Eagles defensive assistant Tyler Yelk is leaving the team to become the new safeties coach at the University of Nebraska, Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports reported.
Yelk had been with the Eagles for three seasons but had spent just this past season as a defensive assistant.
Yelk joined the Eagles staff as the assistant to the head coach in 2023 and was given the title of head coach quality control for the Super Bowl season in 2024 before being promoted to defensive assistant.
Before coming to Philadelphia, Yelk coached safeties at Idaho and coached safeties and nickels at Temple before that. He also had stints at Northern Illinois, South Dakota, Western Illinois and Minnesota-Duluth. The job with the Eagles was his first in the NFL.
Earlier this offseason, the Eagles lost defensive backs coach/passing game coordinator Christian Parker to a division rival when the Cowboys hired him to be their new defensive coordinator under Brain Schottenheimer.
To replace Parker, the Eagles promoted former safeties coach Joe Kasper to the role of DBs/passing game coordinator. Kasper returned to the staff in 2024 to coach safeties under Vic Fangio, who took Kasper with him from Philadelphia in 2023.
Over the last month, Fangio contemplated retirement but is expected to return for the 2026 season, his third as Eagles defensive coordinator.