Mayur Chaudhari enters his second season as a defensive assistant for the Panthers after joining the staff in 2023, bringing over 20 years of coaching experience to the team. Prior to Carolina, Chaudhari most recently served as an assistant special teams coach for the Los Angeles Chargers (2021) and Atlanta Falcons (2018-20).

Mayur Chaudhari enters his second season as a defensive assistant for the Panthers after joining the staff in 2023, bringing over 20 years of coaching experience to the team. Prior to Carolina, Chaudhari most recently served as an assistant special teams coach for the Los Angeles Chargers (2021) and Atlanta Falcons (2018-20).

Chaudhari assisted a group in 2023 that allowed the fourth-fewest yards per game in the NFL (293.9) and third lowest in a season in franchise history. The defense's 171.5 passing yards per game set a franchise record and third-fewest in the NFL in 2023.

In 2021, Chaudhari was part of a Chargers' special teams staff that helped kicker Dustin Hopkins finished tied for seventh in the NFL making 30 of his 34 field goal attempts (88.2%). Return specialist Andre Roberts eared second-team All-Pro honors after he led the NFL with 1,010 kick return yards, averaging 27.3 yards per return and added a 101-yard kick return for a touchdown.

During his three years with Atlanta (2018-20), Chaudhari's worked with kicker Younghoe Koo helping him develop into one of the NFL's top kickers. Named NFC Special Teams Player of the Month for November, Koo was part of a three-way tie for the most points scored in 2020, as his 37 made field goals led the NFL.

Chaudhari's first experience at the NFL level came in the summer of 2015 when he spent training camp with the Falcons as the club's Bill Walsh Minority Coaching Fellow. Prior to entering the NFL ranks in a full-time capacity, Chaudhari's coaching career spanned nearly two decades at the collegiate level. Chaudhari served as special teams coordinator at the University of Hawai'i (2016-17), adding the responsibility of working with the Rainbow Warriors' tight ends (2016), then defensive ends (2017).

In his first season with Hawai'i, Chaudhari worked closely with current Colts punter Rigoberto Sanchez, who was a perfect 13-of 13 on field goal attempts in 2016 and set the school-record for career punt average.

Chaudhari spent two seasons at NCAA Division II Lenoir–Rhyne University in Hickory, N.C., working with the special teams units for the Bears and coaching the secondary. Lenoir-Rhyne's punt unit, under Chaudhari's direction, ranked No. 4 the nation in net punt average and led the South Atlantic Conference. Two of his specialists earned All-SAC honors in 2015, while safety Kyle Dugger, an eventual second-round draft pick, was named SAC Defensive Freshman of the Year and safety Chris Shaffer was named First-Team All-SAC following the 2015 season, both under Chaudhari's guidance. In his first season with Lenoir-Rhyne, the Bears won the SAC and earned the top seed in the Division II playoff bracket.

Chaudhari spent one season at the United States Military Academy (2013), prepping the Black Knights' safeties at West Point, after holding a variety of roles at the U.S. Military Academy Prep School for the prior two years (2011-12). He served as special teams coordinator during each of his two seasons at the Prep School, while also working with the linebackers and wide receivers. Chaudhari also served as the preparatory institution's head track and field coach.

Chaudhari worked as the secondary coach at Virginia Military Institute (2010), working closely with the nickel defensive backs in the defensive unit's sub-package. He earned his role at VMI after two seasons as a graduate assistant at San Jose State (2008-09), assisting the special teams units, the linebackers group and the secondary. He returned to his alma mater, UC Davis (2007), as the linebackers coach, after spending one season as a defensive intern at Stanford University.

Chaudhari entered the coaching profession in 1998 at UC Davis, serving as an offensive assistant and as the team's video coordinator. He would remain with the Aggies for the following three seasons, serving in a variety of offensive coaching roles, while remaining the team's video coordinator. Following a break from the profession, he returned to coaching, tutoring the running backs at Menlo College (2005).

A native of San Jose, Calif., Chaudhari earned his bachelor's degree from UC Davis (2002). He is married to his wife, Leigh.

COACHING CAREER

1998-1999 | California-Davis - Offensive Assistant/Video Coordinator

2000 | California-Davis - Assistant Running Backs/Video Coordinator

2001 | California-Davis - Assistant Tight Ends/Video Coordinator

2005 | Menlo College - Running Backs/Video Coordinator

2006 |Stanford - Defensive Intern

2007 | California-Davis - Linebackers

2008-2009 | San Jose State - Graduate Assistant

2010 | Virginia Military Institute - Safeties/Nickels

2011-2012 | United States Military Academy Prep School - Special Teams/Secondary/Wide Receivers

2013 | United States Military Academy -Safeties

2014-2015 | Lenoir-Rhyne - Special Teams Coordinator/Secondary

2016 | Hawai'i - Special Teams Coordinator/Tight Ends

2017 | Hawai'i - Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Ends

2018-2020 | Atlanta Falcons -Assistant Special Teams

2021 | Los Angeles Chargers - Assistant Special Teams

2023-pres | Carolina Panthers - Defensive Assistant