By Matt Moscona
Eric Wolford will join Lane Kiffin’s staff at LSU.
LouisianaSports.net has learned that Wolford is in Baton Rouge and working at LSU’s football operations building. He brings nearly three decades of offensive line coaching experience.
Wolford has spent the last two seasons as offensive line coach at Kentucky. He also worked for the Wildcats in 2021. Between those two stints on the Bluegrass, Wolford was offensive line coach at Alabama in 2022 and 2023 in Nick Saban’s final two seasons. He spent three seasons at South Carolina from 2017-20 meaning he’s been a coach in the SEC for nine consecutive seasons.
Prior to that he spent two years as offensive line coach for the San Francisco 49ers. He has worked exclusively as an offensive line coach since 1997 when he was at South Florida.
LSU has finished last in the SEC in rushing offense the past two seasons.
John Garrison has been Ole Miss’s offensive line coach for Kiffin since 2023. He did not fly to Baton Rouge Wednesday with a number of the offensive staffers, and Ole Miss announced Tuesday that Garrison would coach the Rebel offensive line in the College Football Playoff.
LSU Staff Update:
Eric Wolford is joining Kiffin’s staff. 30 year coaching vet with NFL experience. Spent the last 9 seasons coaching SEC OL at South Carolina, Kentucky, Alabama and then back to UK for the last two seasons.
Kiffin is also bringing Dwike Wilson from Ole Miss as…
— Matt Moscona (@MattMoscona) December 3, 2025
LouisianaSports.net has also learned that Dwike Wilson has been brought on as Director of Recruiting. He served in the same role at Ole Miss under Kiffin. Wilson is a Mississippi native who worked at the junior college level before a stint as director of player personnel at Indiana. He worked for now Alabama defensive coordinator Kane Wommack at South Alabama. From there he joined the staff at Southern Miss to coach cornerbacks. Kiffin hired him in August of this year to work on staff at Ole Miss.
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