Five things to know about Bert Watts

2. Collegiate coaching: Watts coached college football teams for 14 seasons, which included a stop as special teams coordinator and outside linebackers coach at Auburn University in 2021. He coached linebackers at Memphis in 2020, with the Tigers earning top 20 Division I FBS rankings in red zone defense, turnovers forced, and fumbles recovered.

Watts worked at Fresno State for three years, coaching linebackers in 2017 and moving to the defensive coordinator job from 2018-19. He’d previously served as defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at the University of California-Davis from 2013-16.