UCF hires former Auburn player

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UCF hires former Auburn player, Texas State assistant Kam Martin as running backs coach

Chris Boyle, The Daytona Beach News-Journal

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Auburn’s Jarrett Stidham (8) hands the ball off to Auburn’s Kam Martin (9) at Jordan-Hare Stadium in Auburn, Ala., on Saturday, Sept. 29, 2018. Auburn leads Southern Miss 14-3, the game went into a weather delay with 4:27 left in the second quarter.

 

Gus Malzahn brought back one of his former Auburn ball-carriers to his coaching staff at UCF.

Kam Martin was named the Knights' running backs coach Wednesday afternoon, as first reported by 247Sports' Brandon Marcello. Martin rushed for 1,564 yards at Auburn between 2016-19.

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Martin entered the coaching ranks in 2021 as a recruiting and offensive assistant at UCF. He left after a year to join GJ Kinne's staff at Incarnate Word, and then followed the Knights' former co-offensive coordinator/quarterbacks coach when he was hired as head coach at Texas State in December.

Incarnate Word rushed for 3,011 yards last season, reaching the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision semifinals and shattering the school's previous high mark for rushing yards by more than 1,000. The Cardinals led the country in scoring as well, at 51.5 points per game.

A former four-star recruit and Texas high school 4x200-meter relay track champion, Martin takes over for Tim Harris Jr., who was hired for the same position last week by Miami.

 

Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn and Auburn senior running back Kam Martin (9) walk off the field during the Outback Bowl at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Fla., on Wednesday, Jan. 1, 2020. Minnesota defeated Auburn 31-24.

 

Malzahn's staff has undergone several significant changes ahead of UCF's first campaign as a member of the Big 12. Offensive coordinator Chip Lindsey and defensive coordinator/linebackers Travis Williams coach departed — for North Carolina and Arkansas, respectively — just before the early signing period in December.

UCF promoted defensive backs coach Addison Williams to defensive coordinator, and hired UAB offensive coordinator Darin Hinshaw — one of the Knights' most prolific passers in program history — at the beginning of January. Ernie Sims takes over as linebackers coach, and former Charlotte head coach Will Healy joined the staff as an offensive analyst.

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: UCF football: Kam Martin to rejoin staff as running backs coach

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