On3’s 2022 rising star personnel and recruiting staffers you need to know
It should come as no surprise that the top three teams in the preseason polls – Alabama, Ohio State and Georgia – have all had recruiting classes that ranked in the top five nationally each of the past three recruiting cycles.
While coaching is important, so is acquiring top-tier talent, a process that involves a lot more than just Nick Saban, Ryan Day and Kirby Smart.
For the latest in our summer series on rising star college football coaches and staffers, we take a look at the personnel and recruiting space. These are behind-the-scenes folks with responsibilities such as scouting prospects, developing recruiting strategy, communicating with players and their families, coordinating recruiting trips for coaches and organizing and hosting on-campus recruiting events. There’s plenty more, too.
Based on feedback gathered from coaches and personnel officials around the country, here are 65 rising star personnel and recruiting staffers you need to know heading into the 2022 season. They’re listed alphabetically.
Jordan Arcement, LSU
Position: Recruiting specialist
+ Joined Brian Kelly’s staff earlier this year
+ Louisiana native who graduated from Nicholls State
+ Worked at Virginia for three seasons (2018-20), progressing from scout to senior scout and director of recruiting communications
Bella Baker, Vanderbilt
Position: On-campus recruiting coordinator
+ Started working with Vanderbilt’s football team last year after two years with the school’s National Commodore Club as a development and alumni relations assistant
+ Previously worked at Alabama. Served as a student recruiting and operations assistant, then as a recruiting and operations graduate assistant in 2018 and 2019
Brooks Barrineau, Georgia Tech
Position: Associate director of player personnel
+ Was promoted to associate director of player personnel in May
+ Spent the previous 15 months with the Yellow Jackets as a player personnel intern
+ Previously worked at Clemson as a student assistant with the team’s recruiting department
JR Belton, LSU
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Was retained from previous LSU staff
+ Transitioned to director of returning after serving as the Tigers’ director of scouting last year
+ Worked as a regional scout at Virginia for a year before joining staff at LSU
+ Former star quarterback at West Monroe (La.) High. Played at Louisiana Tech
+ Multiple coaches said they believe Belton will be an athletic director at some point in the future
Daniel Bernstein, North Carolina
Position: Assistant director of player personnel
+ Hired in July 2021
+ Previously spent two seasons as a recruiting assistant at Texas after a stint with the Cleveland Browns in the team’s Fan Experience & Special Events department
Pat Biondo, Oregon
Position: Director of recruiting strategy
+ Joined the Oregon staff after working with new Ducks chief of staff Marshall Malchow at Texas A&M the past three seasons
+ Was A&M’s senior assistant of recruiting and operations
+ Previously spent nine years on the staff of West Virginia’s women’s basketball team. Served as a video coordinator (2010-12), special assistant to the head coach (2012-15) and director of basketball operations (2015-19)
James Blanchard, Texas Tech
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Joey McGuire’s first hire at Texas Tech
+ Worked with McGuire at Baylor as the Bears’ assistant AD for scouting
+ Originally joined Baylor’s staff as Matt Rhule’s director of recruiting, then returned to the Bears under Dave Aranda after a year working under Rhule with the Carolina Panthers
+ Helped Texas Tech finish with the No. 43 class in the 2022 On3 Consensus Rankings, the Red Raiders’ highest-ranked class since 2016
+ A leading figure behind the scenes for Tech’s 2023 class, currently ranked 22nd in the On3 Consensus Rankings
Kelvin Bolden, Ole Miss
Position: Coordinator of recruiting strategy
+ Former Southern Miss wide receiver; had 104 catches and 13 TDs in two seasons for the Golden Eagles
+ Left job as director of recruiting relations and a wide receivers assistant at UCF to join the staff at Ole Miss
+ Worked as an assistant director of player personnel at Florida last season after a year as wide receivers coach at Southern Miss
Chad Bowden, Notre Dame
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Was promoted to director of recruiting from director of defensive recruiting after Marcus Freeman became the Fighting Irish coach
+ Has been with Freeman since 2017, working with him at Cincinnati before following him to Notre Dame last year, when Freeman was hired as Notre Dame’s defensive coordinator
+ Progressed to director of recruiting at Cincinnati after beginning with the Bearcats as an intern
+ Has been a driving force behind Notre Dame classes that rank No. 5 in the the 2023 On3 Consensus Rankings and No. 2 in the 2024 rankings
+ Son of former Cincinnati Reds and Washington Nationals vice president and general manager Jim Bowden
Alex Brown, SMU
Position: Director of scouting
+ Was hired in January after three seasons as director of recruiting at Rice
+ Previously spent four seasons at Houston, including as recruiting coordinator and assistant director of player personnel
Angelia Brummett, Tennessee
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Returned to Tennessee as part of Josh Heupel’s staff after working in the Vols’ recruiting office as a student at Tennessee
+ Was Heupel’s director of on-campus recruiting at UCF in 2019 and ’20
Tyler Clements, Clemson
Position: Director of recruiting strategy
+ In his first year in this role and his sixth as a leader for the Tigers’ on-campus recruiting
+ Has advanced to his current position after beginning with Clemson as an intern in 2015
+ Son of Clemson president Jim Clements
Alex Collins, Ole Miss
Position: Assistant AD for recruiting operations
+ Followed Lane Kiffin to Ole Miss after working for him at FAU
+ Promoted to his current role after originally joining Ole Miss as a senior player personnel analyst
+ Served as director of player personnel for Kiffin’s 2019 FAU team that won the Conference USA championship
+ Was Nevada’s director of player personnel in 2018 after six years on the staff at USC
David Cooper, Georgia
Position: Director of recruiting relations
+ Joined the Georgia staff in June 2021 after working as a recruiting coordinator at Louisville
+ Was part of Florida’s staff in 2019 and ’20
+ Also has worked at Texas A&M as a defensive graduate assistant and The Citadel as an analyst
+ Former starting linebacker at Indiana; won the Hoosiers’ Defensive Teammate of the Year award as a senior in 2014
Darrius Darden-Box, Vanderbilt
Position: Associate director of high school scouting
+ Was retained by Clark Lea after three seasons working at Vanderbilt under Derek Mason
+ In his first year in current role
+ Moved to a personnel role last year after serving as an offensive analyst from 2018-20
Tyler Dean, Oregon
Position: Director of scouting
+ Joined the Oregon staff after working under new Ducks chief of staff Marshall Malchow at Texas A&M
+ A leading behind-the-scenes contributor to an Oregon 2023 class currently ranks second in the Pac-12 and 14th nationally
Erin Dunston, Ohio State
Position: Director of on-campus recruiting
+ Entering her second season at Ohio State
+ Previously was director of on-campus recruiting at Kansas and an athletics administration associate at Purdue
+ Spent two years as a football operations graduate assistant at LSU before heading to Purdue. Completed her master’s at LSU in kinesiology with a concentration in pedagogy (the method and practice of teaching) and psychological sciences after earning a bachelor’s degree at Delaware
Taylor Edwards, South Carolina
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Entering his second year at South Carolina after two years as director of recruiting operations at Maryland
+ Was a key part of the Gamecocks adding one of the nation’s top transfer classes this offseason, a group that included Spencer Rattler and several others expected to be high-level contributors
+ Has helped South Carolina compile a 2023 class that ranks 20th in the 2023 On3 Consensus Rankings
+ Contributed to Maryland finishing with the No. 25 class in the 2021 On3 Consensus Rankings
+ Worked at Arkansas as director of recruiting (2018) and at Alabama as a player personnel assistant (2017) before heading to Maryland
Merci Falaise, NC State
Position: General manager
+ Promoted to general manager last year
+ Had been NC State’s director of recruiting and an assistant director of player personnel since 2017
+ Participated in a Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship with the San Francisco 49ers in 2020
+ Worked at Tennessee for three seasons before joining the NC State staff
Tyler Foster, Baylor
Position: Assistant director of player personnel
+ Hired in January. Worked as an offensive analyst at Kansas State last year
+ Previously was a recruiting analyst at Oklahoma State and an assistant at Kimball High in Dallas
Ian Fried, Western Michigan
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Joined Western Michigan’s staff in March after working at Colgate last year
+ Previously was a player personnel assistant at USC
Lucas Gauthier, Colorado State
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Went to Colorado State with Jay Norvell after three seasons as Norvell’s director of player personnel at Nevada
+ Was part of the roster construction at Nevada that helped the Wolf Pack go 15-6 the past two seasons
+ Spent three years in the recruiting office at UCLA before going to Nevada
Kyler Glover, Georgia Tech
Position: Director of on-campus recruiting
+ Hired at Georgia Tech in February after serving as Tennessee’s director of on-campus recruiting last year
+ Was a recruiting and operations specialist at her alma mater, South Carolina, the previous two years
+ Spent time at Charleston Southern as a postgraduate athletics marketing and development intern before taking the job at South Carolina
+ Worked in the athletic department’s marketing office as a student at South Carolina
Zach Grant, Ohio State
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Was hired at Ohio State after five seasons as Western Kentucky’s director of player personnel and general manager
+ Became the Hilltoppers’ director of player personnel at 23 years old, which came after four years working in the recruiting office at Notre Dame
+ Helped Western Kentucky identify and land players like two-time Conference USA Defensive Player of the Year and Atlanta Falcons third-round draft pick DeAngelo Malone along with several players who transferred to Power 5 programs this offseason: wide receiver Mitchell Tinsley (Penn State), cornerback Beanie Bishop (Minnesota) and offensive linemen Cole Spencer (Texas Tech) and Mason Brooks (Ole Miss)
+ Was part of the Hilltoppers playing for the Conference USA title last season
+ Has contributed to Ohio State ranking first in the Big Ten and third nationally in the 2023 On3 Consensus Rankings, including an average commitment rating that ranks second behind Alabama
Carina Hargreaves, Arkansas
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Entering her first year at Arkansas after three years as director of on-campus recruiting at Georgia Tech
+ Spent three years at South Carolina as coordinator of defensive operations (2016-17) and coordinator of football administration (2018)
+ Got her start as a student recruiting assistant and intern at Florida, her alma mater
+ Sister of former Florida All-American and current NFL cornerback Vernon Hargreaves III.
+ Her dad, Vernon Jr., is a 36-year coaching veteran, including as linebacker coach at Arkansas, and currently is special teams coordinator at Howard University
Harding Harper, Houston
Position: Assistant director of player personnel
+ Former Vanderbilt linebacker
+ Joined the Houston staff after working at Colorado as a recruiting assistant
+ Previously a linebackers coach at Division III Lycoming (Pa.) in 2020 and a graduate assistant at Missouri in 2019
Brandon Harris, Texas
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Former LSU and North Carolina quarterback. Threw for 2,165 yards and accounted for 17 touchdowns as LSU’s starter in 2015
+ Has been at Texas since 2019 under a combination of Tom Herman and Steve Sarkisian
+ Shifted to director of recruiting last year after joining the Longhorns as an offensive analyst
Courtney Helom, Houston
Position: Director of on-campus recruiting
+ Joined the Houston staff in January after a year as coordinator of recruiting operations at Texas
+ Was a recruiting assistant at Kentucky for two seasons
+ Graduated from Alabama, where she worked as a strength and conditioning intern for multiple sports, including softball
Drew Hixson, South Carolina
Position: Assistant director of player personnel
+ Served as Kansas’ director of scouting for two seasons before heading to South Carolina last year
+ Previously worked in the personnel and recruiting offices at Virginia and Georgia
Kyle Hofmann, Tennessee State
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Hired in January. Was a leading figure behind Tennessee State landing several FBS transfers, including former Ohio State linebacker K’Vaughn Pope and former Georgia and FIU wide receiver J.J. Holloman
+ Was director of player personnel at Division II West Florida the past two seasons after serving as a defensive line volunteer assistant for the team’s 2019 national championship squad
+ Coached West Florida’s specialists and assisted with the team’s defensive line group while working as director of player personnel
+ Spent 16 years as a high school coach, including four seasons as coach at Napa (Calif.) Vintage from 2013-16. Led the team to its first playoff appearance in eight years
+ Was defensive coordinator, special teams coordinator, recruiting coordinator and secondary coach at Phoenix College, a two-year school, in 2018
Andrea Hollis, Mississippi State
Position: Director of on-campus recruiting
+ Has been at Mississippi State since starting as a student in 2011
+ Entering her sixth season as Mississippi State’s director of on-campus recruiting after starting with the Bulldogs as a student worker and graduate assistant
Derek Hoodjer, Iowa State
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Has worked at Iowa State since 2012 under Paul Rhoads and Matt Campbell, including in his current role for the past five years
+ Was the Cyclones’ assistant director of scouting in 2016 and ’17
+ Contributed to Iowa State’s 2022 class being the highest-ranked group in school history (36th in the On3 Consensus Rankings)
+ Has helped the Cyclones be in position to be ranked each of the past five seasons after an 11-year run without being ranked
Jovon Hubbard, Liberty
Position: Director of external relations
+ Has been at Liberty since 2019
+ Before that, he spent three years at East Carolina
+ Began at ECU as an assistant director of player personnel before being promoted to recruiting coordinator and director of high school relations in 2018
+ Was a scouting intern for the Atlanta Falcons in 2014
Matt Jansen, West Virginia
Position: Director of personnel and scouting
+ Has been at West Virginia since 2019, progressing from player personnel and recruiting assistant to assistant director of scouting and now his current role
+ Worked in the NFL before heading to West Virginia, including as college scouting coordinator with the Houston Texans (2015-18) and as a player personnel assistant with the Baltimore Ravens (2013-15)
+ Was a student assistant coach at Texas Tech from 2006-11
Errin Joe, Alabama
Position: Assistant director of player personnel
+ Was hired by Alabama in March after two months as director of recruiting at UConn
+ Spent the past four seasons at Georgia Tech, including as associate director of player personnel last year
+ Former Georgia Tech starting offensive lineman; helped the Yellow Jackets rank No. 2 nationally in rushing as a junior in 2014
Carrigan Johnson, Alabama
Position: Associate director of recruitment
+ Has been at Alabama since 2019
+ Promoted to her current role earlier this year; started off with the Crimson Tide as a recruiting operations coordinator
+ Previously a football operations student worker at LSU, her alma mater
John Michael Jones, Texas
Position: Assistant director of player personnel
+ Was retained by Steve Sarkisian after working at Texas under Tom Herman, Charlie Strong and Mack Brown.
+ Has been an assistant director of player personnel since 2018
+ Started off with the Longhorns as a student recruiting assistant in 2013
Catherine Kennedy, Penn State
Position: Recruiting coordinator for operations and visits
+ Started with Penn State in April
+ Arrived at Penn State from Marshall, where she had been the Thundering Herd’s director of on-campus recruiting
+ Was a recruiting operations intern for two years at Alabama, her alma mater
Angela Kirkpatrick, Georgia
Position: Associate director of recruiting operations
+ Joined the Georgia staff in 2019 after two seasons as director of on-campus recruiting at North Carolina, where she helped the Tar Heels sign a 2018 recruiting class that – at the time – ranked as their highest-ranked class since 2011
+ Progressed to her current role after beginning with Georgia as an assistant recruiting coordinator
+ Worked as a recruiting operations graduate assistant at Tennessee, her alma mater
Jacob LaFrance, Florida
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Joined Billy Napier at Florida after three seasons under Napier at Louisiana
+ Previously worked at UTSA (2016-19) and as a recruiting analyst at Maryland (2014-15)
+ Helped Louisiana finish with the top-ranked recruiting class in the Sun Belt in 2020 and ’21
+ Has contributed to Florida having a 2023 class that’s currently ranked 10th in the On3 Consensus Rankings
Brandon Lawson, Tennessee
Position: Director of scouting
+ Back with the Vols after graduating from Tennessee and working for the team as a personnel administrator from 2010-14
+ Has been with Josh Heupel the past five years, first as his director of player personnel at UCF and now as his director of scouting with the Vols
+ Made the move to UCF after working as director of recruiting at Eastern Kentucky and director of player personnel at Middle Tennessee
Rich Massaro, Buffalo
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Had been with the CFL’s Hamilton Tiger Cats since 2016 before being hired by Buffalo in January
+ A Buffalo native
+ Was promoted to coordinator of U.S. scouting and then to assistant director of player personnel and football operations with the Tiger Cats after starting with the team as a U.S. scout
+ Spent two years working in the NFL before heading to the CFL; he was a football operations intern with the Indianapolis Colts (2015) and remote film and charting analyst with the Cleveland Browns (2014)
Kevin Mashack, Texas A&M
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Hired in the spring after working as director of player personnel and high school relations at Indiana last season
+ Previously was running backs coach, recruiting coordinator and pro liaison at Tennessee State for four seasons
+ Helped Indiana finish with the No. 30 class in the 2022 On3 Consensus Rankings
+ Contributed to Tennessee State signing the 11th-best class in the FCS ranks in 2020
A.K. Mogulla, Liberty
Position: General manager
+ Has spent time in college with programs such as Florida and Georgia Tech as well as in the NFL with the Chicago Bears, Miami Dolphins and Washington Commanders
+ Went to Liberty from Central Michigan, where he served as the team’s general manager
+ Also has worked for the Senior Bowl (2017-18) and as director of football operations for the AAF’s Arizona Hotshots in 2019 as part of a staff that briefly included his current boss, Hugh Freeze
Joe Moreno, Southern Miss
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Entering his second season at Southern Miss
+ Hired by the Golden Eagles after two seasons working as a player personnel graduate assistant at Auburn
+ Previously spent time in the recruiting departments at Stanford and Harvard
Courtney Morgan, Washington
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Former Michigan offensive lineman; made 11 career starts for the Wolverines
+ Was Michigan’s director of player personnel last season
+ Left the Wolverines to reunite with new Washington coach Kalen DeBoer; Morgan worked for DeBoer as director of player personnel at Fresno State in 2020
Corey Phillips, LSU
Position: Associate director of player personnel
+ Hired by Brian Kelly at LSU after working as director of scouting at NC State
+ Also was pursued by two other SEC teams
+ Previously worked in the SEC as recruiting coordinator under Derek Mason at Vanderbilt
+ Was a high school coach in Tennessee for a decade before heading to the college level with Vanderbilt, including as a defensive coordinator for two Nashville high schools
+ Former Austin Peay all-conference defensive back. Was a four-year starter and posted 13 career interceptions for the Governors
Kyle Pollock, Ohio U.
Position: Director of recruiting and video operations
+ In his first year in his current role after two seasons as an assistant director of player personnel and an operations/recruiting assistant for the Bobcats
+ Worked as a college scout for the XFL during the new XFL’s inaugural season
+ Was a student recruiting intern at Penn State for three seasons
Logen Reed, Georgia
Position: Associate director of recruiting operations
+ Promoted to her current role earlier this year after three seasons as an assistant recruiting coordinator for the Bulldogs
+ Arrived at Georgia in 2019 after working as a recruiting intern at Indiana, her alma mater
Steven Ruzic, Auburn
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Hired in January after eight months as an assistant director of player personnel at North Carolina
+ Previously worked as director of recruiting communications at Minnesota (2019-21), head recruiting specialist at Ole Miss (2018-19) and assistant director of recruiting at UT Chattanooga (2017-18)
+ A key contributor as Auburn has been putting together a 2023 class that ranks 16th nationally in average commit rating within the On3 Consensus Rankings
+ Helped Minnesota finish with two consecutive top-40 recruiting classes, including 28th in 2021, which ranked as the Golden Gophers’ best class since 2009
+ Contributed to UT Chattanooga signing the third-best class in the FCS ranks in 2018
+ Son of a longtime Georgia high school coach
Kenny Sanders, Penn State
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Returned to Penn State last year after serving as director of recruiting at Oregon under Mario Cristobal
+ Promoted to his current role in April after spending last year as Penn State’s national recruiting coordinator
+ Was an assistant director of player personnel for the Nittany Lions from 2014-19
+ Worked in scouting for the Baltimore Ravens from 2009-14
+ Aided by Sanders, Penn State ranks 11th nationally and No. 2 in the Big Ten in the 2023 On3 Consensus Rankings
Steven Schrum, Miami
Position: Manager of scouting logistics and personnel
+ Hired in May.
+ Spent last season as a personnel assistant at Wisconsin after three seasons as director of player personnel at Kent State
+ Was a recruiting quality control staffer at Syracuse before heading to Kent State
Taylor Searels, Texas
Position: Director of recruiting operations
+ Hired at Texas last year after two years as director of on-campus recruiting at Vanderbilt
+ Spent the previous three years as a student assistant in the recruiting department at Auburn, her alma mater
+ Daughter of Georgia offensive line coach Stacy Searels
Bird Sherrill, Florida
Position: Director of college scouting
+ Returned to college under Billy Napier at Florida after six years with the Detroit Lions, including the past four as a scout
+ Graduated from Alabama in 2016
+ Worked in the Crimson Tide recruiting office as a student at Alabama while Napier was the team’s wide receivers coach
Ryan Smith, Georgia Southern
Position: General manager
+ Was Auburn’s director of player personnel last year after two years as an offensive recruiting analyst at North Carolina
+ Had a previous stint at Auburn as personnel and operations assistant in 2018
Casey Smithson, Houston
Position: Director of player personnel
+ Has worked for Dana Holgorsen at West Virginia and Houston
+ Had been at West Virginia since 2007 before joining Holgorsen at Houston in 2020, including as a recruiting coordinator the final seven seasons at WVU
+ Helped Houston build a roster that posted a 12-2 record last season after the Cougars went 7-12 the previous two seasons
Keava Soil-Cormier, Baylor
Position: Associate AD for player personnel
+ Joined the Baylor staff in January
+ Spent the previous eight years at LSU, where she worked with current Baylor coach Dave Aranda from 2016-19
+ Was assistant director of recruiting operations at LSU
+ Earned a law degree from LSU in 2014 after earning her bachelor’s degree from the school in 2011
Justin Speros, Virginia
Position: Director of scouting
+ Reunited with new Virginia coach Tony Elliott after two years as director of scouting at USF and one as director of scouting and quality control at Western Carolina
+ Previously worked with Elliott at Clemson
+ Was a student assistant in the Clemson recruiting department, then a recruiting assistant for the Tigers after graduating
+ Spent time with the Cleveland Browns as a coaching intern in 2019
+ Son of Jim Speros, who was an assistant coach for the 1982 Washington Redskins Super Bowl team and later the owner of the Baltimore Stallions in the CFL
Max Stienecker, Cincinnati
Position: Director of recruiting strategy
+ Has been part of Cincinnati’s staff since 2018
+ Promoted to his current position in February after previous roles as a student assistant, special assistant to the director of recruiting and director of on-campus recruiting
Mike Villagrana, Virginia Tech
Position: Senior director of player personnel
+ Reunited with new Virginia Tech coach Brent Pry after working with him at Penn State from 2015-17
+ Served as Marshall’s general manager last season, helping with a 2022 class that ranked second in Conference USA in the On3 Consensus Rankings
+ Made the move to Marshall after four years as director of recruiting at Mississippi State under Joe Moorhead and Mike Leach
+ Former West Virginia starting tight end
Marc Votteler, Marshall
Position: General manager
+ Hired in January as the replacement for the previous person on the list, Villagrana
+ Previously worked with Marshall coach Charles Huff at Alabama. Was an assistant director of player personnel for the Crimson Tide the past three years, assisting with classes that ranked second or better nationally each of those years
+ Joined Alabama after stops at UCF (2018) and Tennessee (2014-18)
+ Became an assistant director of player personnel for the Vols after starting off as an assistant director of video
Bri Wade, Florida
Position: Director of on-campus recruiting and events
+ Made the move to Florida after spending the past two years as part of Billy Napier’s staff at Louisiana
+ Previously at her alma mater, Mississippi State, as a recruiting assistant
Alex White, North Carolina
Position: Director of recruiting
+ Returned to her alma mater in January 2021
+ Shifted to her current role after initially being hired as coordinator of the head coach’s external relations, which included responsibilities such as assisting Tar Heels coach Mack Brown with his recruiting and donor relationships as well as collaborating with the recruiting department on special projects
+ Virginia Tech’s director of on-campus recruiting in 2020
+ Previously worked as a recruiting and operations assistant at Appalachian State
Alan Zemaitis, Penn State
Position: Assistant recruiting coordinator
+ Former Penn State and NFL defensive back.
+ An All-American for the Nittany Lions and a 2006 fourth-round draft pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers
+ Joined Penn State’s staff last year after working as special teams coordinator and safeties coach at Division III Susquehanna (Pa.)
Weston Zernechel, USC
Position: Assistant director of player personnel
+ Hired in February after five years at Ohio State
+ Was an assistant director of player personnel for the Buckeyes the past four years after one year as a recruiting assistant
+ Served as a recruiting assistant at Houston in 2016