Tennessee director of player personnel Bob Welton

A staple member of Tennessee's football program under previous head coach Butch Jones is set to leave the Vols for a position at another program.

Director of player personnel Bob Welton is leaving Tennessee and is expected to land at Nebraska, sources told GoVols247 on Tuesday.

Welton has continued working in Tennessee's recruiting office through the coaching change from Jones to Jeremy Pruitt, but now will move on now that National Signing Day has passed.

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Jones hired Welton to Tennessee's staff in 2013 and he's been the key cog in Tennessee's recruiting office the past five seasons.

Prior to coming to Tennessee, Welton was a college scout for the NFL's Cleveland Browns for nine years and spent the previous seven years as a head football coach at the high school level in Michigan.

The Vols officially announced the hire of Drew Hughes as its new director of player personnel last week, though the former personnel director at Florida, NC State and Central Florida, who previously worked alongside Pruitt at Alabama, has been with Tennessee for more than a month.

According to his bio on Tennessee's official website, Hughes "will manage the recruiting department for the Vols, including on and off-campus recruiting, talent evaluation and high school relations."

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