The Razorbacks have hired a special teams coach from the University of Colorado, Daniel Da Prato, who moved to the Pac-12 to take the Director of Quality Control/Special Teams job for the 2016 season. Da Prato will fill the role last filled by Tanner Burns, quality control for special teams.

Colorado was 109th in special teams efficiency in 2018 but they were 12th in Da Prato's second year in 2017. The Buffs went 40-40 on extra point attempts but 11 for 16 on field goals in 2018. Their punt defense was great, only allowing average returns of 4.68 yards.

Prior to coaching at Colorado, Da Prato coached at Montana State as the special teams coordinator and tight ends coach, prior to Montana State, DaPrato was the receivers coach and special teams coordinator at Sacramento State.

Da Prato hails from California but went to school in Louisiana. He coached at Louisiana-Monroe as well so he's been in the college coaching ranks for 15 years now.

Stay tuned for more updates on HawgBeat as the staff continues to fill roles including Director of Recruiting.

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