Georgia has added a pair of defensive coaches to its support staff, including another who was an on-field coach at the college level in 2019.

Dawgs247 has learned that former Furman and Austin Peay cornerbacks coach Rod Ojong is now a defensive quality control assistant at UGA. The Bulldogs have also brought on Laiu Moeakiola as a defensive graduate assistant.

Ojong spent the 2019 season at Furman as the team's cornerbacks coach. He held the same role at Austin Peay the year before and traveled to UGA with the Governors for the 2018 season opener, a game that Georgia won 45-0. He joins Buster Faulkner as a new addition to the Bulldogs quality control staff with both having served in an on-field capacity in 2019. Faulkner was the offensive coordinator at Souther Miss last season and he held the same post at Arkansas State for the three years prior.

Prior to his time at Austin Peay, Ojong was a graduate assistant at North Carolina for two years (2016 and 2017). His time in Chapel Hill, N.C. overlapped with current UGA defensive line coach Tray Scott. They were both with the program in 2016 and, once again, he was on the other sideline for a season opener with Georgia that year. The Bulldogs topped the Tar Heels in the 2016 Chick-Fil-A Kickoff at the Georgia Dome by a score of 33-24.

He spent the 2015 season at Memphis as a defensive graduate assistant but his stint with the Tigers did not allow him to work with current UGA defensive coordinator and outside linebackers coach Dan Lanning, who joined that staff in 2016.

Ojong was at West Georgia in 2014 where he was an on-field coach and worked with the safeties. He played his college ball at Monmouth and was a two-year letterman In 2011, he earned All-Midwest Conference honors at linebacker with 104 total tackles. He stayed one at Monmouth after graduating where he began his coaching career as student assistant in charge of working with the linebackers.

Moeakiola has spent the past few seasons as a defensive graduate assistant at TCU. Unlike Ojong, he does have ties to Lanning. He was a linebacker at Arizona State in 2012 (true freshman) and 2013 (redshirt freshman) where he was coached by Lanning, a graduate assistant at the time.

Former UGA outside linebacker Jarvis Jones, who is an undergraduate assistant, is expected to remain with the team in that same role in 2020.

As a player, Moeakiola played in 50 games with 203 total tackles, 20.5 tackles for a loss, seven sacks, three interceptions, 20 pass breakups, a forced fumble and three fumble recoveries. His time at TCU allowed him to work under a well-respected defensive head coach in Gary Patterson.

In additon to Ojong, Moeakiola, and Faulkner, Georgia has also filled the two openings on its strength staff. Those two positions were vacated by Jamil Walker and Ed Ellis, who left UGA to become the Director of Strength and Conditioning and Assistant Director of Strength and Conditioning, respectively, at Arkansas.

Kirby Smart and Scott Sinclair tapped Maurice Sims, who spent 2019 at North Carolina, to fill one of those roles. They hired Tersoo Uhaa to fill the other role. He comes to UGA after working at Texas Tech's basketball team, one that made the the national championship game in 2019.