Montario Hardesty has left Jeremy Pruitt's support staff at Tennessee for a position on Tyson Helton's coaching staff at Western Kentucky, a source confirmed to USA TODAY NETWORK - Tennessee on Tuesday.

VolQuest.com reported that Hardesty will be Helton's running backs coach.

Helton was Tennessee's offensive coordinator for one season before accepting the WKU head coaching position last week.

Hardesty spent the 2018 season as an offensive quality control coach at UT. The former Vols running back rushed for 2,391 yards during his Tennessee career, culminating in a 1,345-yard senior season in 2009.

In 2017, Hardesty worked on his former coach Lane Kiffin's staff at Florida Atlantic as an assistant strength and conditioning coach. That was after he worked three years as the running backs coach and special teams coordinator at Norfolk State, an FCS school.