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Huskers Reportedly Set To Hire John Butler To Coach Secondary


Nebraska fans were dealt a major surprise Friday evening at 6 p.m. when it was reported and later confirmed that Husker defensive backs coach and pass game coordinator, Evan Cooper, had resigned from his position.

About 13 hours later, it’s being reported Nebraska has its next DBs coach.

At 7:01 a.m. on Saturday, ESPN college football senior writer Pete Thamel reported Nebraska will hire former Buffalo Bills secondary coach John Butler to replace Cooper.

Butler has spent the past 10 seasons in the NFL with the Bills and Houston Texans. He coached the Bills’ defensive backs for the past six seasons and the Texans’ DBs before that, from 2014-2017.

Before his time with the Texans, Butler was in the Big Ten coaching at Penn State. He held the role of DBs coach in 2012 and was the Nittany Lions’ defensive coordinator/DBs coach in 2013.

There’s a connection between Nebraska’s general manager, Sean Padden, and Butler — they were both at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., at the same time in 1995 and 1996, when Butler was as the DC/DBs coach and Padden was a player.



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