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Sources: Kentucky Wildcats' Eric Wolford accepts Alabama Crimson Tide OL job with Doug Marrone expected to return to NFL

After just one season at Kentucky, Eric Wolford has accepted the offensive line job at Alabama and will replace Doug Marrone, who's expected to return to the NFL, sources told ESPN.

This will be Wolford's third different SEC school. He also coached South Carolina's offensive line from 2017-20 before joining Mark Stoops' staff at Kentucky last season. Wolford's first SEC coaching stop was in 2009 at South Carolina under Steve Spurrier, and he went from there to Youngstown State as head coach for five seasons from 2010-14

BamaOnLine was first to report that Alabama was targeting Wolford, who also coached in the NFL as the San Francisco 49ers' assistant offensive line coach from 2015-16.