Breaking: Auburn hires Porter

Per a source, Auburn has hired North Carolina running backs coach Larry Porter as an offensive assistant, as first-reported by 247Sports.

Porter coached at UNC since 2014.

There he developed Elijah Hood and T.J. Logan into two of the top backs in the ACC.

Porter is known as one of the nation’s elite recruiters.

He was twice, in 2007 and 2009, named as the National Recruiter of the Year by Rivals.com

Prior to that he served one season each as an assistant at Texas and Arizona State.

He also was the head coach at Memphis from 2010-11.

Porter was the Assistant Head Coach at LSU from 2005-09. He also worked as an assistant coach at Oklahoma State and Arkansas State.

It’s still being determined if Porter will coach the running backs and the tight ends or both.

Porter will amp up Auburn’s recruiting efforts in Louisiana, Atlanta and mainly in south Florida where he has tremendous ties.