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Orlando Sentinel · Feb 24

UCF set to lose new defensive backs coach to NFL

UCF coach Scott Frost loses an assistant coach as defensive backs coach Will Johnson is leaving the program to join the Minnesota Vikings' coaching staff. (Phelan M. Ebenhack/Special to the Sentinel)UCF is looking for a new defensive backs coach for the second time in the past three months, after reports emerged on Tuesday that Will Johnson was leaving the program to join the coaching staff with the Minnesota Vikings.

Johnson was hired in December to replace Brandon Harris, who left to join Jon Sumrall’s coaching staff at Florida. Johnson will join Kevin O’Connell’s coaching staff as a defensive assistant, according to the Vikings’ website.

Full story at Orlando Sentinel

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