Greg Schiano has completed his Rutgers football coaching staff, hiring Adam Scheier to serve as the Scarlet Knights’ special teams coordinator, a person with knowledge of the decision told NJ Advance Media on Tuesday.

The news of Scheier’s hiring was first reported on NJ.com’s Rutgers Sports Insider.

A Bronx native, Scheier spent this past season as a senior special teams consultant under Joe Moorhead at Mississippi State.

Prior to that he was at Texas Tech, where he served as special teams coordinator and earned a Broyles Award nomination in 2018. Texas Tech was one of only three schools nationally that produced a semifinalist for both the Lou Groza Award (Clayton Hatfield) and the Ray Guy Award (Dominic Panazzolo).

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In 2017, he was at Ohio State, where, as the Buckeyes’ special teams quality control coach, he worked with Schiano. Scheier worked with Ohio State coach Urban Meyer on game-planning, scheme development, opponent scouting and personnel for a Big Ten-championship winning Buckeyes squad that ranked ninth nationally in punting (led the Big Ten), 10th in kickoff coverage (third in the Big Ten) and 17th for kickoff return (second in the Big Ten) and produced All-Big Ten performers at kicker, punter and return specialist.

A Dartmouth product, Scheier also spent time at Columbia, Princeton, Lehigh, Bowling Green and Wake Forest in his 24-year career and has specialized in special teams in all but four of those seasons.

Here is Schiano’s first 10-man assistant staff:

Sean Gleeson (offensive coordinator); Robb Smith (defensive coordinator); Andrew Aurich (offensive line); Augie Hoffman (running backs); Nunzio Campanile (tight ends); Tiquan Underwood (wide receivers); Fran Brown (secondary); Bob Fraser (linebackers); Jim Panagos (defensive line); Adam Scheier (special teams coordinator).

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Keith Sargeant may be reached at ksargeant@njadvancemedia.com. Follow him on Twitter @KSargeantNJ. Find NJ.com Rutgers Football on Facebook.