It looks like Kirby Smart has found his man.

Alabama defensive backs coach Mel Tucker is set to be announced as Georgia's new defensive coordinator, per Bruce Feldman at FOXSports. BamaOnline publisher Tim Watts also said such a move would happen earlier this week.

Tucker, 43, spent last season at Alabama, and a decade in the NFL before that. The Cleveland, Ohio native played defensive back at the University of Wisconsin, and got his coaching start as a graduate assistant under Nick Saban at Michigan State. His full-time coaching career began at Miami (Ohio) in 1999 as a defensive backs coach.

He would go on to coach under Saban again at LSU, and was the defensive backs' coach for 2002 national championship team at Ohio State. Tucker reportedly turned down the head coaching position at Wisconsin in 2012.

“First of all, Mel does a great job with the kids,” Alabama defensive coordinator Kirby Smart said in August. “He has a great demeanor. Kids really respect him. They know he’s got a lot of NFL experience, so he comes in very confident. He’s worked with Coach Saban before. He knows all of our terminology, understands it. He’s able to relate to the kids and talk to them about it. He does a really good job as a teacher with the kids.

“He’s helped me tremendously from the perspective of, ‘What are new ways to create turnovers? How did we do it everywhere I’ve been?’ You get somebody with that much experience, with the people he’s coached under and with, it’s very efficient for us as a defense. So we’re able to show, ‘This is how they did it here, this is how they did it here,’ and when you turn on a clip of an NFL drill, eyes pop open a little more. It’s new, it’s new change for the kids. It’s exciting.”

Joining Tucker on the defensive side of the ball will be defensive line coach Tracy Rocker, linebackers coach Kevin Sherrer, and assistant Glenn Schumann. Schumann's role has yet to be outlined, but with Tucker's experience coaching the secondary, Schumann could be in line to coach the inside linebackers.

The addition of Tucker completes Smart's staff at Georgia. The rest of the coaches are offensive coordinator Jim Chaney, running backs coach Dell McGee, wide receivers coach James Coley, tight ends coach and special teams coordinator Shane Beamer, and offensive line coach Sam Pittman.

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