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Ty McKenzie

Defensive Assistant/Linebackers

College: University of South Florida

Hometown: Tampa, Fla.

Experience: 7 years

Biography

Returns to the NFL coaching ranks with the Raiders after one season as a defensive analyst for the University of North Carolina in 2024…He enters his seventh season as an NFL coach after most recently working in the NFL with the Miami Dolphins as an outside linebackers coach in 2022…Prior to joining the Dolphins, he was an assistant linebackers/coaching fellow with the Indianapolis Colts in 2021…He spent one season as the linebackers coach for the Detroit Lions in 2020 after two seasons (2018-19) with the Tennessee Titans as inside linebackers coach…His first NFL coaching job was in 2017 with the Los Angeles Rams, where he served as an assistant special teams coach…Prior to that, he served as a defensive assistant at Stanford in 2016 and a graduate assistant at Colorado in 2015...Before becoming a coach, he spent five years as an NFL linebacker and was a third-round pick (97th overall) by the New England Patriots in 2009.

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