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Wilson Completes Morgan State Football Staff

BALTIMORE, Md. – Morgan State head coach Damon Wilson announced four (4) new members that complete his football staff.
 
Joining the Bears are coaches Tory Woodbury (special teams coordinator/tight ends), Brawley Evans (linebackers), Richard Reddix Jr. (offensive line), and Melvin Coleman (safeties).
  
"We are proud to announce the completion of our football staff," Wilson said. "This is a great group who will not only be able to teach, lead, and recruit our student-athletes at the highest level, but will also be outstanding representatives of the Morgan State University and excellent role models for each member of our program.  We are all excited and motivated as we prepare for the upcoming season."

Here's a quick look at the new assistant coaches:
 
Name: Tory Woodbury
 
Title: Special Teams Coordinator / Tight Ends
 
Coaching Experience: Woodbury, a former HBCU legend and Los Angeles Rams scout/coach, enters his first season as Morgan State's special teams coordinator and tight ends coach. 
 
Woodbury has spent the last five years with the Los Angeles Rams organization, serving as a scout and as a special teams assistant coach. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Rams earlier this year before leaving the organization. 
 
The Winston-Salem, NC native has one of the great stories in HBCU football. After walking on at WSSU he led the program to back-to-back CIAA titles before going on to a pro career. 
 
Woodbury signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2001, spending two seasons with the franchise before getting released. He also had stints with the New Orleans Saints and Buffalo Bills, the Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League, the Cologne Centurions (NFL Europe) and the Arena Football League's New Orleans Voodoo before retiring after the 2006 season.
 
After a short hiatus from football, he started out coaching at the high school level before moving on to Division I-AA Delaware State in 2011. Woodbury remained at that school through 2014, then spent the 2015-17 seasons as an offensive coordinator at Johnson C. Smith University. 
 
In that seven-year span, Woodbury said he juggled his coaching responsibilities with five different internships, including being a minority intern for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2012, a scouting intern for the Cleveland Browns in 2014, a pro scouting intern for the Rams in 2015 and a scouting intern for the Senior Bowl Scouting Academy in 2016. 
 
In 2017 he was brought in as a college scout for the L.A. Rams and he was promoted to assistant special teams coach in 2019. 
 
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Name: Brawley Evans
 
Title: Linebackers
 
Coaching Experience: Evans enters his first season as linebackers coach for the Bears. Evans previously spent eight seasons with the Maryland Terps over two separate stints, where he transitioned to coaching inside linebackers in 2021 after leading the outside linebacker unit in 2020. 

Maryland's pass rush improved substantially in Evans' first year on the defensive coaching staff in 2020, tallying more sacks in only five games than it did in nine Big Ten games the year prior, with 14, the second-best per game mark in the Big Ten. Durell Nchami earned PFF National Defensive Player of the Week honors for his performance against Rutgers where he tallied two strip sacks. 

Evans was a graduate assistant coach at Maryland (2012-13) and served as an analyst for four seasons (2016-19). Between his two stints at Maryland, Evans spent two seasons as the defensive backs coach/recruiting coordinator at Morgan State University.

During his time as a graduate assistant coach at Maryland, Evans assisted the Terps defensive coaches, working primarily with the linebackers, and also assisted in recruiting and scouting opponents.

Prior to his first stint at Maryland, Evans was the defensive backs coach at Our Lady of Good Counsel High School. During his four-year tenure, the Falcons won three straight WCAC championships and ranked nationally in USA Today (2009, 2010 and 2011). His first coaching position came as head junior varsity coach and offensive coordinator at Baltimore Lutheran School in 2008.
 
Before pursuing a career in coaching, the Baltimore native spent two years as an all-conference running back at West Liberty State in West Virginia. He also gained all-conference honors at Southwestern Junior College in Chula Vista, California.  
 
The Baltimore native attended Dundalk High School where he was an all-state running back for the Owls. He earned his degree in criminal justice from West Virginia State. 

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Name: Richard Reddix Jr.
 
Title: Offensive Line
 
Coaching Experience: Reddix enters the 2022 season as offensive line coach at Morgan State. Reddix, who has almost 20 years of coaching experience, previously spent eight seasons as the offensive line coach for the Bowie State Bulldogs. Along with his duties with the football team, he also served as the Bulldogs' head strength and conditioning coach. 
 
Reddix has had three stints as a member of the Bowie State Football program. He was previously there from 1997-2000 and from 2002-2004. During that time he served in many roles; assistant head coach, offensive line coach, tight end coach and recruiting coordinator.
 
Reddix also coached at the College of DuPage (IL) from 2006-2009. He was the offensive line coach and strength and conditioning coach for football. Prior to that, he was an assistant coach at Fort Valley State (Ga.) University (2004-2006) and also had a stop at Montgomery College (MD) for one season (2001).
 
Reddix is a proud alumnus of Bowie State University, earning a Bachelor's of Arts degree in History in 2001. He played offensive line for Bowie State (1995-1996) starting at both center and guard positions.
 
Reddix resides in Silver Spring with his wife Ebony and their four children.  They have two girls Tameia and Dallas and two boys Malachi and Richard III.
 
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Name: Melvin Coleman
 
Title: Safeties
 
Coaching Experience: Coleman enters his first year as an assistant coach for the Bears. He was previously the defensive backs coach at Bowie State. 
 
Coleman is the founder of Stable North Athletics, LCC, a sports performance training business in the Greater Hartford (CT) area working with student-athletes to reach their goals through developing speed, agility, power, strength, technique, quickness and sport specific movement.

Coleman's coaching experience includes defensive backs coach at Suitland (MD) High School (2013), defensive coordinator at Manchester (CT) High School (2008-2012) and assistant defensive backs coach at Towson University (2001-2003).

Coleman was a member of the Morgan State University football team and was named Black College All-American (2000). After earning his Bachelor of Science degree in 2001, Coleman went on to play for the Arena Football League's Norfolk Nighthawks (2003) and Chesapeake Tide of the Continental Indoor Football League (2007).

Coleman is married to Tilea Coleman and they have a son, Maven.
 
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[full coaching bios are available on www.morganstatebears.com]
 
Morgan State  opens the 2022 season at Georgia Southern on Sept. 3.  The home opener is slated for Sept. 17 against Sacred Heart.

 
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ABOUT MORGAN
Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a Carnegie-classified high research (R2) institution offering nearly 140 academic programs leading to degrees from the baccalaureate to the doctorate. As Maryland's Preeminent Public Urban Research University, and the only university to have its entire campus designated as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Morgan serves a multiethnic and multiracial student body and seeks to ensure that the doors of higher education are opened as wide as possible to as many as possible. For more information about Morgan State University, visit www.morgan.edu.
 
 
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