Patrick Suddes will replace Casey Woods at Auburn. Patrick Suddes will leave Arizona State and be named director of player personnel on Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn's staff, AuburnUndercover has confirmed.

Suddes has a long history of accomplishment in football administration. Before moving to Arizona State for the past two seasons, he spent the 2013 season as director of player personnel for Mack Brown at Texas and spent six years working for Nick Saban as associate director of football operations at Alabama.

“Patrick is a real star in the recruiting business,” Brown said when Suddes moved to Arizona State in 2014. “He’s unbelievably organized, thorough and tireless. He did a tremendous job at Alabama, reshaped our recruiting efforts at Texas.”

Suddes spent two seasons under Saban with the Miami Dolphins. He was a defensive quality control assistant in 2005 and an offensive quality control in 2006.

A 2005 graduate of Alabama, Suddes began his career in 2004 as a recruiting intern at LSU.

Suddes replaces Casey Woods, who resigned in December to accept an on-field position at UAB.

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