Urban Meyer has poached offensive analyst Kyle Caskey off the LSU Staff!

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Report: Urban Meyer Hiring Notable College Football Staffer

 JACKSONVILLE, FL - AUGUST 14: Jacksonville Jaguars Head Coach Urban Meyer looks on before the game between the Cleveland Browns and the Jacksonville Jaguars on August 14, 2021 at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Fl. (Photo by David Rosenblum/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) 

With just a few more weeks until the 2021 regular season kicks off, first-year Jaguarshead coach Urban Meyer is still making additions to his Jacksonville staff. And like himself, this most recent addition comes in with some college football experience.

According to John Brice of FootballScoop.com, Meyer has poached offensive analyst Kyle Caskey off of Ed Orgeron’s LSU staff.

Joining the Tigers’ off-field coaching staff back in May, Caskey wasn’t with the program very long. After just a few months at the college level, the 42-year-old coach is back in the NFL ranks.

Caskey has 11 years of coaching experience in the league — serving nine seasons with the Cincinnati Bengals before taking over as the running backs coach for the Detroit Lions in 2019. He was not retained when the Lions hired new head coach Dan Campbell prior to this coming season.

Before his NFL days, the former Texas A&M walk-on tight end spent several years as an assistant at the college level. Starting off as a grad assistant for UL-Monroe (2004-05), Caskey then went on handle recruiting at Indiana State (2006-08) and quality control at Ole Miss (2009).

Just over a week away from their season opener against UCLA, the Tigers will look to fill the void left by Caskey.

The Jags will take on the Cowboys in their third and final preseason matchup this weekend before heading into their regular season opener on Sep. 12.

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Sources: LSU loses offensive aide to Urban Meyer, Jaguars

• LSU is dealing with the departure of an offensive analyst just three months after joining Ed Orgeron's Tigers' staff.

   

  JOHN BRICE

  5 HOURS AGO

  The NFL giveth … and the NFL taketh away from LSU's coaching staff.

  Sources tell FootballScoop that Kyle Caskey has departed his role as an offensive analyst on Ed Orgeron's Tigers' staff for a position on the staff of first-year Jacksonville Jaguars' coach Urban Meyer.

  For Caskey, it's a return to pro football – where he spent the previous 11 seasons of his coaching career.

  Caskey had broke into the NFL ranks as a quality control coach on Marvin Lewis' Cincinnati Bengals' staff before becoming their full-time running backs coach.

  Then, he landed on Matt Patricia's Detroit Lions' staffs in the same capacity for both the 2019-2020 seasons.

  However, Caskey wasn't retained in the Lions' transition to new coach Dan Campbell, and he joined the LSU staff in late May. Caskey was working with the Tigers' running backs group.

  Now, LSU once again will shift to filling an analyst spot as quickly as possible with its season opener just nine days away at Chip Kelly's UCLA Bruins.

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Every time I see that smug look on the weasel's face I am reminded of how disingenuous he is.

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Sources: LSU filling analyst role with former Texas, UNC staffer

With the season kicking off in six days, LSU is fortifying its offensive staff with a coach who has both Power 5 experience and a history with DJ Mangas.

 

JOHN BRICE

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When LSU somewhat abruptly lost offensive analyst Kyle Caskey roughly a week ago to the NFL's Jacksonville Jaguars, the Tigers did not have long to find a replacement.

They're scheduled to open their season Saturday night at UCLA, which already launched the pivotal fourth year of the Chip Kelly era with 44-10 dismantling of Hawaii on college football's opening weekend.

Sources tell FootballScoop that LSU and coach Ed Orgeron has their next analyst in Mario Acitelli.

Acitelli, currently in his second year as the special teams coordinator and working with tackles and tight ends at Football Championship Subdivision program Elon, is finalizing plans to join the Tigers in an offensive analyst capacity for first-year coordinator Jake Peetz. 

A former All-American player at Appalachian State, Acitelli also has Power 5 experience from a pair of stints on Mack Brown's staffs – for three years at Texas as a graduate assistant and in 2019 at North Carolina as an analyst. Acitelli's body of work also includes five years on staff at William & Mary, including time as the special teams coordinator.

Acitelli has a strong connection to new Tigers' quarterbacks coach DJ Mangas, as the two served several years together on staff at William & Mary. 

The move for LSU continues an offseason of considerable change in Ed Orgeron's Tigers' football program. LSU has new offensive and defensive coordinators in Peetz and Daronte Jones, respectively, as well as Mangas, offensive line coach (Brad Davis), linebackers coach (Blake Baker) and defensive line coach Andre Carter.

Additionally, the Tigers aggressively upgraded their administrative structure in the football program when they nabbed Austin Thomas away from Baylor to return to LSU as the program's general manager. Thomas has employed a structured, NFL-like model and augmented LSU's recruiting efforts with the hiring of Will Redmond among other moves.