With a few defensive departures from the staff this offseason, Jim Harbaugh is searching to fill a few vacancies heading into the 2020 season. One of the potential candidates he’s looking at is Mississippi State defensive coordinator Bob Shoop.

Sam Webb of The Michigan Insider reported that Shoop could be an addition to Michigan’s defensive staff for the upcoming season. The Wolverines are looking to fill voids left by Chris Partridge (special teams coordinator/secondary), Nate Woody (defensive analyst) and Anthony Campanile (linebackers).

Shoop has been a defensive coordinator since 2007, with a handful of stops along the way. He was the defensive coordinator and defensive backs coach at William & Mary from 2007-2010 before joining James Franklin at Vanderbilt in 2011. For three seasons with the Commodores, Shoop was the defensive coordinator and safeties coach.

He then followed Franklin to Penn State in 2014, where he served in the same role for two additional years. Shoop then became the defensive coordinator at Tennessee in 2016 and 2017, before joining Joe Moorhead’s staff at Mississippi State in 2018.

Shoop has experience running defenses in the B1G, and would be a solid addition to the Michigan staff.