Alabama DBs Coach Derek Ansley to be named Colorado State DC

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Alabama defensive backs coach Derrick Ansley has agreed in principle to become Colorado State’s defensive coordinator, sources tell FootballScoop.

Ansley is expected to join Mike Bobo’s staff after Alabama completes the College Football Playoff National Championship against Georgia on Monday night. He becomes the second Tide defensive staffer to leave for a promotion this offseason after defensive coordinator Jeremy Pruitt took the Tennessee job last month.

Ansley is a native Alabamian who has spent the majority of his life in the Yellowhammer State. He played at Troy and then coached five years at Division III Huntingdon College in Montgomery before joining Nick Saban’s staff as a graduate assistant in 2010-11. Those seasons on Saban’s staff led Ansley to defensive backs jobs at Tennessee (2012) and Kentucky (2013-15) before returning to Alabama in 2016.

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