Brendan Daly begins his third season with the Kansas City Chiefs in 2021 as the club's Run Game Coordinator/Defensive Line Coach.
In 2020, Daly led the Chiefs defensive front featuring Pro Bowlers DT Chris Jones and DE Frank Clark who were ranked first and second on the team in sacks with 7.5 and 6.0, respectively. Jones was named to the AP All-Pro second team for the second time in his career, finishing the season as Pro Football Focus' second-highest graded defensive lineman of 2020, only behind the NFL's Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald. Since joining the Chiefs in 2019, Clark has registered 8.0 sacks in the postseason, the most in franchise history and the most in the NFL in that time span.
In his first season with the Chiefs in 2019, Daly oversaw a defensive line unit who ranked first in NFL passes defensed with 16. During Week 7 the Chiefs defense tallied 9.0 sacks against the Denver Broncos with 6.0 of the 9.0 sacks coming from the defensive line (DE Alex Okafor-2.0, DE Frank Clark-2.0 & DE Emmanuel Ogbah-2.0). Daly helped DT Chris Jones and DE Frank Clark to their first Pro Bowl nominations.
Daly spent the last four seasons as the defensive line coach for the New England Patriots. In each of the past three seasons, his defensive line was a part of a defense that was top 10 in stopping the run. He was hired in New England in 2014 as a defensive coaching assistant before being promoted to defensive line coach in 2015.
Before his time with the Patriots, Daly had two stints with the Minnesota Vikings as a defensive assistant/defensive line coach (2006-08) and defensive line coach (2012-13) and made the playoffs two times (2008, 2013). During his first tenure, the Vikings became the first team in NFL history to lead the league in rushing defense for three consecutive seasons (2006-08), holding opponents to under 75 yards rushing per game.
Daly also spent three seasons (2009-11) with Chiefs Defensive Coordinator and then-Rams Head Coach Steve Spagnuolo as the defensive line coach in St. Louis. In 2011, he coached DE Chris Long to a career-best 13.0 sacks. Under Daly's leadership in 2010, the Rams had 43.0 sacks as a team, which ranked seventh-most in the NFL.
Before breaking into the NFL ranks, Daly had multiple stops coaching in college. He was the defensive line coach at Villanova in 2005 and the tight ends coach at Illinois State in 2004. He was an assistant strength and conditioning coach at Oklahoma State in 2003 after serving as a graduate assistant from 2001-02. In 2000, Daly was a graduate assistant at Maryland after coaching tight ends at Villanova in 1999. He had his first collegiate coaching job at his alma mater, Drake University, where he coached tight ends in 1998. He began his coaching career at Ridgewood High School in New Port Richie, Fla., in 1997 after graduating from Drake, where he played tight end.
Education: *Drake University (1997). *Born: Chicago. Family: Wife - Keely. Son - Liam and Daughters - Ciara and Avelin.
