Colorado running backs coach Marshall Faulk, the Pro and College Football Hall of Famer, is expected to become the head coach at Southern University , sources confirmed to ESPN on Wednesday.

Faulk, a New Orleans native, will return to his home state following his first season coaching college football, where he worked at Colorado under fellow Pro Football Hall of Famer Deion Sanders. Southern, an HBCU school in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, fired coach Terrence Graves last month following a 1-6 start.

The 52-year-old Faulk won NFL MVP honors in 2000, was named NFL offensive player of the year three times and made seven Pro Bowls. He had 12,279 career rushing yards and 100 touchdowns, and was a 2011 inductee into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.

Faulk also was a two-time All-America running b

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