2024 LSU Football Staff

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Another hire made by Kelly. 
 

LSU will have a pair of new offensive play-callers in up-and-coming staffers Joe Sloanand Cortez Hankton. To help out that group, it seems Brian Kelly is bringing in an industry veteran.

The Tigers are reportedly set to hire Ohio State offensive analyst Todd Fitch to the same position, where he’ll work with LSU’s quarterback room. The news was first reported by The Advocate’s Wilson Alexander.

Fitch has spent the last three seasons with the Buckeyes after a stint at Vanderbilt, where he was the offensive coordinator and later interim head coach during the 2020 season.

The 60-year-old has been a journeyman assistant with a number of programs dating back to 1986, and that includes a stint working with Sloan at Louisiana Tech, where they were co-offensive coordinators together in 2019 before Fitch left for Nashville.

 

Fitch also coached in the SEC at South Carolina from 1999-03, and he’s 0-1 in his career as a head coach.

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LSU added Adam Kleffner as an offensive analyst. He was at Illinois the last three seasons working with the offensive line.

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Adam Kleffner spent three seasons as an offensive analyst at Illinois in from 2021-23 during Bret Bielema's first three seasons as head coach. He joined the Fighting Illini from Stephen F. Austin, where he spent the 2020 season as an offensive assistant.

Kleffner helped Illinois to an 8-5 record in 2022, the Illini's first 8-win season in 15 years. Illinois ranked in the AP Top 25 for five straight weeks, reaching as high as No. 14, and were ranked in the College Football Playoff rankings for the first time in school history. The offensive line was one of the most dominant position groups for the Illini, as Illinois' offensive line was named a Joe Moore Award finalist for the first time in program history. All five starters on the offensive line earned All-Big Ten honors and RT Alex Palczewski was the first tackle in Illinois history to earn a first-team All-American selection. The offensive line also paved the way for running back Chase Brown, who ranked fourth in the nation in rushing and was Illinois' first ever Doak Walker Award finalist. 

Kleffner helped coach one of the most veteran offensive line groups in the nation in 2021, including All-Big Ten performers Doug Kramer (second team), Vederian Lowe (honrable mention), and Alex Palczewski (honorable mention). The group paved the way for Chase Brown to be Illinois' 14th 1,000-yard rusher in program history and pull off ranked road wins at #7 Penn State and #20 Minnesota. The season-defining win at Penn State was fueled by the offensive line, as Brown rushed for 223 yards - the most ever by an opponent at Beaver Stadium - and freshman Josh McCray had another 142 rushing yards, the most ever by an Illini true freshman against a top-25 opponent. For the season, the Illini run blocking was graded #14 in the nation according to Pro Football Focus. 

Kleffner was at Stephen F. Austin for one year after serving as an assistant offensive line coach for the Dallas Cowboys in 2019. The Cowboys 2019 offensive line featured Pro Bowl LT Tyron Smith, C Travis Frederick, and RG Zack Martin.

Kleffner previously worked as an offensive quality control/analyst at Missouri in 2018 and four seasons at his alma mater Portland State in various offensive coaching positions. He was a quality control coach at Portland State from 2012-13, then left coaching for the business world, before rejoining Portland State as a graduate assistant in 2016, then offensive line coach in 2017.

Kleffner lettered four years at Portland state (2008-11) and made 20 career starts on the offensive line with the Vikings, including most of his final two seasons. He earned a degree in business management at Portland State.

Years	University/Organization	Position
2021-23	Illinois	Offensive Analyst
2020	Stephen F. Austin	Offensive Assistant (OL)
2019	Dallas Cowboys	Assistant Offensive Line Coach
2018	Missouri	Offensive Quality Control/Analyst
2017	Portland State	Offensive Line
2016	Portland State	Graduate Assistant
2012-13	Portland State	Quality Control

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LSU continues to build up its off-field football staff, and the program has recently added a pair of analysts who will work on the defensive side of the ball: Jermauria Rascoand Jack Witte.

Rasco’s name should be a familiar one for LSU fans as he was a defensive end for the Tigers from 2011-14 prior to a brief playing career in the NFL. He began his coaching career at Texas A&M in 2017 and spent the next three seasons as an analyst at Arizona.

Since 2021, he has worked at Louisiana-Lafayette, where he was a player development coordinator under Billy Napier and later Michael Desormeaux.

 

Witte, meanwhile, follows new defensive coordinator Blake Baker from Missouri, where he was a defensive graduate assistant. The Covington, Louisiana, native was also previously a graduate assistant at Tulane and Northwestern State.