Burden Retained as Running Backs Cach

Zohn Burden has officially been retained by Justin Fuente. However, the news comes with a twist. Burden will coach running backs, with Holmon Wiggins serving as the wide receivers coach.

That’s interesting news. Wiggins was a running backs coach at Tulsa for one season, and before that he was running backs coach at Illinois State for five seasons. He also played running back for New Mexico. Meanwhile, Burden was a wide receiver in college, and he’s never coached tailbacks in college.

That tells me that Fuente really likes Wiggins as a wide receivers coach from their days at Memphis together, so much that he’s willing to risk Burden coaching the tailbacks.

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