{"id":861730,"date":"2026-04-08T22:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T22:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T22:45:16","slug":"former-nfl-offensive-lineman-joining-west-alabama-football-coaching-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/861730\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NFL offensive lineman joining West Alabama football coaching staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">LIVINGSTON, Ala. (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wbrc.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WBRC<\/a>) &#8211; A former NFL offensive lineman is joining the West Alabama (UWA) football coaching staff this spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">UWA athletics announced the hiring of Kaleb Johnson Wednesday as the football program\u2019s new offensive line coach and run game coordinator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Johnson comes to Livingston after having spent the last three years as an offensive line\/quality control coach at the University of Florida. Before Florida, Johnson spent three seasons at his alma mater, Rutgers, as the program\u2019s strength and conditioning assistant and offensive line performance liaison. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Before his coaching career, Johnson played at Rutgers from 2011-2014 and then spent five years in the NFL, playing for the Bears, Browns, Cardinals, Chiefs, Eagles, Ravens, and Vikings.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">UWA says Johnson is on campus and is set to coach the Tigers in spring ball.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Get news alerts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.apple.com\/us\/app\/wbrc-fox6-news\/id449660326\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Apple App Store<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.raycom.wbrc&amp;hl=en_US&amp;gl=US\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google Play Store<\/a> or subscribe to our email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrc.com\/newsletter\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WBRC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LIVINGSTON, Ala. (WBRC) &#8211; A former NFL offensive lineman is joining the West Alabama (UWA) football coaching staff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":861731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2338,24973,52,380,1301,2391,7,20852,21454,20851,21453,2388,274,34381,117259,117260,117261,20853,2500,10055,4726,7095,71161,117263,20850,21457,21458,21456,21455,21452,30538,117262],"class_list":{"0":"post-861730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-al","9":"tag-ala","10":"tag-alabama","11":"tag-florida","12":"tag-florida-gators","13":"tag-florida-gators-football","14":"tag-football","15":"tag-fox-6","16":"tag-fox-6-news","17":"tag-fox6","18":"tag-fox6-news","19":"tag-gators","20":"tag-kaleb-johnson","21":"tag-livingston","22":"tag-livingston-al","23":"tag-livingston-ala","24":"tag-livingston-alabama","25":"tag-myfoxal","26":"tag-rutgers","27":"tag-rutgers-football","28":"tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights","29":"tag-rutgers-scarlet-knights-football","30":"tag-university-of-west-alabama","31":"tag-university-of-west-alabama-football","32":"tag-wbrc","33":"tag-wbrc-6-news","34":"tag-wbrc-6news","35":"tag-wbrc-fox-6-news","36":"tag-wbrc-fox6-news","37":"tag-wbrc-news","38":"tag-west-alabama","39":"tag-west-alabama-football"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=861730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/861730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/861731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=861730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=861730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=861730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}