Report: Alabama to hire Baylor's Christian Robinson as new OLB coach

Alabama isn’t wasting any time finding a replacement for defensive assistant William Inge. Minutes after reports surfaced that Inge was headed to Tennessee, ESPN reported that Alabama is set to hire Baylor’s Christian Robinson as its new outside linebackers coach. Inge was never hired by Alabama but was originally set to follow first-year head coach Kalen DeBoer from Washington before joining the Volunteers

Robinson spent the past season coaching inside linebackers at Baylor. There he helped develop Matt Jones, who earned All-Big 12 honorable mention honors, leading the team with 82 tackles and 11.5 tackles for a loss.

Robinson has plenty of experience in the SEC, coaching linebackers at Auburn (2022) and Florida (2018-21) after serving as a graduate assistant at Mississippi State (2017), Ole Miss (2015-16) and Georgia (2013-14).

During his time at Ole Miss, Robinson worked under then-defensive Dave Wommack, who is the father of first-year Alabama defensive coordinator Kane Wommack.

Robinson is the second Baylor assistant set to join Alabama. Earlier Monday, it was reported that newly-hired Baylor offensive line coach Chris Kapilovic is set to take on the same role with the Crimson Tide. Kapilovic was hired by the Bears in December.

OC/QB — Nick Sheridan (Washington)

Co-OC/WR — JaMarcus Shephard (Washington)

RB — Robert Gillespie (Alabama)

OL — Chris Kapilovic (Baylor)

TE — Bryan Ellis (Georgia Southern)

DC — Kane Wommack (South Alabama)

Co-DC/DB — Maurice Linquist (Buffalo)

Co-DC/DB — Colin Hitschler (Wisconsin)

DL — Freddie Roach (Alabama)

OLB — Christian Robinson (Baylor)