Mayur Chaudhari enters his third season with the Panthers and his first as assistant linebackers coach. He spent the previous two seasons as a defensive assistant. Chaudhari brings over 20 years of coaching experience to the team, including the last seven in the NFL.
Working primarily with the linebackers in his second season as a defensive assistant in 2024, Chaudhari helped guide a group that saw Josey Jewell record the 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) and tied his career-high with seven tackles for loss. In Weeks 13 and 14, Jewell became just the seventh player in the NFL since 1999 and the first since Devin White in 2020 (Weeks 15-16) to record at least 10 tackles, two tackles for loss and 1.0 sack in back-to-back games.
Before being placed on injured reserve following Week 14, 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, making 30 of his 34 field goal 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), where he worked 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, 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 his alma mater, UC-Davis (2007, 1998-2001).
A native of San Jose, California, Chaudhari earned his bachelor's degree from UC Davis in 2002. He is married to his wife, Leigh.
