Mississippi State defensive line coach Brian Baker has left the Bulldog football program and is expected to accept a role on Alabama’s on-field coaching staff barring an unforeseen occurrence, BamaOnLine has learned. FootballScoop.com was first to report the expected coaching hire.

A native of Baltimore, Md., Baker has been with the Bulldogs since 2016. He is coming off his third season in Starkville, Miss., and first on Joe Moorhead’s staff. He mentored defensive linemen Jeffery Simmons and Montez Sweat, who were both All-SEC selections this past season. Sweat was second in the SEC in sacks (11.5) while Simmons was fourth in tackles for loss (17.0).

Prior to that, he spent the 1996-2014 seasons coaching for eight different NFL teams, working with either the defensive line or outside linebackers at the professional level. Baker coached eight Pro Bowlers during that span, including the likes of DeMarcus Ware and Julius Peppers.

He was the defensive coordinator at Georgia Tech in 1995.

It’s worth noting that first-year defensive line coach Craig Kuligowski is still a member of Alabama’s coaching staff, but with this news, that doesn’t look like it will be the case for the 2019-20 season.

The hire of Baker would give the Crimson Tide seven new assistant coaches this offseason, although expected hires of Steve Sarkisian, Kyle Flood, Sal Sunseri, Charles Kelly, Charles Huff and Holmon Wiggins have not yet been publically announced by Nick Saban or Alabama. Huff also coached Mississippi State in 2018, serving as running backs coach and run game coordinator.

Coordinators Mike Locksley (Maryland) and Tosh Lupoi (Cleveland Browns) and assistants Dan Enos (Miami), Josh Gattis (Michigan) and Brent Key (Georgia Tech) have landed jobs elsewhere.

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