Meet the staff: What to know about Ole Miss football's 2022 coaching hires

OXFORD — Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin is filling out his third staff in three years as Rebels football coach.

Kiffin's staff has experienced plenty of turnover after a 10-3 season and a trip to the Sugar Bowl. He has to replace three coordinators and a number of additional position coaches after some assistants opted to leave for other jobs and other assistants were not retained.

Here is a look at what you need to know about Ole Miss' assistant coaches for 2022. This story will be updated as more coaches are hired.

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Charlie Weis Jr.

Ole Miss hired former Florida Atlantic and South Florida offensive coordinator Charlie Weis Jr., as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Weis worked with Kiffin as an analyst when Kiffin was offensive coordinator at Alabama and Kiffin hired him for his first on-field coaching job at Florida Atlantic.

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Weis is the son of former Notre Dame and Kansas head coach Charlie Weis, who coached three Super Bowl winning teams as the offensive coordinator of the New England Patriots.

Ole Miss has not announced who will share offensive coordinator duties with Weis.

Marquel Blackwell

New running backs coach Marquel Blackwell comes to Ole Miss after two seasons at Houston, one as running backs coach and the other as co-offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach. Prior to Houston, Blackwell worked at West Virginia and Toledo and was an off-field analyst at Florida.

Blackwell has experience as a high school head coach in Florida and started at quarterback at South Florida for four seasons. Most notably, he was the running backs coach at Toledo who mentored future NFL rushing champ Kareem Hunt.

Chris Kiffin

Lane Kiffin hired his brother Chris Kiffin to be the Rebels' co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach. The younger Kiffin coached defensive linemen at Ole Miss from 2012 until 2016. Since then, he has worked with his brother at Florida Atlantic and been defensive line coach for the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns.

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During his first tenure at Ole Miss, Kiffin was implicated in the NCAA investigation into the Rebels' athletic department for committing a number of alleged recruiting infractions. That said, Kiffin's defenses were among the best in college football in his time in Oxford and he was awarded as Scout.com's National Recruiter of the Year in 2013.

Chris Partridge will retain his role from the last two seasons as co-defensive coordinator and safeties coach.

Nick Savage

The Rebels added Nick Savage as their new head strength and conditioning coach, replacing Wilson Love who left for Oregon. Savage previously worked in the same position at Florida and progressed from assistant strength coach to head strength coach at Mississippi State.

Prior to his two stints working under former Florida and Mississippi State coach Dan Mullen, Savage interned and worked as a graduate assistant at Toledo, Ohio State and Bowling Green.

Sam Carter

After two years at Arkansas, Sam Carter is coming to Ole Miss for the same job. Carter is a young coach; he finished his college playing days in 2014. But he's spent the last two years coaching cornerbacks at Arkansas, which ran the same 3-2-6 defense as Ole Miss, and previously worked as a quality control and defensive analyst at Missouri.

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Kiffin's staff tend to skew young and Carter is no exception. He played safety at TCU from 2011-14 and finished his college career in the 2014 Peach Bowl against Ole Miss. Across his four-year TCU career he intercepted 13 passes and broke up 18.

Contact Nick Suss at 601-408-2674 or nsuss@gannett.com. Follow @nicksuss on Twitter.

This article originally appeared on Mississippi Clarion Ledger: What to know about Lane Kiffin's Ole Miss football 2022 coaching staff