MOULTRIE – After losing no assistant coaches last year, the Colquitt County football team has lost four members of the 2023 staff, all of whom were former Packer players.

Two new coaches have been added, including Buck Hanson, who was previously on the Colquitt County sideline from 2018-2021.

Gone are Bull Barge, Quin Roberson, Kiel Pollard and Patrick Hunter.

Barge has joined Jeff Hammond’s staff at Worth County as defensive coordinator; Roberson has been named offensive coordinator at Westlake; and Hunter will coach the kickers at Veterans High.

Hanson will handle the tight ends, but also can help offensive line coach Bryce Giddens.

In 2018, Hanson came to Moultrie from Lee County to coach tight ends on what proved to be Rush Propst’s final staff.

He remained with the Packers for the three years of Justin Rogers’s tenure, coaching the offensive line.

In 2022, he was at Lowndes and last year coached at Rome.

Hanson played on the 1979 Enterprise (Ala.) High School state championship football team and went to Troy University, where he was a member of its 1984 national championship team.

He held a number of coaching positions in Alabama before moving to Georgia to become the run game coordinator at Lee County from 2015-2017.

He was on the staff of the Lee County team that won a state championship in 2017.

Replacing Roberson in working with the inside receivers is Austin Westbrook, who played receiver at Walker High in Jasper, Ala., and at Faulkner University.

He has coached at Fort Scott Community College in Kansas; at Bessemer City and Jackson-Olin high schools in Alabama; and, most recently, at Northern Illinois University.

John Cooper is returning for his third season as the Packers offensive coordinator.

A Worth County graduate, Cooper first came to Colquitt County in 2012 and remained on the staff until he left in 2016 with fellow assistant Sean Calhoun to go to Carrollton, where Calhoun was named head coach.

He remained on Calhoun’s staff at Carrollton for five seasons, before returning to Colquitt County in 2021.

He helped develop running back Charlie Pace in 2022 and brought along young ball carriers Ramsey Dennis Jr. and Day’Shawn Brown last season.

Giddens was an All-State center who played on the 2010 Colquitt County team that reached the state championship game.

He went on to play at Arkansas State and began his high school coaching career at his alma mater working with the tight ends and offensive line in 2017.

He went to Auburn as a graduate assistant in 2018, but was back in South Georgia to coach linemen at Valdosta in 2019 and Lowndes in 2020 and 2021.

He is now in his third season as the Packers offensive line coach.

Also back on the offensive side of the football to coach receivers will be David Hill Jr., who returns for his ninth season at Colquitt County.

He was an outstanding receiver under Rush Propst at Eufaula (Ala.) High, where he was a high school All-American and the No. 1 receiver in the state his senior year.

He played collegiately at Auburn and Troy State.

He began his coaching career in 2007 and in addition to working at four high schools, he also has been on the staffs at Holmes Community College in Mississippi and at Florida A&M.

Defensive coordinator Jeremy Rowell originally joined the Colquitt County staff in 2013 after coaching 17 years at Troy, his alma mater, where he served in several roles, including co-defensive coordinator.

After leaving Colquitt County following the 2015 season, he coached defensive backs and outside linebackers at Georgia Southern for six years.

The former Crestview (Fla.) High and Troy quarterback is back for his third season as the Packers defensive coordinator.

Another former Packer player on the staff is Colquitt County Sports Hall of Fame member Dextra Polite, who started at cornerback on the 1994 Packers team that won the program’s first state championship.

After playing at Georgia Military and starting at corner for Clemson, Polite returned to Colquitt County in 2001 and has been coaching the Packers secondary players ever since.

Third-year defensive line coach Terel Toomer did not play for Colquitt County in high school, but he did play against the Packers in 1996 and 1997 as a starting defensive tackle on the Worth County football team.

After playing at Valdosta State, where he and Calhoun were teammates on the 2004 National Championship team, he began coaching in 2009 at Chattooga and has worked at Gordon Central, Washington-Wilkes and McIntosh County, where he was the head coach in 2017.

In 2021, he was the defensive coordinator at Macon County before joining the Colquitt County staff the next season.

Stan Luttrell is back for his third season. He has been the strength and conditioning coordinator and this year will coach the linebackers.

He was the head coach at Hebron Christian the previous two seasons and was the head coach at Chestatee from 2006-2013.

Luttrell, who started his coaching career in Tennessee, also has been the head coach at Union County and at Johnson High in Gainesville.

From 2014-2016, he was an assistant to Jess Simpson on three Buford teams that went a combined 41-4 and won an undefeated state championship in 2014.

Luttrell, well-known for his work in the weight room, also has been named the Georgia Coach of the Year by the National High School Strength Coaches Association.

He had been in charge of strength and conditioning for seven Georgia high school football programs before joining the Colquitt County staff last year.

Back for his third season in Moultrie is Brian Simmons, who is the special teams coordinator and the safeties coach.

Simmons was the defensive coordinator at Carrollton under Calhoun for five years and held the same post at Thomasville in 2021.

The Cook High and Valdosta State graduate also has coached with Calhoun at Berrien and Collins Hill.

Returning for his 19th season at Colquitt County is director of football operations Earl Jefferson.

Ryan Kebler is back for his 15th season as the program’s head athletic trainer. His assistant Kathleen Rubino also returns.

Video coordinator Darius Townsend will handle the team’s day-to-day video operations. Greg Hall again will be in charge of the video scoreboard.

Marshall Locke returns for his third season as the ninth-grade team’s head coach. His staff includes Tomarcio Reese, Cory Harper, Ian Brinson, Michael Fowler and Trey Perkins.