Report: UCLA hires running backs, offensive line coaches

UCLA is reportedly set to hire former Carolina Panther and UCLA running back DeShaun Foster to fill the team's vacant running back coach position. (Streeter Lecka, Getty Images)

UCLA is reportedly set to hire former Carolina Panther and UCLA running back DeShaun Foster to fill the team’s vacant running back coach position.
(Streeter Lecka, Getty Images)

UCLA will hire former Bruin running back DeShaun Foster as its running backs coach and former NFL offensive lineman Hank Fraley as its offensive line coach, according to Bruin Report Online late Friday night..

Sources also told BRO that quarterbacks coach Marques Tuiasosopo will leave Westwood to take the same position at Cal under new head coach Justin Wilcox

Foster led the Bruins in rushing three out of his four years in Westwood from 1998-2001. As a senior, he led the conference in rushing with 1,109 rushing yards in only eight games. He was drafted in the second round of the 2002 NFL draft by the Carolina Panthers. The six-year NFL veteran spent the past year coaching running backs at Texas Tech.

Fraley, an 11-year NFL offensive lineman with the Philadelphia Eagles, Cleveland Browns and St. Louis Rams, will fill Adrian Klemm‘s former position. Before becoming an assistant offensive line coach with the Minnesota Vikings in 2014, the 39-year-old Fraley coached the offensive line at San Diego (2012) and San Jose State (2013).

Tuiasosopo’s position on the revamped coaching staff was up in the air after the hiring of Jedd Fisch, who in addition to his role as the offensive coordinator took the position of quarterbacks coach. Tuiasosopo, who signed a two-year contract with UCLA prior to last season, was slated to make $485,000 for the 2017 season. The former Washington quarterback worked under Wilcox, who took the Cal job this week, when the pair coached for Steve Sarkisian at UW in 2013.