FARGO, N.D. – North Dakota State head football coach Matt Entz has added three new staff members to the Bison program for the 2022 season. Lewis Walker has been named cornerbacks coach, Seth Hestness is the offensive quality control coach, and Brett Watson is the defensive quality control coach.
 
Walker is filling the full-time position vacated by former NDSU defensive ends coach Buddha Williams, who accepted a job at Colorado State. Kody Morgan, who has been NDSU's cornerbacks coach since 2018, will remain part of a re-organized Bison defensive coaching staff to be determined.
 
Walker comes to NDSU after five seasons at Monmouth University, where he was part of two Big South Conference championships. He coached the defensive secondary and return specialists and produced three FCS All-Americans.
 
A graduate of the University of Utah, Walker started his coaching career in Utah at Copper Hills High School in 2014 before spending the 2015 and 2016 seasons with Columbia University (N.Y.) as a defensive quality control, defensive backs and returners coach.
 
Hestness joins the Bison after three seasons at Minnesota as a graduate assistant working with the offensive line. Hestness has four years of FBS experience including the 2018 season at Liberty, where he was a graduate assistant for tight ends, fullbacks and special teams. He began his career as a tight ends coach in 2017 at his alma mater, Wartburg College.
 
Watson is a 12-year veteran defensive line coach who has spent the last four seasons at the FCS level with the University of the Incarnate Word, where he was part of two Southland Conference championship teams. He has coached and developed 11 NFL defensive linemen.
 
Watson was a defensive line coach at West Texas A&M (2010-2011) and East Central in Oklahoma (2012) before returning to West Texas A&M as the assistant head coach, recruiting coordinator and NFL liaison for three seasons (2013-2015). He spent two seasons as a defensive line and inside linebackers coach at Southeastern Oklahoma State (2016-2017) before going to UIW.
 
Both of NDSU's previous quality control coaches recently accepted Division II coordinator jobs. Connor Senger was named offensive coordinator at Central Washington, and Lee Pronschinske was named defensive coordinator at Minot State.
 
North Dakota State finished the 2021 season with a 14-1 overall record. The Bison won their 10th Missouri Valley Football Conference championship and ninth NCAA Division I FCS national championship in the past 11 seasons.