Hall of Famer Warren Sapp is no longer on the Colorado football staff.
After two seasons with the Buffaloes, Sapp is leaving to pursue other opportunities, according to a BuffZone source.
“CU Athletics thanks Warren for his contributions to our football program over the last two seasons and for his commitment to our student-athletes,” CU told BuffZone in a prepared statement.
Sapp is the second coach to leave the Buffs this week, just days before the start of spring practices. The Buffs have their first of their 15 spring practices on Monday.
On Wednesday, it was reported that defensive coordinator/safeties coach Robert Livingston is leaving the Buffaloes to join the staff of the Denver Broncos. CU head coach Deion Sanders is promoting Chris Marve, who was hired this offseason as the Buffs’ linebackers coach, to the coordinator position.
Sanders hired Sapp, a fellow Pro Football Hall of Famer, as a graduate assistant in 2024, working with the defensive line. This past season, Sapp was promoted to defensive pass rush coordinator.
A dominant defensive lineman during his playing career, Sapp, 53, was an All-American at Miami in the early 1990s. During a 13-year NFL career, he won a Super Bowl with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was NFL defensive player of the year in 1999 and was a seven-time Pro Bowler before going into the Hall of Fame in 2013.
Sapp had never coached before coming to CU.
In 2024, he Sapp worked at CU alongside Damione Lewis, who left after that season to join the staff at Miami. Last year, Sapp worked with defensive line coach Domata Peko, who left CU earlier this month to take a job with the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Earlier this week, BuffZone reported that Sanders has promoted Dante’ Carter to be the new defensive line coach for the Buffaloes. Carter was a graduate assistant for the Buffs this past season.
