Adam Rittenberg Close Adam Rittenberg ESPN Senior Citizen Writer College football reporter. Joined ESPN.com in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.Chris Low Close

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ESPN Senior Writer College football press reporter Signed up with ESPN.com in 2007 Graduate of the University of Tennessee Jan 16, 2024, 06:30 PM ET Kalen DeBoer is including a second sitting FBS

• head coach to his Alabama coaching staff, with Buffalo’s Maurice Linguist consenting to take a job on the Crimson Tide’s defensive personnel, sources told ESPN on Tuesday.Linguist will be Alabama’s co-defensive coordinator and likewise will coach protective backs, a source said.Having just finished his 3rd season as Buffalo’s coach, Linguist will have the ability to hire extensive experience coaching defensive backs. He coached the Dallas Cowboys’cornerbacks in 2020, and he has dealt with college secondaries at nine different programs.Prior to landing the Buffalo head task, Linguist served

  briefly as Michigan’s co-defensive planner and defensive backs coach. In 2015, he was a top prospect for the Cincinnati head-coaching job.Editor’s Picks 2 Associated On Monday, DeBoer hired South Alabama head coach Kane Wommack to be his defensive coordinator.Before relocating to the NFL, Linguist coached cornerbacks at Texas A&M(2018-19), protective backs at Minnesota( 2017 ), safeties at Mississippi State(2016)and protective backs at Iowa State(2014-15 ). Linguist is likewise highly considered as a recruiter.DeBoer, worked with last week to change Nick Saban at Alabama,

  is continuing to

  assemble his personnel with a mix of coaches from his Washington staff and Saban’s old staff at Alabama while likewise going out and getting Wommack and Linguist, both of whom were head coaches for the past three seasons.Linguist, 39, was 14-23 general as Buffalo’s head coach. He played safety at Baylor.ESPN College Football Senior Author Pete Thamel contributed to this report.