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Kansas State football coach Collin Klein adds co-defensive coordinator
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- Kansas State football coach Collin Klein adds co-defensive coordinator
MANHATTAN — Kansas State football coach Collin Klein hired a second veteran assistant coach to contribute to the Wildcats' defensive staff.
Marcus Woodson has been hired by K-State, the school announced on Monday, Dec. 22 . He's spent the last three seasons on staff at Arkansas , serving as the Razorbacks' co-defensive coordinator.
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For the Wildcats, Woodson will serve as a co-defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach . He will assist new defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach Jordan Peterson.
"Marcus is a great addition to our defensive staff," Klein said in a release . "He is of high character, hard working and a winner. I am excited for him to help lead our defense and develop our secondary."
Woodson joins Klein's staff in Manhattan with 21 years of coaching experience. He worked with Peterson at Fresno State in 2014 and 2015.
Other coaching stops for Woodson include Florida State , Auburn, Memphis, Charleston Southern and Millsaps College. He's had a defensive backs coach label for his entire career, until serving as Arkansas' co-defensive coordinator over the last three years.
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Marcus Woodson coaching history
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2005-08, Millsaps College (Defensive Backs)
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2009-11, Charleston Southern (Defensive Backs/Recruiting Coordinator)
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2012-13, Charleston Southern (Defensive Backs/Defensive Pass Game Coordinator/Recruiting Coordinator)
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2014-15, Fresno State (Defensive Backs)
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2016-17, Memphis (Defensive Backs)
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2018, Auburn (Defensive Backs)
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2019, Auburn (Defensive backs/Recruiting Coordinator)
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2020-22, Florida State (Defensive Backs/Defensive Pass Game Coordinator)
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2023-25, Arkansas (Co-Defensive Coordinator)
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2026, K-State (Co-Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs)
Wyatt D. Wheeler covers Kansas State athletics for the USA TODAY Network and Topeka Capital-Journal. You can follow him on X at @WyattWheeler_, contact him at 417-371-6987 or email him at wwheeler@gannett.com
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