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Don’t look now, but Deion Sanders is slowly but surely building perhaps the most accomplished staff in all of college football. Of course, Sanders himself was a superstar at Florida State and a Pro Football Hall of Famer. Defensive line coach Warren Sapp starred at Miami before going on to have a hall of fame pro career as well.
Now, Sanders is bringing in another college and pro superstar to join the staff. Colorado announced late Thursday night that it had hired Marshall Faulk to be the program’s new running backs coach. Faulk was a three-time All-American at San Diego State University before being selected No. 2 overall in the 1994 NFL Draft.
One of the greatest to ever play the game.
Welcome our new Running Backs Coach, Marshall Faulk, to Colorado!#GoBuffs pic.twitter.com/pv2z0SB2w8
— Colorado Buffaloes Football (@CUBuffsFootball) February 7, 2025
He then went on to become a three-time NFL Offensive Player of the Year, an NFL MVP and a Super Bowl champion with the Los Angeles Rams. Faulk was inducted to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2011 and the College Football Hall of Fame in 2017.
Like Sapp, Faulk brings no coaching experience with him to Boulder. But he does bring a wealth of knowledge. And you have to imagine that’s one heck of a recruiting tool for Sanders and co.
Marshall Faulk Comes To Colorado With Questionable Past From TV Days
Faulk does, however, come with a slightly checkered past.
In 2017, he was suspended from his role with NFL Network amid a sexual harassment investigation involving himself and several other coworkers, including Sapp.
“A former executive producer at the National Football League’s TV network and ex-players including Marshall Faulk and Heath Evans allegedly groped and made sexually explicit comments to female colleague Jami Cantor, according to an amended complaint by Cantor, a former employee,” Bloomberg reported at the time.
NFL Network eventually settled a lawsuit with Cantor and did not retain Faulk.