JACKSONVILLE—Jax State Head Football Coach Charles Kelly has hired Deshaun Davis as the Gamecocks' linebackers coach.
 
Davis has spent the last two seasons coaching linebackers at North Alabama. Last season, freshman Josh Anglin was named to the Stats Perform FCS All-America team under Davis's tutelage after making 81 tackles with seven for loss. Additionally, Jackson Bratton was second in the United Athletic Conference in tackles for loss.  
 
Prior to UNA, Davis was a graduate assistant at UCF.
 
As a player, the Prichard native was a First-Team All-SEC linebacker at Auburn in 2018 and earned an invitation to the Reese's Senior Bowl and was a quarterfinalist for the Lott Impact Trophy.
 
Davis was drafted in the sixth round of the 2019 NFL Draft by the Cincinnati Bengals and also spent time with the Jacksonville Jaguars and Philadelphia Eagles as well as the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League.