The Ramsey High School football team has added former University of Alabama running back Trent Richardson to its coaching staff, the team announced on social media Friday morning.

We welcome Coach Richardson. pic.twitter.com/lKYLxNe5OD

— Ramsay Football (@RamsayFootball) April 19, 2024

Richardson joins a Rams team that has been ranked among the best in the state in recent years as Birmingham High School boasts a 44-11 record since 2020 and won the Class 5A state title in 2022. They nearly won back-to-back championships in 2023 but lost to Gulf Shores in the state finals.

Despite Ramsey's continued success, the Rams suffered a wave of coaching resignations after last season that development head coach Ronny Jackson called “shocking.” Richardson, who serves as the team's running backs coach, will join seven other new staff members on the Rams' sideline.

“I've never seen that in my life,” Jackson said. He told AL.com“We won it and then the next year we lost the state championship, so it was a shock to see who was leaving.”

Richardson had a decorated career at Alabama from 2009-2011 before being selected third overall by the Cleveland Browns in the 2012 NFL Draft. He spent four years in the NFL, playing for four teams before eventually signing with the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. Since 2019, Richardson has played for the now-defunct Birmingham Iron of the AAF and Mexican team Caudillos de Chihuahua.

This will be Richardson's coaching debut, but he said he has received coaching offers for “several years.”

“Trent said it was nice to get the offer because he'd been getting offers for the last four or five years. The only reason he didn't get the offer was because his daughters were graduating and he wanted to be there for his kids,” Jackson said.

Charles Vaughn is a contributing writer for Yellow Hammer News.