Defensive backs coach Torrian Gray is leaving UF for the NFL.
After helping shape the nation’s second-best pass defense in 2016, Gray has been hired to the Washington Redskins’ coaching staff, 247Sports reported on Saturday.
Gray was hired to the UF job from Virginia Tech and joined Florida’s staff in February 2016. He’s already had one two-year stint in the NFL as an assistant defensive backs coach for the Chicago bears in 2004-2005.
In Gray’s lone season as a UF coach, the Gators secondary jumped from No. 13 in passing yards allowed per game and No.