{"id":378626,"date":"2025-12-31T04:06:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378626\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T04:06:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T04:06:08","slug":"source-uab-set-to-name-todd-grantham-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/378626\/","title":{"rendered":"Source: UAB set to name Todd Grantham defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adam RittenbergDec 30, 2025, 08:31 PM ET<\/p>\n

Close<\/a>College football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.<\/p>\n

UAB<\/a> is expected to hire veteran defensive coordinator Todd Grantham, a source confirmed to ESPN, as new coach Alex Mortensen compiles his staff.<\/p>\n

Grantham began the 2025 season at Oklahoma State<\/a> but was fired after just four games<\/a>, not long after the team fired head coach Mike Gundy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/p>\n

He has coached extensively in the Southeast, making coordinator stops at Georgia<\/a>, Florida<\/a> and Mississippi State<\/a>. He served as a defensive analyst for Alabama<\/a> in 2022, when Mortensen also worked as an analyst under coach Nick Saban.<\/p>\n

On3 first reported UAB’s expected hire of Grantham.<\/p>\n

Grantham, 59, has made college stops at Louisville<\/a>, Michigan State<\/a> and Virginia Tech<\/a>, his alma mater, and worked for five NFL teams, most recently as New Orleans Saints<\/a> defensive coordinator in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, UAB promoted Mortensen<\/a> to the permanent head coach role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adam RittenbergDec 30, 2025, 08:31 PM ET CloseCollege football reporter; joined ESPN in 2008. Graduate of Northwestern University.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378627,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[436],"tags":[49,48,514,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-378626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nfl","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}