Trent Dilfer is expected to hire Brent Vieselmeyer as UAB's new linebackers coach and Sam Mills III as its new defensive line coach, sources told FootballScoop on Thursday.
Both men worked most recently as NFL position coaches.
Vieselmeyer was the Washington Commanders defensive backs coach in 2023. Christian McCaffrey's head coach at Valor Christian High School in Colorado, Viselemeyer has multiple stops at all three levels, coaching previously at Houston Baptist and Kansas in college, the Oakland Raiders and Commanders in the NFL, and at multiple high schools in Colorado and California. He was the Commanders' nickels coach from 2020-22 before taking over the entire secondary in 2023.
Mills spent 2005-19 with the Carolina Panthers, starting as an assistant strength coach and rising to become the defensive line coach by 2018. He joined then-head coach Ron Rivera in Washington in 2020 but was let go after the 2021 campaign.
UAB is looking to improve on a 3-9 mark in 2023 and a 7-17 start to the Dilfer era.
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