Auburn football coach Bryan Harsin is set to promote assistant head coach/linebackers coach Jeff Schmedding to defensive coordinator with Derek Mason planning to leave for other coaching opportunities, sources confirmed to ESPN.
Schmedding came with Harsin from Boise State, where Schmedding was Harsin's defensive coordinator during the 2019 and 2020 seasons. Mason, the former head coach at Vanderbilt, was at Auburn for just one season. Sources told ESPN he plans to explore other coaching opportunities, both in college and the NFL.
On3.com and AuburnUndercover.com both reported earlier that Mason was expected to leave Auburn and that Schmedding was expected to be his replacement, among other changes on the Tigers' defensive staff.