AARON CURRY enters his first season with the Jets after joining Aaron Glenn's staff as the team's linebackers coach. For Curry, 2025 marks his seventh season as an NFL coach following a four-year playing career, reaching the postseason in both roles.

Prior to joining the Jets, Curry served as the inside linebackers coach with the Pittsburgh Steelers (2023-24), following four seasons in Seattle, serving as a defensive assistant (2019), defensive assistant/ linebackers (2020-21), and assistant defensive line/defensive ends coach (2022). While in Pittsburgh, Curry guided inside linebacker Patrick Queen to his second Pro Bowl selection behind a team-leading 129 total tackles in 2024. Last season, Pittsburgh finished the year 12th in total defense (326.7), allowing only 98.7 rushing yards per game, the sixth lowest mark in the League.

As an assistant defensive line/defensive ends coach in Seattle (2022), the Seahawks produced 45.0 sacks, tied for the seventh most in the NFL. Before that, he served as a defensive assistant/linebackers coach (2020-21) in Seattle. In that span, under Curry's guidance, Seattle allowed only 95.6 rushing yards per game, the ninth lowest mark in the League.

In 2021, Curry oversaw one of the best linebacker pairings in the NFL between Jordyn Brooks and Bobby Wagner. Brooks and Wagner ranked second and third respectively in total tackles in the League, with Brooks' 183 tackles marking a career-high and the most in a single-season in franchise history. Wagner accumulated 170 total tackles, also a career-high, and was voted to his eighth-consecutive Pro Bowl and AP All-Pro teams.

In 2013, Curry began his coaching career as a strength and conditioning intern during the University of Charlotte's inaugural season of college football. He was elevated to defensive graduate assistant in 2014, followed by a promotion to defensive line coach in 2015. Curry helped both Larry Ogunjobi and Alex Highsmith become two of the first three players in program history to get drafted into the NFL.

Curry was the fourth overall selection by the Seattle Seahawks in the 2009 NFL Draft and played four seasons in the NFL. In 48 career games (39 starts) with the Seahawks (2009-11) and the Raiders (2011- 12), Curry registered 203 tackles, 5.5 sacks, 12 passes defensed, four forced fumbles, and four fumble recoveries, returning two for touchdowns.

A standout at Wake Forest, Curry started 49 of 51 career games, including a 2008 senior campaign where he received All-American honors and the Butkus Award, given to the nation's top collegiate linebacker.

Curry and his wife, Jamila, have four children, Maxwell, Matthew, Aaryn, and Michael.

FLIGHT PATH

New York Jets 2025-Present

Linebackers 2025-Present

Pittsburgh Steelers 2023-24

Inside Linebackers 2023-24

Seattle Seahawks 2019-22

Asst. Defensive Line/Defensive Ends 2022

Defensive Assistant/Linebackers 2020-21

Defensive Assistant 2019

University of North Carolina at Charlotte 2013-16

Defensive Line 2015-16

Defensive Graduate Assistant 2014

Strength & Conditioning Intern 2013

PLAYING CAREER

Las Vegas Raiders (LB) 2011-12

Seattle Seahawks (LB) 2009-11

Wake Forest (LB) 2005-08