Tennessee has plucked a full-time assistant coach at the Football Championship Subdivision level and added him to its football staff.

Shelton Felton, the outside linebackers coach and assistant head coach at UT Chattanooga, has joined the Vols as a quality control analyst, Tennessee confirmed to GoVols247 on Monday morning.

Football Scoop first reported the move.

Felton has two connections to Tennessee's current staff. He played for defensive line coach Tracy Rocker at Troy (1999-2002). Felton also spent two seasons more recently as the defensive line coach at Colquitt County High School in Moultrie, Ga., where Rush Propst, who hired Tennessee coach Jeremy Pruitt and defensive coordinator Kevin Sherrer to his staff at Hoover High School in Alabama more than a decade ago, has been the head coach since 2008.

Like many coaches on Tennessee's staff, Felton has extensive experience coaching in the high school ranks.

Felton began his coaching career as a linebackers coach at Crisp County High School in Georgia for five seasons, and he returned there after his stint at Colquitt County to be the head coach. Crisp County won just three games his first season there in 2015, but won a school-record 13 games in 2016. Felton was the defensive coordinator at Dooley County High School for three seasons (2010-12) between his first Crisp County stint and his stop at Colquitt County.

Chattanooga coach Tom Arth hired Felton to his initial staff when he was tabbed to replace Russ Huesman following the 2016 season, and though the Mocs struggled last season, their defense was one of the best at the FCS level.

The Mocs led the Southern Conference in multiple defensive categories and ranked 25th nationally in total defense (326.4 yards per game) in 2017.

Felton was elevated to assistant head coach after the 2017 season.

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Tennessee's media guide for the 2018 season included eight quality control analysts, but the program's official website currently includes only seven with former Alabama defensive lineman DJ Pettway excluded.

Pettway left Tennessee on Aug. 6, according to the University's online directory.

Felton joins a staff of quality control analysts including former Tennessee running back Montario Hardesty, former Pittsburgh quarterback Tino Sunseri and former Alabama defensive lineman Brandon Deaderick. Bert Biffani and Sunseri joined the staff from Florida State, while Carter Blount followed Pruitt to Tennessee from Alabama. Vince Lewis, who previously worked at Western Kentucky and Purdue, and Kevin O'Brien, who was at Colorado State, round out the quality control analysts on Tennessee's staff.

Tennessee's support staff also includes former Georgia, Florida State and Los Angeles Rams assistant coach John Lilly, former Tennessee linebacker Kevin Simon and Joe Osovet, who was one of the top head coaches and offensive minds at the junior college level.