A former University of Alabama football player is rising up the coaching ranks in college football.
Derek Kief, an alumnus of Crimson Tide football, has been hired to be a wide receivers coach at Missouri State.
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Matt Zenitz, a college football national reporter for 247Sports, reported the news.
Missouri State is expected to hire Derek Kief as its new wide receivers coach, a source tells @247Sports.
The former Alabama wide receiver was an analyst and eventually the interim wide receivers coach at Arkansas last season. Was previously the wide receivers coach at Towson at… pic.twitter.com/Uvf335I9sJ
— Matt Zenitz (@mzenitz) March 16, 2024
Kief was previously an analyst and then interim wide receivers coach at Arkansas.
He was the wide receivers coach at Towson at the FCS level after having a graduate assistant job Maryland. Kief, a Cincinnati (Ohio) native, came to Alabama as a four-star receiver in the 2014 recruiting class. The 6-foot-4 specimen battled through injuries in his career, but he helped the Crimson Tide win two College Football Playoff National Championships in 2015 and 2017.
Kief has four Southeastern Conference Championship rings (2014-16, 2018).
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