Mark Snyder

Detroit Free Press

Jim Harbaugh is wasting no time.

The Michigan football coach will add Cleveland Browns associate head coach Pep Hamilton to the U-M coaching staff, filling the hole left by Jedd Fisch, according to the NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

Rapoport tweeted today that Harbaugh has been telling recruits for a few days that Hamilton will be at Michigan.

Yet the decision may not be finalized yet.

At a press conference today with Cleveland reporters, Browns coach Hue Jackson said he expects Hamilton to stay with the team.

“Yeah, I sure hope so," Jackson said in a transcript posted by the team. "I have known about the Jim Harbaugh situation from a week and a half ago. I feel very comfortable that Pep is staying. Anything can happen. We want him to stay. We hope he stays. Like I said, a young man is entitled to do what they feel is best for them, but I would think we have created a good environment and I hope things are still good. As far as I know, things are.”

Fisch created a hole as the receivers and quarterbacks coach when he left to become UCLA's offensive coordinator last week. Hamilton has coached both positions in the past, including both for Harbaugh at Stanford from 2010-12. The 42-year-old Hamilton attended Howard University and, with the exception of those years at Stanford, has worked in the NFL from 2003 to the present.

Though Harbaugh also works with the quarterbacks, adding someone who has worked with the passing game at the NFL level, as Hamilton did as Andrew Luck's offensive coordinator in Indianapolis from 2013-15, was something he appreciated with Fisch.

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