Boise State's Chris Petersen Adds an NFL Defensive Backs Coach to His Staff

Chris Petersen has landed another great assistant coach.

The Idaho Statesman is reporting that Jimmy Lake will become the next defensive backs coach and defensive passing game coordinator for the Broncos.

Lake has been coaching in the NFL for the last five years. Four of those years have been as a defensive backs coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

Coach Lake has worked with the likes of five-time Pro Bowler Ronde Barber and has been instrumental in developing young talent such as Aqib Talib and E.J. Biggers while in Tampa Bay.

Before coaching in the NFL, he was a defensive backs coach at Montana State in 2005, a cornerbacks and nickelbacks coach at the University of Washington in 2004 and a defensive backs coach at Eastern Washington from 2000-2003, where he played the same position for the Eagles from 1995-1998.

The relationship to Boise State for Coach Lake is through the current defensive coordinator for BSU, Pete Kwiatkowski. Coach Kwiatkowski was the defensive coordinator at Montana State when Lake was there as the DB coach in 2005.

Losing Marcel Yates to Texas A&M earlier this month was a blow to the Boise State coaching staff, but adding Lake to the group is an exceptional replacement. The BSU secondary should continue to be solid under the direction of Coach Lake.

Not only that, but it is only appropriate that a coach named Lake would be bringing his talents to "The Blue."

It should be a very exciting and interesting year for the Broncos and their fans.