LSU football DT Ahmad Breaux is reunited with Kyle Williams at LSU. Breaux said Williams is allowing the DL to play faster.

Head coach Brian Kelly is familiar with yearly staff turnover, especially at the defensive line position in his time at LSU. It’s a trend Kelly’s trying to curb by bringing on former Buffalo Bills standout Kyle Williams as his next defensive line coach.

LSU finalized a three-year contract with new defensive line coach Kyle Williams that will put him among the highest-paid defensive line coaches in college football, according to a copy of the deal obtained Friday by The Advocate through a public-records request.

LSU football head coach Brian Kelly reacted to Kyle Williams' first practice as the Tigers new defensive line coach. See what Kelly had to say.

BATON ROUGE – Kyle Williams, a former All-America defensive tackle at LSU, has been named defensive line coach for the Tigers, head coach Brian Kelly announced.

LSU has targeted Kyle Williams as its next defensive line coach, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told The Advocate on Thursday. A deal is in the works, sources said, but it has not been finalized. LSU begins spring practice Saturday.

LSU is targeting former All-American Kyle Williams as the Tigers' next defensive line coach, a source confirmed to The Daily Advertiser.

In between his stint in Bills and this new position, Williams served as defensive coordinator at Ruston High School, according to

His short game’s ridiculous,” coach Brian Kelly said. That encounter wound up serving Kelly well. Because LSU football has begun another round of spring practices, and once again, it first had to quickly hire a new defensive line coach — a position that has undergone a high rate of turnover across the last 10 seasons.