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Michigan has apparently hired HS coach -- and NFL coaching vet -- Michael Johnson for a spot on its staff.

(Melanie Maxwell | MLive.com)

ANN ARBOR -- Jim Harbaugh's in the process of filling his roster of coaching analysts this offseason.

And he's apparently found another highly-qualified coach -- with a tie to a rather elite 2019 quarterback recruit.

Michael Johnson -- formerly the head coach at The King's Academy in Sunnyvale, California -- will take a job on Harbaugh's staff at Michigan, the high school announced Monday via Twitter.

Head football coach Michael Johnson has resigned and is taking a position on staff at the University of Michigan. Good luck coach!! #GoBlue — TKA Athletics (@TKA_Athletics) February 13, 2017

Johnson isn't just a now-former high school coach or the father of a top-flight prospect -- 2019 recruit Michael Johnson Jr. is the No. 1-ranked dual-threat passer in his class -- but he's also a former college and NFL offensive coordinator.

In fact, he also served as Jim Harbaugh's quarterbacks coach with the San Diego Chargers in 2000.

He spent a decade coaching in the NFL from 2000-2010 -- making stops with the Chargers, the Atlanta Falcons, the Baltimore Ravens (with John Harbaugh) and the San Francisco 49ers the year before Jim Harbaugh became the team's head coach.

Johnson was San Francisco's offensive coordinator in 2010. He went on to become UCLA's offensive coordinator in 2011. He also served as UCLA's interim head coach for one game that year after Rick Neuheisel was fired.

After his stint at UCLA, Johnson resurfaced to run The King's Academy program in 2014.

A former college quarterback at Arizona State and Akron, Johnson played semi-professional football until 1995. His first coaching job was as a wide receivers coach with Oregon State in 1997.

The specifics of Johnson's job at this time are unclear, though it won't be an on-field position -- at least right now -- as Michigan's on-field assistant staff is filled.

The NCAA is scheduled to vote later this spring, though, on whether or not it'll allow Football Bowl Subdivision coaching staffs to add another on-field assistant -- bringing the number to 10.

There also is an NCAA proposal that would ban college teams from hiring high school coaches of prospective student-athletes "during a two-year period before a prospective student-athlete's anticipated enrollment" to fill a "nonfootball coaching" role.

If Johnson is elevated to an on-field coaching job -- if the proposal is passed this spring -- this would not be a violation of the proposed rule.

This isn't the first high school coach -- or parent -- Harbaugh's hired, of course.

Michigan's head coach hired linebacker Devin Bush Jr.'s father as an analyst in 2016. Harbaugh hired current linebackers coach Chris Partridge -- a high school coach at the alma mater of Jabrill Peppers and Rashan Gary -- in 2015. He also hired Gwen Bush -- a "recruiting administrator" and the mother of now former Michigan safety Wayne Lyons.