{"id":182816,"date":"2026-02-27T11:20:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:20:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182816\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T11:20:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T11:20:22","slug":"utep-promotes-kyle-beyer-to-defensive-coordinator-linebackers-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/182816\/","title":{"rendered":"UTEP promotes Kyle Beyer to defensive coordinator, linebackers coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso has promoted Kyle Beyer to defensive coordinator and will coach the linebackers.<\/p>\n<p>Beyer first joined the Miners\u2019 coaching staff in 2024 as the lead defensive analyst. <\/p>\n<p>Before coming to UTEP, he served as the defensive coordinator at Roosevelt University and Indiana Wesleyan.<\/p>\n<p>Beyer takes over a defensive unit that ranked fifth in Conference USA last season, allowing 391.3 yards per game.<\/p>\n<p>The Miners are set to open spring ball next month.<\/p>\n<p>RECOMMENDED: <a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sports\/running-131-miles-at-the-2026-el-paso-marathon-texas-tx-5k?src=link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Running 13.1 miles at the 2026 El Paso Marathon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kfoxtv.com\/sign-up\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sign up<\/a> to receive the top interesting stories from in and around our community once daily in your inbox. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EL PASO, TEXAS (KFOX14\/CBS4) \u2014 The University of Texas at El Paso has promoted Kyle Beyer to defensive&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[138,140,139],"class_list":["post-182816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-el-paso","tag-el-paso","tag-el-paso-headlines","tag-el-paso-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}