Ole Miss Football and head coach Pete Golding continued their hiring spree last week with Terrence Metcalf and Marcus Woodson. Metcalf will serve as an assistant offensive coach, offensive line assistant and personal assistant, while Woodson will be the co-defensive coordinator. Both are former Ole Miss football players.
During his playing career at Ole Miss, Metcalf was a First Team All-SEC player in 2000 and 2001 and a First Team All-American in 2001. The Chicago Bears selected him in the third round of the 2002 NFL Draft. He played for the Bears from 2002-08, then spent 2009 and 2010 with the Detroit Lions and New Orleans Saints, respectively.
Following Metcalf’s professional playing career, he served as a volunteer coach at Oxford High School in 2014 before moving to defensive line coach in 2015. His coaching tenure coincided with the varsity football career of his son, DK Metcalf, former Ole Miss receiver and current Pittsburgh Steeler.
Following DK’s transition to Ole Miss in 2016, Terrence Metcalf coached at Pearl River Community College from 2016-19 and Coahoma Community College from 2022-24.
He served several different roles at these two schools, such as offensive line coach, assistant head coach, co-offensive coordinator and finally as head coach of Coahoma starting in 2023. However, he resigned after two seasons as head coach, when the Tigers went a combined 1-16.
Woodson was less accomplished as a player than Metcalf. He played safety for Ole Miss from 1999-2002 but was limited by injuries.
As a coach, Woodson has served as an assistant at various schools. He was the defensive backs coach at Auburn from 2018-20 and served as the recruiting coordinator in his second season.
Woodson then coached defensive backs at Florida State from 2020-22; from there, he became the safeties coach and co-defensive coordinator at Arkansas from 2023-25. Most recently, he served as the defensive backs coach and co-defensive coordinator at Kansas State after only four months.
Woodson has coached multiple notable names throughout his college career, including Jamel Dean, Noah Igbinoghene, Smoke Monday and Roger McCreary — all defensive backs who went on to play in the NFL.
