{"id":83458,"date":"2025-12-14T23:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83458\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T23:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T23:24:07","slug":"florida-eyeing-auburns-marcus-davis-kentuckys-chris-collins-as-assistant-coaches-under-jon-sumrall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/83458\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida eyeing Auburn\u2019s Marcus Davis, Kentucky\u2019s Chris Collins as assistant coaches under Jon Sumrall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"image-credits\">Image Credit: <a href=\"\" target=\"_blank\">UAA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>As the Florida Gators continue filling out their on-field staff under new head coach Jon Sumrall, there are still various key positions remaining unaccounted. Among those are coaches who will work directly with playmakers on both sides of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Florida is targeting Auburn\u2019s Marcus Davis as wide receivers coach and Kentucky\u2019s Chris Collins as safeties coach, according to CBS Sports\u2019 Matt Zenitz.<\/p>\n<p>Davis, a native Floridian who was a four-year wideout for the Tigers, began his off-field career at his alma mater where he oversaw player personnel and development before working as an offensive analyst. He then moved to Florida State in an off-field role prior to nabbing his first on-field job at Hawaii. Davis then took over the wide receiver room at Georgia Southern before being hired back by Auburn ahead of the 2023 season.<\/p>\n<p>Based on his work history, Davis\u2019 path has not crossed with anyone on the Gators\u2019 still-growing staff; however, he has SEC coaching and Sunshine State recruiting experience, landing two of the league\u2019s top pass catchers in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Collins has coached under new Florida defensive coordinator Brad White for the last five seasons at Kentucky, spending the past two years as his co-defensive coordinator. It has been a quick rise for him with the Wildcats, his first Power Four coaching job, after serving as assistant safeties coach and recruiting coordinator at Georgia State (2017-20).<\/p>\n<p>Auburn and Kentucky each went 5-7 this season.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gators coaching staff, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Head coach \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlygators.com\/11\/30\/2025\/florida-to-hire-jon-sumrall-of-tulane-as-football-coach-after-gators-fail-in-pursuit-of-lane-kiffin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Jon Sumrall<\/a> | Grade: B-<br \/>Defensive coordinator \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlygators.com\/12\/02\/2025\/florida-gators-hire-brad-white-defensive-coordinator-jon-sumrall-kentucky\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Brad White<\/a> | Grade: B-<br \/>Offensive coordinator \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlygators.com\/12\/04\/2025\/florida-gators-buster-faulkner-offensive-coordinator-jon-sumrall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Buster Faulkner<\/a> | Grade: A<br \/>Defensive line coach \u2014 Gerald Chatman | retained<br \/>Offensive line coach \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlygators.com\/12\/12\/2025\/florida-gators-phil-trautwein-offensive-line-coach-jon-sumrall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Phil Trautwein<\/a> | Grade: A<br \/>Defensive backs coach \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.onlygators.com\/12\/12\/2025\/florida-brandon-harris-defensive-backs-coach-jon-sumrall-brad-white\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"\">Brandon Harris<\/a> | Grade: B<\/p>\n<p>Additional grades will be added once coaches are officially hired or widely reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image Credit: UAA As the Florida Gators continue filling out their on-field staff under new head coach Jon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83459,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26667,28,30,29,10712],"class_list":{"0":"post-83458","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-brad-white","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-florida-headlines","11":"tag-florida-news","12":"tag-jon-sumrall"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83458"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83458\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}