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Dick Harmon: BYU's Harvey Unga to assist Jamaal Williams' attempt to break his rushing record

New BYU football coach Kalani Sitake has added the school's all-team leading rusher to his staff as a graduate assistant coach. That puts Harvey Unga in a unique situation to help supervise the dismantling of his remarkable rushing record.

“It’s not even the football part of it, it’s being around these kids that I love and mentoring them and coaching. It’s been one of the most fun things I can do.”

Harvey Unga will have the unique vantage point of watching his all-time BYU rushing record being broken — if Jamaal Williams stays healthy.

One of the most bruising, physical running backs in Utah college history, Unga had a brief NFL career with the Chicago Bears and Jacksonville Jaguars, but is now a graduate assistant coach for BYU under new head coach Kalani Sitake.