Chidera Uzo-Diribe | |
Current Title: | Outside linebackers coach |
Current Team: | Georgia |
Current Conference: | SEC |
Birth Date: | 30 May 1992 |
Birth Place: | Long Beach, California, U.S. |
Player Years1: | 2010–2013 |
Player Team1: | Colorado |
Player Years2: | 2015 |
Player Team2: | New Orleans Saints |
Player Positions: | Defensive lineman |
Coach Years1: | 2016–2018 |
Coach Team1: | Colorado (GA) |
Coach Years2: | 2019 |
Coach Team2: | Kansas (DQC) |
Coach Years3: | 2020 |
Coach Team3: | Kansas (OLB) |
Coach Years4: | 2021 |
Coach Team4: | SMU (DL) |
Coach Years5: | 2022 |
Coach Team5: | TCU (DL) |
Coach Years6: | 2022–present |
Coach Team6: | Georgia (OLB) |
Championships: | 1 National (2022) |
Chidera Uzo-Diribe (born May 30, 1992) is an American football coach and former player who is currently the outside linebackers coach for the Georgia Bulldogs. Uzo-Diribe was previously the defensive line coach for the TCU Horned Frogs.
Chidera Uzo-Diribe was born on May 30, 1992, in Long Beach, California. He is cousins with Osi Umenyiora, a former NFL player for the New York Giants. After completing high school at Corona High School, Uzo-Diribe attended University of Colorado Boulder and played college football for the Colorado Buffaloes for four years, where he was a consistent starter and finished top ten in many defensive statistics. Uzo-Diribe graduated from Colorado with a bachelor's degree in communication.[1]
After graduating from Colorado and a brief stint with the New Orleans Saints, Uzo-Diribe returned to become a graduate assistant for the football team and specialized in the defensive line and outside linebacker players. After three years as a graduate assistant, Uzo-Diribe became the outside linebackers coach for the Kansas Jayhawks, where he was recognized as one of the top thirty rising coaches in college football.[2] Uzo-Diribe then became the defensive line coach for the SMU in 2021. Following the hiring of Sonny Dykes by the TCU Horned Frogs as head coach, Uzo-Diribe rejoined Dykes in TCU as the defensive line coach again.[3] However, Uzo-Diribe only remained the defensive line coach at TCU for a month, as he was hired as the outside linebackers coach by the Georgia Bulldogs early in the 2022 college football year.[4] Later that year, Uzo-Diribe would win his first college football national championship as a coach, which coincidently was against Dykes and TCU.