The Kiffin brothers are reunited once again.
First reported by ESPN’s Chris Low, Ole Miss head coach Lane Kiffin’s brother, Chris Kiffin, is returning to Oxford as an analyst for the Rebels’ football team.
A familiar face to the program, Chris has served on the Ole Miss coaching staff — first as a graduate assistant in 2007, then as defensive line coach from 2012-16.
Chris has also coached alongside his elder sibling in the past. In 2017, he joined Lane’s Florida Atlantic coaching staff as defensive coordinator and linebackers coach ahead of being called up to the NFL’s San Fransisco 49ers.
After two seasons as a pass rush specialist coach in the Bay Area, Chris was called back east to be the Cleveland Browns’ defensive line coach. Ahead of the 2022-23 campaign, the defensive mastermind initially bit on an opportunity to work alongside Lane once more as the Rebels’ co-defensive coordinator and linebackers coach but ultimately returned to the pros after a month in Oxford due to an NFL schedule being more conducive to raising a family.
Chris finished the 2022 season in Cleveland and bolted to Houston when a chance to be the Texans’ linebackers coach in former 49ers colleague DeMeco Ryans’ debut as Houston’s frontman. However, in February, the NFL franchise made a couple of coaching adjustments, one of them entailing Chris being replaced by former Arizona Cardinals linebackers coach Billy Davis.
It did not take long for Chris to find employment elsewhere as he will now coach with his brother once more, a special feat given the two men’s father just passed away just over a month ago.
As for Lane’s staff as a whole, Chris is a welcome addition to a star-studded cast of analysts featuring former New York Giants head coach Joe Judge and former Mississippi State frontman Zach Arnett.
Ole Miss will begin what is anticipated by many analysts to be a historic season versus Furman in just six days.
