Former Auburn standout, SEC coordinator set to join Nick Saban’s staff at Alabama

Travaris Robinson is heading back to the SEC. But he’s not going back to his alma mater.

Robinson is expected to join Alabama’s coaching staff, according to The Athletic’s Bruce Feldman and Aaron Suttles. The former Auburn standout spent the last two years as the defensive backs coach at Miami.

SOURCES: Miami DB coach Travaris Robinson is expected to take a job on the Alabama staff, sources tell me and @aaronsuttles. The former Auburn standout defensive back has been a DC at South Carolina and also coached DBs at UF and his alma mater.

— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) January 20, 2022

Robinson was a first team All-SEC nominee as a senior at Auburn in 2002. He went undrafted in the 2003 NFL Draft, but ended up with the Atlanta Falcons and Tampa Bay Buccaneers that year.

Robinson jumped to college coaching in 2006 as a graduate assistant at his alma mater before bouncing around to Western Kentucky, Southern Mississippi and Texas Tech until 2010. That’s when he landed at Florida from 2011-14 as defensive backs coach.

After a year back at Auburn in 2015, Robinson headed to South Carolina as defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach from 2016-20 before arriving at Miami.

Alabama set to hire Ole Miss coach to staff for 2022

Alabama is expected to hire Ole Miss special teams coordinator Coleman Hutzler, sources tell On3’s Matt Zenitz.

Before Ole Miss, Hutzler was co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach at Texas after four years as linebackers coach and special teams coordinator at South Carolina.

During his tenure with the Gamecocks, he worked closely with San Francisco 49ers star receiver Deebo Samuel and helped mentor the former Gamecock to his school-record fourth career kickoff return for a touchdown, tying the SEC all-time mark and was named first-team All-SEC as a return specialist in 2018.

Samuel returned each of his two kickoffs for touchdowns in the season’s first two games.

In 2017, Hutzler was nominated for the Broyles Award, an award that honors to the nation’s top assistant coach. He joined the Ole Miss staff in 2019 where the Rebels improved in each season he was on staff, including a 10-3 season this past year.

Hutzler began his coaching career at the University of San Diego, where he worked as a defensive assistant in 2006 before moving to Palo Alto to become a recruiting assistant at Stanford in 2007 and served as an assistant on the defensive side of the ball for the Cardinal in 2008 and 2009.

Once he left Stanford, he spent the next nine seasons as a special teams coordinator at Florida (twice), New Mexico, Boston College and South Carolina.

The one season he wasn’t a special teams coordinator was his lone season at Texas where his defense ranked No. 9 in the nation on fourth down conversion defense (.333). Then-junior Joseph Ossai earned consensus All-American honors under Hutzler. Ossai ranked No. 14 in the country with 58 tackles for loss and led the Big 12 in forced fumbles.