Gus Malzahn is reportedly bringing in a well-connected defensive coach to join the Auburn staff.
Mike Silver is reporting that Brandon Fisher will join the Tigers staff as a defensive analyst. Brandon is the son of former NFL coach Jeff Fisher and the brother of former Auburn defensive back Trent Fisher. Trent played in 33 games for the Tigers over the 2011-13 seasons.
Brandon Fisher was most recently the defensive coordinator at Southern Utah. He played football at the Unversity of Montana, where he began his collegiate career as a safety, but made the move to linebacker in 2008, playing in 54 games (including 30 starts), finishing with 169 career tackles. As a senior, he was a second-team All-Big Sky Conference, helping lead the Grizzlies to a 14-1 record with the loss coming to Villanova in the FCS title game.
As one would expect, much of Brandon’s early coaching career was spent working under his father. Brandon spent a portion of the 2010 NFL season working with the Tennessee Titans’ offensive coaching staff, Jeff’s last season with the franchise. While Jeff was not coaching in 2011, Brandon was part of a Detroit Lions staff that led the club to the franchise’s first playoff appearance since 1998. In 2012, Brandon re-joined his father as an assistant with the Rams franchise as assistant secondary coach. In 2015, the final season of the St. Louis Rams, his title changed to defensive backs coach and then to secondary coach in 2016 for the Los Angeles Rams.
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