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Raiders adding Sal Sunseri to defensive staff

  
Published January 23, 2015 03:39 AM
Alabama Tennessee Sunseris Football

FILE- In this April 21, 2012, file photo, Tennessee defensive coordinator Sal Sunseri calls to his coaching staff during their spring NCAA college football game in Knoxville, Tenn. The Sunseri family can’t win in this Alabama-Tennessee game _ or lose, for that matter. Vinnie Sunseri is a safety for the top-ranked Crimson Tide, and father Sal Sunseri is the Volunteers’ defensive coordinator. The only saving grace of Saturday’s family get-together is that they’re both involved with the respective defenses, not going head-to-head.(AP Photo/The Knoxville News Sentinel, Adam Brimer)

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As Jack Del Rio builds his coaching staff in Oakland, he’s reached out to another former co-worker.

According to Safid Deen of the Tallahassee Democrat, Florida State defensive line coach Sal Sunseri is leaving the school for a job with the Raiders.

Sunseri and Del Rio worked together in Carolina in 2002, when Del Rio was defensive coordinator and Sunseri the defensive line coach.

The former Pitt linebacker went back to college after leaving the Panthers in 2008, working at Alabama and Tennessee before heading to FSU.