Multiple reports indicate Irish head coach Brian Kelly will bring in Lance Taylor as the new Notre Dame running backs coach. Taylor spent the last two seasons as receivers coach with the Carolina Panthers and the previous three years at Stanford as running backs coach.
If nothing else, a coaching track record containing Christian McCaffrey’s breakout 2015 and standout 2016 is not one to scoff at. McCaffrey ended up a Heisman finalist under Taylor’s tutelage.
Sources: Lance Taylor expected to become the next running backs coach at Notre Dame. Former Stanford RB coach was in NFL with Carolina Panthers as an assistant.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) January 27, 2019
Taylor played at Alabama as a receiver at the turn of the century (1999 - 2003) and now replaces Autry Denson, who spent four seasons on Kelly’s staff before heading to Charleston Southern earlier this month to take over as head coach.
To this point, this is the only change on the Irish coaching staff this offseason and anything further would come as a surprise.
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