Ryan Reynolds enters his eighth season with the Chiefs and the National Football League, taking over as head strength and conditioning coach in 2023 while keeping his previous post of director of sports science. Reynolds spent his first seven seasons with the club as assistant strength and conditioning/director of sport science.
Reynolds joined the club in 2016 and has assisted a program that prepared the team for seven-straight AFC West titles, an NFL-record of five-consecutively hosted AFC Championship Games, winning three of the five (2019, 2020, 2022), back-to-back Super Bowl appearances (LIV, LV) and two Super Bowl rings (LIV, LVII).
Reynolds spent the summer of 2016 assisting NBA player Derrick Rose prepare for the 2016-17 NBA season, which he played 64 games, by executing a strength and conditioning program designed specifically for Rose. Reynolds served as the assistant strength & conditioning coach for the UCLA Bruins football team for four seasons (2012-16). During this time, he oversaw all of the sports science technology as well as the intern and graduate assistant program.
He also spent time with Arizona State University's football program as an assistant coach focusing on sports performance (2008-12) and as a sports performance graduate assistant for the university's basketball and football teams (2006-08). While at ASU, Reynolds earned a Master of Education. Between his time as a graduate assistant and an assistant coach at ASU, Reynolds had a brief stint as a sports performance assistant for the University of Louisville's football team (2008) to help establish the strength and conditioning program.
Reynolds started his coaching career as an intern for the University of Iowa while completing his Bachelors. While at Iowa, Reynolds focused on men's basketball, Olympic sports and football strength & conditioning (2001-06).
Reynolds graduated with a Bachelor's in exercise science from the University of Iowa in 2005 and received a Master of Education from Arizona State University in 2007.
Education: University of Iowa (B.S. 2005), Arizona State University (M.Ed. 2007). Born: Fulton, Ill.
