Chris Peduzzi is in his first season as Nebraska’s head athletic trainer for football in 2023. Peduzzi has more than 25 years of experience in athletic training and sports medicine, including nearly 20 years in the National Football League.
Peduzzi came to Nebraska after spending one year as the director of sports medicine/head athletic trainer at Ball State. With the Cardinals, he directed all efforts for the sports medicine department and served as the football athletic trainer.
Prior to Ball State, Peduzzi had spent his entire career in the state of Pennsylvania. He was the sports medicine coordinator and lead athletic trainer for St. Luke’s University Health Network from 2020 to 2022 after serving as a surgical clinical assistant and athletic trainer at the Rothman Institute from 2018 to 2020.
Peduzzi gained extensive NFL experience with the Philadelphia Eagles, spending nearly 20 years with the organization. He was an assistant athletic trainer with the Eagles from 1999 to 2013 before being promoted to head athletic trainer and the director of sports medicine from 2013 to 2018. He was the head athletic trainer and director of sports medicine for the 2017 Super Bowl LII champion Eagles.
Peduzzi began his career as a faculty athletic trainer and instructor at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. He earned his bachelor’s degree in exercise science, health education and sports medicine from Virginia Tech in 1994. While at Virginia Tech, he was a three-year football letterman. Peduzzi went on to earn his master’s degree in education with a concentration in kinesiology (sports medicine) and counseling in 1997.