Mayur Chaudhari joins the Carolina Panthers staff as a defensive assistant in 2023 after most recently serving as an assistant special teams coach for the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021. Prior to his time with the Chargers, Chaudhari spent three seasons (2018-20) as a special teams assistant with the Atlanta Falcons.

Mayur Chaudhari joins the Carolina Panthers staff as a defensive assistant in 2023 after most recently serving as an assistant special teams coach for the Los Angeles Chargers in 2021. Prior to his time with the Chargers, Chaudhari spent three seasons (2018-20) as a special teams assistant with the Atlanta Falcons.

Chaudhari brings over 20 years of coaching experience to the Panthers staff. In 2021, Chargers' kicker Dustin Hopkins finished tied for seventh in the NFL making 30 of his 34 field goal attempts (88.2%). Return specialist Andre Roberts led the NFL with 1,010 kick return yards, averaging 27.30 yards per return and added a 101-yard kick return for a touchdown in Week 17 against the Denver Broncos. Roberts garnered Second-team All-Pro honors for his efforts in the return game.

During his three years with Atlanta (2018-20), Chaudhari's worked with kicker Younghoe Koo helping Koo 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 from 2016-17, adding the responsibility of working with the Rainbow Warriors' tight ends in 2016, then defensive ends in 2017.

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 in 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, in 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 in 2005, tutoring the running backs at Menlo College.

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

COACHING CAREER

• 1998-99 | 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
• 2008-09 | San Jose State | Graduate Assistant
• 2010 | Virginia Military Institute | Safeties/Nickels
• 2011-12 | United States Military Academy Prep School | Special Teams/Secondary/Wide Receivers
• 2013 | United States Military Academy | Safeties
• 2014-15 | Lenoir-Rhyne | Special Teams Coordinator/Secondary
• 2016 | Hawaii | Special Teams Coordinator/Tight Ends
• 2017 | Hawaii | Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Ends
• 2018-20 | Atlanta Falcons | Assistant Special Teams
• 2021 | Los Angeles Chargers | Assistant Special Teams
• 2023-pres | Carolina Panthers | Defensive Assistant