Mayur Chaudhari

Assistant linebackers

College: UC Davis

Biography

Mayur Chaudhari enters his fourth season with the Panthers and his second as assistant linebackers coach. He spent his first two seasons in Carolina as a defensive assistant. Chaudhari has over 20 years of coaching experience, including the last eight in the NFL.

In his first season as assistant linebackers coach (2025), Chaudhari oversaw a group that included linebacker Christian Rozeboom who led the team with 122 tackles, one of seven players in the NFL with over 120 tackles, an interception and a forced fumble. Second-year linebacker Trevin Wallace totaled 61 tackles in 12 games and set career highs in tackles for loss (five) and passes defensed (four).

Working primarily with the linebackers in his second season as a defensive assistant (2024), Chaudhari helped guide a group that saw Josey Jewell record the then fifth-most tackles by a player in their first season with the Panthers (97), despite appearing in just 12 games. Jewell set career-highs in sacks (3.5) and passes defensed (seven), while tying his career-high with seven tackles for loss.

Before missing the final four games, rookie Trevin Wallace ranked fourth in total tackles among rookies (63), despite starting in only eight games. Wallace finished the season tied with Jon Beason for fifth in franchise history in total tackles through a player's first eight starts (58). During his first start in Week 5 against Chicago, Wallace joined Luke Kuechly as the only Panthers rookie to record 15+ tackles in a game in franchise history.

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

In 2021, Chaudhari was part of a Chargers' special teams staff that helped kicker Dustin Hopkins finish tied for seventh in the NFL in field goals made, connecting on 30 of his 34 attempts (88.2%). Return specialist Andre Roberts earned second-team All-Pro honors after he averaged 27.3 yards per kickoff return, including a 101-yard touchdown.

A Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship participant with the Falcons during training camp (2015), Chaudhari would later join Atlanta's staff for three seasons as an assistant special teams coach (2018-20), working with Younghoe Koo as the kicker connected on 92.3% of his field goal attempts, the third best during that span and was selected to the Pro Bowl (2020).

Prior to entering the NFL ranks in a full-time capacity, Chaudhari's coaching career spanned nearly two decades at the collegiate level, coaching offense, defense and special teams, including stops at Hawai'i (2016-17), Lenoir-Rhyne (2014-15), Army (2013), USMA Prep (2011-12), VMI (2010), San Jose State (2008-09), Stanford (2006), Menlo College (2005), and two stints at Cal-Davis (2007, 1998-2001).

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 | UC-Davis - Offensive Assistant/Video Coordinator
2000 | UC-Davis - Assistant Running Backs/Video Coordinator
2001 | UC-Davis - Assistant Tight Ends/Video Coordinator
2005 | Menlo College - Running Backs/Video Coordinator
2006 | Stanford - Defensive Intern
2007 | UC-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 | Army - Safeties
2014-15 | Lenoir-Rhyne - Special Teams Coordinator/Secondary
2016 | Hawai'i - Special Teams Coordinator/Tight Ends
2017 | Hawai'i - Special Teams Coordinator/Defensive Ends
2018-20 | Atlanta Falcons - Assistant Special Teams
2021 | Los Angeles Chargers - Assistant Special Teams
2023-24 | Carolina Panthers - Defensive Assistant
2025-Pres. | Carolina Panthers - Assistant Linebackers

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