Brad White will fill 10th assistant coaching position

Cats Illustrated can confirm a report by KSR's Matt Jones that Brad White of the Indianapolis Colts will be joining Mark Stoops' staff in Lexington to coach Kentucky's linebackers.

Cats Illustrated can also confirm the report by Jon Hale of the Courier-Journal, which indicated Dean Hood will be helping to coach Kentucky's defensive backs.

Kentucky's defensive backs struggled for much of 2017 and Hood made an instant impact coaching UK's linebackers and especially the UK special teams unit. There has been no indication that Hood's role with the special teams unit will change.

White served as the Indianapolis Colts' outside linebackers coach in his previous stint.

He played football for Wake Forest from 2002-2004 and was a graduate assistant with the Demon Deacons during the 2007-2008 seasons. He was Murray State's safeties coach in 2009 and then coached the inside linebackers at the Air Force Academy in 2010-2011. He was first a defensive quality control assistant with the Colts in 2012-2013 before being promoted to the assistant linebackers coach in the organization. He has been the Colts' outside linebackers coach for three seasons.

Cats Illustrated was told by a source that White was the pick because of his extensive background coaching on the defensive side of the ball, his NFL pedigree and the work he is capable of doing not only with Kentucky's senior-laden linebacker unit in 2018, but also with some of the younger linebackers coming up through the ranks behind those players.