A former LSU player and staff member has joined the Alabama staff.

The Crimson Tide has hired August Mangin as an analyst, according to sources.

The 31-year old Mangin was a fullback at LSU from 2005-09 and later worked for the Tigers in 2012 and 2013, helping with LSU's special teams.

Mangin spent the last four seasons as the special teams coordinator at Northwestern State, where he had previously worked as the team's tight ends coach in 2011.

"August is a young guy who makes an impression on you," former Northwestern State coach Jay Thomas said when Mangin was hired in 2014. "When I was here as an assistant and he was a graduate assistant (in 2011), you knew he had something special about him. He went back to LSU and really progressed as a coach. Coach Miles didn't want to lose him, and they made a great effort to keep him in Baton Rouge, but the opportunity we have here was fortunately good enough for him to come back on board with the Demons. He's going to develop into a rising star in our business."

Matt Zenitz is an Alabama beat writer for the Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @mzenitz.