With a breakthrough, 8-4 debut campaign under head coach Jake Dickert, Wake Forest emerged as one of the surprise teams anywhere in college football during the 2025 season.
Success, of course, brings other programs seeking a piece of the formula.
Dickert's Demon Deacons are losing wideouts coach Nick Edwards to Eric Morris' new Oklahoma State Cowboys football program, per multiple reports and confirmed to FootballScoop.
With Wake Forest set to face Southeastern Conference program Mississippi State in the Duke's Mayo Bowl in Charlotte, N.C., on Jan. 2, 2026, Dickert is moving quickly to replenish his Demon Deacons coaching staff.
Sources tell FootballScoop on Thursday that East Carolina wide receivers coach Dyrell Roberts has emerged as the top target in Wake Forest's search for its next wideouts coach.
Roberts has deep history in the Atlantic Coast Conference. A former standout-player at Virginia Tech, Roberts also has served on staff as his alma mater, coached in the prep ranks in Virginia and also spent time as a law enforcement officer.
Before spending the past three seasons on the East Carolina staffs of first Mike Houston and then Blake Harrell. The Pirates won eight games this season, Harrell's first full year at the helm, and face Pittsburgh Dec. 27 in the Military Bowl in Annapolis, Maryland.