Hugh Freeze is adding another familiar face and Group of 5 assistant coach to Auburn’s support staff.

Vontrell King-Williams, who spent the 2022 season coaching defensive tackles at Eastern Michigan, is joining Auburn’s off-field staff, he announced Wednesday afternoon. King-Williams is expected to serve as a defensive analyst for the Tigers, according to FootballScoop, working on a defensive staff that includes a pair of former Liberty assistants: defensive line coach Jeremy Garrett and linebackers coach Josh Aldridge.

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King-Williams previously spent two seasons working for Freeze at Liberty, where he was a defensive graduate assistant in 2020 and 2021 before taking an on-field position at EMU. It was King-Williams’ second stint at Eastern Michigan after spending two seasons as a defensive graduate assistant and recruiting assistant for the program in 2018 and 2019.

A graduate of UTSA, where he spent his final two seasons in 2015 and 2016 after starting off at Illinois and then going the junior college route, King-Williams got his coaching start as a defensive line intern at his alma mater in 2017.

Tom Green is an Auburn beat reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter @Tomas_Verde.