MOBILE, Ala. – Major Applewhite has hired Jerone Steckel as the new defensive line coach for South Alabama Football.
Steckel spent the 2023 and 2024 seasons at Eastern Michigan coaching the program's defensive line. Steckel helped guide the Eagles to six wins and a bowl appearance in 2023. That bowl game was in Mobile's own 68 Ventures Bowl at Hancock Whitney Stadium where South Alabama defeated EMU for the first bowl championship in program history.
Prior to joining the staff at Eastern Michigan, Steckel spent four years at Southeast Missouri State as the defensive line coach.