Jason Jones is now on staff for the Tide, helping coach defensive backs alongside Maurice Linguist, who largely focused on UA’s cornerbacks last season. He’s one of two additions to the staff, along with Chuck Morrell, who got a promotion to inside linebackers coach.

But he did lose his right-hand man from his days as the Huskies HC, and there are rumors the two could be getting together in Tuscaloosa... Kalen DeBoer leaving the light on for R

After firing Colin Hitschler after one season with the Crimson Tide, DeBoer hired Jones, a former Alabama defensive back and Tuscaloosa native who was most recently the cornerbacks coach at North Carolina, to his staff.