Former UCLA star running back DeShaun Foster will be UCLA's new running backs coach, and Hank Fraley, a long-time NFL veteran offensive lineman, will serve as the new UCLA offensive line coach, according to sources.

UCLA's current quarterbacks coach, Marques Tuiasosopo, will move on from UCLA to Cal, where he'll serve as quarterbacks coach.

Foster, 37, will return to UCLA after spending one year at Texas Tech as its running backs coach. Foster spent the three prior seasons as graduate assistant running backs coach under Kennedy Polamalu at UCLA and director of player development. Foster, of course, was an NFL running back for six seasons with the Carolina Panthers and San Francisco 49ers, following his illustrious four-year career at UCLA from 1998 to 2001. .

Foster is expected on UCLA's campus by Monday.

Fraley, 39, currently the assistant offensive line coach with Minnesota Vikings, is also a long-time NFL veteran, having spent 11 seasons in the NFL as an offensive lineman with the Philadelpha Eagles, Cleveland Browns and St. Louis Rams. He then moved on to be the offensive line coach at the University of San Diego for a year, and then San Jose State before taking the job with the Vikings.



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Fraley will coach in the East-West Shrine Game Saturday, and then either be on UCLA's campus Saturday night or Sunday.

Fraley's NFL experience, being one of the best centers in the game for a number of years, is expected to help refine the UCLA offensive line and be effective in recruiting. UCLA currently has three committed offensive linemen in the 2017 class, Jaxson Kirkland from Oregon, Kanan Ray from Chatsworth, and Jax Wacaser from Arizona, that Fraley will have to help keep committed and then potentially add more to the class.

Foster was considered a very good technical running backs coach and well-respected by the players while a graduate assistant at UCLA, and an effective and aggressive recruiter that connected well with prospects.