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Terry Bradden is an NFL football coach who has been the Kansas City Chiefs’ assistant defensive line coach since 2021. He held three other positions with the Chiefs prior to taking on this one. For three seasons, he served as the team’s defensive quality control coach. He joined the Chiefs as a defensive assistant coach in 2017.

Bradden worked with the defensive line during the 2018 season, including third-year DT Chris Jones, who led the team with 15.5 sacks, ranking third in the NFL behind AP Defensive Player of the Year Aaron Donald (20.5) and All-Pro Defensive End J.J. Watt (16.0). During the 2017 season, he worked closely with Pro Football Hall of Famer and Chiefs Hall of Famer Emmitt Thomas.

Bradden spent the 2016 season as a quarterback graduate assistant at Bethune Cookman University before joining the Chiefs. That year, he was named to the American Football Coaches Association’s first top 30 under 30 class.

Bradden previously spent the 2014 season as the quality control special teams coach at Florida Atlantic University before returning to his alma mater, Inlet Grove High School, as the head football coach and athletic director for the 2015 season. At the age of 24, he became Florida’s youngest head football coach and athletic director. Bradden played two seasons at Inlet Grove, leading the Hurricanes to consecutive Class 2A regional semifinal appearances as a junior and senior (2008-09).