Kevin Steele was set to join Maryland as its new defensive coordinator, but a new report on Tuesday pointed out that the former long-time SEC assistant is being targeted by Miami.

The report comes from Matt Zenitz of On3 Sports as Steele, who did not coach last season after he served as interim coach for both Auburn and Tennessee.

A well-respected defensive assistant, Steele was with Auburn from 2016 to 2020, and he was a Broyles Award finalist in 2017 and a semifinalist in 2019 as the top assistant coach in college football. He moved to Tennessee briefly between the coaching changes at Auburn after Gus Malzahn was fired, and before Josh Heupel was hired at Tennessee.

Steele, 63, has been in coaching since 1980. He got his start at Tennessee, his alma mater, as a student assistant and quickly worked his way up to coaching UT’s outside linebackers in 1982. Steele returned to Tennessee in 1987 for a 2-season stint coaching defensive backs.

Steele was Baylor’s head coach from 1999-to-2002, and went 9-36. In recent years, he’s been a defensive coordinator across the SEC West, including Alabama (2007) and LSU (2015). Steele also worked at Alabama in 2008, 2013 and ’14 in non-coordinator positions.

It will be interesting to see if Steele would leave Mike Locksley’s staff as the 2 veteran coaches have a longstanding relationship.