Newly hired football coach Nick Hill is bringing back an alumnus to coach his safeties, he said Tuesday.

Marty Rodgers, who was a safety for SIU from 2006 to 2009, is the fourth coach added to the roster after Hill kept three coaches and a graduate assistant from former coach Dale Lennon’s staff.

Rodgers served as the safeties coach at North Dakota for the prior two seasons. The team was 12-11 overall and 8-8 in the Big Sky Conference. Last season his starting safeties finished second and fourth on the team in tackles.

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The former Dawg is 23rd in SIU history with 238 tackles and was a second-team all-conference selection in 2008. Rodgers is also the older brother of Boo Rodgers, who graduated in 2014.

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