Jacksonville State is hiring Auburn co-defensive coordinator Charles Kelly, a former Gamecocks assistant, as its new head football coach, sources told ESPN's Pete Thamel on Friday.

The Auburn football team may be losing a key member of its coaching staff next fall. Co-defensive coordinator Charles Kelly, who vastly helped improve an inexperienced until a year ago, is expected to take the head coaching job at Jacksonville State next season.

Why Jacksonville State football Charles Kelly thought it was time to become a head coach and came back to the Gamecocks.

Auburn safeties coach and co-defensive coordinator Charles Kelly is expected to be Jacksonville State’s next head coach, sources tell Auburn Live. Kelly has notified Hugh Freeze and the coaching staff,

Longtime offensive line coach Rick Trickett will remain at Jacksonville State and be a part of Charles Kelly’s first-year staff, it was announced Sunday afternoon. He is the first staff member officially announced on Kelly’s first-year staff at Jax State;

Auburn co-defensive coordinator Charles Kelly is expected to be named the new head coach at Jacksonville State, according to Auburn Live’s Justin Hokanson. This is the first collegiate head coaching job for Kelly,

Charles Kelly has been part of some of college football's biggest programs and a couple national championships along the way. With that backdrop, he's moving with the swiftness as he begins to assemble his inaugural staff now that he's taking over at Jacksonville State in his native Alabama.