The Detroit Lions have hired David Walker as the team’s running backs coach.

Walker most recently served as running backs coach for the Indianapolis Colts from 2011-14, including one season under Jim Caldwell in 2011, Caldwell’s third season as the Colts Head Coach.

In his last season with the Colts, he helped RB Donald Brown lead the team with 537 rushing yards, a career-high six touchdowns and a 5.3 rushing average, the highest average by a Colts player since 1961. In 2012, Walker’s group averaged 27.5 rushing attempts and 104.4 rushing yards per game that season, the most for the team since 2007.

Prior to his time in Indianapolis, Walker spent six seasons at the University of Pittsburgh as the team’s running backs coach from 2005-10. During his time with the Panthers, Walker helped RB Dion Lewis and RB Ray Graham combine for more than 1,900 rushing yards in 2010. From 2007-08, he also worked with RB LeSean McCoy as he earned Big East Offensive Player of the Year in 2008.

Walker’s coaching career began at Carol City High School in Miami, Fla., where he spent the 1994 season before moving on to Syracuse to become the school’s running backs coach, a post he held from 1995-2004.

Walker was born in Rochester, N.Y. He and his wife, Marilin, have two sons, Jalen and Jordan.

Contract terms were not disclosed.