Pro Football Hall of Famer Marshall Faulk has been hired as the new running backs coach at the University of Colorado, becoming the third Hall of Famer to join the coaching staff of the Buffaloes, including head coach Deion Sanders.
The university announced the hire late Thursday. It’s not clear if Faulk has ever coached before. He previously played running back at San Diego State and then went on to fame as an elite running back in the NFL for the Indianapolis Colts and St. Louis Rams.
At Colorado, Faulk joins a staff assembled by Sanders that includes himself as a Pro Football Hall of Famer, along with graduate assistant coach Warren Sapp, another Pro Football Hall of Famer. Both Faulk and Sanders, a former cornerback, were enshrined into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
Faulk, 51, is one of the NFL’s best running backs of all time and a Super Bowl champion with the Rams 25 years ago. He was the No. 2 overall pick in the 1994 NFL draft and was named the 2000 NFL MVP.
After his football career ended in 2006, he worked as an analyst for the NFL Network. But he parted ways with the network after a lawsuit accused him of sexual harassment and groping a wardrobe stylist. The lawsuit made similar allegations against others at the network, including Sapp, before being settled out of court in 2018.
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Faulk recently had been working in the financial field outside of football, according to online records. As the new running backs coach at Colorado, Faulk will be charged with improving a running game that ranked last in the nation in rushing yards per game in 2023 and 2024.
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(This story was updated to add new information.)