Alabama high school football coach leaves for job with NFL's Denver Broncos

One of the newest head coaches in Alabama high school football is leaving for another job less than three months after being hired.

Tuscaloosa County announced on Wednesday that Brian Niedermeyer, who was promoted from defensive coordinator in December, was leaving the program. It was later reported by 247Sports’ Matt Zenitz that Niedermeyer is taking a job as a defensive assistant coach with the Denver Broncos.

He served as the team’s DC for one season in 2024 before ascending to replace Miles Holcomb, who resigned in November following a 1-9 season. Before his lone year in Tuscaloosa, Niedermeyer was a high school assistant in Florida, serving as an assistant coach at powerhouse St. Thomas Aquinas and as the defensive coordinator at Bradenton’s IMG Academy.

Prior to that, he was on staff at Tennessee as the Vols’ inside linebackers coach in 2020 and tight ends coach from 2018-19. That followed stints on Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama from 2016-17 and a year at Georgia in 2015.

However, he was given a show-cause by the NCAA related to recruiting violations during his time in Knoxville. In July 2022, the NCAA notified Tennessee of 18 potential Level I violations. The allegations included providing impermissible cash, gifts and benefits worth about $60,000 to football recruits and their families under Pruitt. The notice of allegations says at least a dozen members of Pruitt’s staff were involved in more than 200 individual violations over a two-year period.

Niedermeyer, along with outside linebackers coach Shelton Felton, director of player personnel Drew Hughes and student assistant Michael Magness, were given show-cause penalties ranging between three and five years.

Tuscaloosa County is coming off its second 1-9 season in the past four years and has had just one year above .500 since 2014.