{"id":229486,"date":"2025-07-23T10:51:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/229486\/"},"modified":"2025-07-23T10:51:12","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T10:51:12","slug":"los-angeles-chargers-hiring-assistant-coach-from-colorado-st-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/229486\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Chargers hiring assistant coach from Colorado St. football"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Colorado State<\/a> football coaching staff is reportedly getting a shake-up barely a month before the 2025 season kicks off.<\/p>\n

CSU defensive line coach Chuka Ndulue has accepted a job as the Los Angeles Chargers<\/a>‘ defensive line coach as of July 18, according to a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Ndulue’s move to the NFL reunites him with the Chargers organization, where he spent two seasons as a practice squad player from 2015-16.<\/p>\n

The former Oklahoma Sooner standout was with the Rams for just one season (2024), helping the CSU defense improve during an 8-5 (6-1 Mountain West) campaign.<\/p>\n

Ndulue was previously the defensive line coach at New Mexico State (2022-23) and Southern Illinois (2019-21) before joining Jay Norvell’s staff in Fort Collins. He’s highly regarded in the coaching profession, especially after helping the Aggies to the program’s first-ever 10-win season in 2023.<\/p>\n

The Chargers opened training camp for the 2025 season July 17<\/a>, with the team’s preseason opener set for July 31 vs. the Detroit Lions.<\/p>\n

Colorado State opens preseason camp in early August. That leaves a very short window for Norvell to fill CSU’s defensive line coach opening, especially with the regular-season opener Aug. 30 at Washington.<\/p>\n

Chris Abshire covers high school and community sports for the Coloradoan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Colorado State football coaching staff is reportedly getting a shake-up barely a month before the 2025 season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229487,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2064],"tags":[3689,247,265,240,241,5570,318,339,1554,1556,564,6871,1609,33153,324,3690,7,3688,20842,239,1014,262,2444,2443,3835,248,267,49,4845,246,88,6,35196,245,264,424,9,5573,266,376,678,3691,5571,776,1555,381,1588],"class_list":{"0":"post-229486","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles-chargers","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-american","10":"tag-american-football","11":"tag-angeles","12":"tag-chargers","13":"tag-coaching","14":"tag-college","15":"tag-college-sports","16":"tag-colleges","17":"tag-colleges-u0026-universities","18":"tag-colorado","19":"tag-colorado-state-rams","20":"tag-colorado-state-rams-football","21":"tag-colorado-state-university","22":"tag-conference","23":"tag-enabled","24":"tag-football","25":"tag-highlights","26":"tag-hub","27":"tag-los","28":"tag-los-angeles","29":"tag-los-angeles-chargers","30":"tag-losangeles","31":"tag-losangeleschargers","32":"tag-mountain","33":"tag-national","34":"tag-national-sports","35":"tag-ncaa","36":"tag-ncaa-mountain-west-conference","37":"tag-neutral","38":"tag-news","39":"tag-nfl","40":"tag-nfl-hub","41":"tag-overall","42":"tag-overall-neutral","43":"tag-rams","44":"tag-sports","45":"tag-sports-coaching-u0026-training","46":"tag-sports-news","47":"tag-state","48":"tag-story","49":"tag-story-highlights-ai-enabled","50":"tag-training","51":"tag-u0026","52":"tag-universities","53":"tag-university","54":"tag-west"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229486"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229486\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229486"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}