Dave Magazu enters his first season with the Broncos as the team’s offensive line coach—a position which he has guided for four years in the NFL and 27 years overall. He was hired by Denver on Jan. 18, 2011, after spending eight seasons with Broncos Head Coach John Fox in Carolina, serving as the club’s tight ends coach from 2003-06 and the offensive line coach from 2007-10.
In his 32nd overall year of coaching, Magazu spent his first 23 years working at the collegiate level before beginning his NFL coaching career with the Panthers in 2003. During his four seasons instructing Carolina’s offensive line, the Panthers ranked fifth in the NFL averaging 134.5 rushing yards per game and tied for second in the league with 26 individual 100-yard rushing performances. He also tutored a pair of linemen who combined for four Pro Bowl selections in tackle Jordan Gross(2008, ‘10) and center Ryan Kalil (2009-10).
Dave Magazu enters his first season with the Broncos as the team’s offensive line coach—a position which he has guided for four years in the NFL and 27 years overall. He was hired by Denver on Jan. 18, 2011, after spending eight seasons with Broncos Head Coach John Fox in Carolina, serving as the club’s tight ends coach from 2003-06 and the offensive line coach from 2007-10.
In his 32nd overall year of coaching, Magazu spent his first 23 years working at the collegiate level before beginning his NFL coaching career with the Panthers in 2003. During his four seasons instructing Carolina’s offensive line, the Panthers ranked fifth in the NFL averaging 134.5 rushing yards per game and tied for second in the league with 26 individual 100-yard rushing performances. He also tutored a pair of linemen who combined for four Pro Bowl selections in tackle Jordan Gross(2008, ‘10) and center Ryan Kalil (2009-10).
Magazu did some of his best work in 2009 when, despite losing his two starting offense tackles for the last four games of the year, the Panthers became the first team in NFL history to produce two 1,100-yard rushers (Jonathan Stewart- 1,133; DeAngelo Williams-1,117) in a single season. In his role as tight ends coach from 2003-06, he taught a group that emphasized blocking over receiving and helped a Panthers running game that registered a then franchiserecord 2,091 rushing yards in his first season with the club.
Prior to joining the NFL ranks, he served as the offensive line coach for Boston College from 1999-02, and helped develop a bevy of pro prospects, including future Pro Bowl selections Dan Koppen and Chris Snee along with 2002 firstround draft choice Marc Colombo. Four of his offensive linemen were All-Big East Conference selections in 2001, while three earned all-league honors in 2002. Serving as co-offensive coordinator/offensive line at the
University of Memphis from 1997-98, he instructed future NFL guard Artis Hicks, who earned freshman All-America honors in 1998.
He coached centers and guards for two seasons at the University of Kentucky after three years as an offensive line coach at Colorado State University under Rams Head Coach Sonny Lubick.
After graduating from Springfield College in 1980, where he was a four-year starter as a defensive tackle, he began his coaching career at Ithaca College and went on to coach at Western Michigan University (1981), North Carolina State (1982), Eastern Michigan University (1982), the University of Michigan (1983), Northern Illinois University (1984), Ball State University (1985-86), the U.S. Naval Academy (1987-89) and Indiana State University (1990-91).
Magazu, who attended Taunton High School in Taunton, Mass., was born on June 10, 1957. He and his wife, Carrie, have five children, including four sons: Anthony, Damon, Dominick and Roman, and a daughter, Olivia. Damon is entering his sophomore season as a defensive back at East Carolina University and Dominick was wide receiver at Appalachian State before graduating.
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