Marshall Faulk
The 52-year-old New Orleans native will return to his home state following his first season coaching college football under fellow Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders at Colorado. Southern, an HBCU in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, dismissed coach Terrence Graves last month after a 1-6 start to the season.
Faulk's decorated career includes NFL MVP honors in 2000, three NFL offensive player of the year awards, and seven Pro Bowl selections. He accumulated 12,279 career rushing yards and 100 touchdowns before entering the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011.
As a student-athlete at San Diego State, Faulk earned two-time All-America honors as a running back and was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017. In 1993, while still a student at San Diego State, Faulk was named an Arthur Ashe Scholar by The EDU Ledger, which recognizes student-athletes who maintain at least a 3.5 GPA while demonstrating excellence in athletics and commitment to their communities.
Speaking to ESPN in August about his transition to college coaching, Faulk acknowledged he had previously turned down coaching opportunities.
"I've been offered jobs," Faulk said. "If it wasn't for Coach Prime, I would not even try this. This wasn't even on my list of things to do in the least way. I put crazy hours in when I played, like player and coach's hours in, to become the student of the game that I was. And when I walked away from it, I couldn't believe how much time I invested into the game."
He spent time as an analyst for NFL Network until 2017 before returning to football with Colorado this season.
