Eleven days after Auburn hired former Tigers defensive striker Tracy Rocker as a defensive line coach, an NFL team appears to have launched and captured him. According In a Twitter report on Sunday afternoon by Yahoo Sports’ Pete Thamel, the Philadelphia Eagles “chose” Rocker as a defensive line coach. In a tweet, Thamel added that “Rocker” is expected to leave Auburn and go to Philadelphia under the command of a newly hired defensive coordinator. Jonathan Gannon and head coach Nick Sirianni.
The Tigers hired Rocker, 54, from South Carolina a week and four days ago. Just three days ago, Auburn’s new coach Bryan Harsin opened with a “huge” impact of having former players like Rocker on board the Tigers team.
“I can feel it in the conversations I had with (running back coach) Cadillac (Williams), with (cornerback) coach (Zac) Etheridge, with coach Rocker,” said Harsin last Thursday in a conference call. with former Auburn players. according to Mark Murphy of Auburn Undercover, an affiliate of 247Sports. “You feel it. I know that as a Boise State (alumni), I know the pride of playing at Boise State. I know the pride of being a coach, and being part of that program. I understand that, I appreciate it. this, I embrace this.
“These three in particular, with how close they are to our players, there is no doubt about their pride in Auburn football. There is no doubt that these guys are going to make an impact with our current players now on what that it means being a Tiger – without a doubt. “
This was set to be Rocker’s second pass as a defensive line coach at Auburn, after initially doing so with Tigers in 2009-10. The Gamecocks, who fired Will Muschamp after four years and recently hired Shane Beamer, kept Rocker on a two-year contract for $ 525,000 a year.
Prior to South Carolina, Rocker was the 2017-19 Tennessee defensive line coach.
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Early in his career, he was a college-level defensive line coach with West Alabama (1994-96), Troy State (1997-01), Cincinnati (2002), Arkansas (2002), Arkansas (2003-07) and Ole Miss (2009).