Chandler Dorrell - Football Coach - University of Colorado Athletics

Delaware

Sep 6 (Sat)

1:30 PM

Chandler Dorrell

Title:
Associate Director of Player Personnel
Email:
footballscouting@colorado.edu
Phone:
303-492-5337

Chandler Dorrell is in his second year as the director of player personnel, having been promoted to the position on July 1, 2021. He had joined his father’s inaugural staff as the assistant director on February 27, 2020.

In his role, he coordinates and leads all aspects of football recruiting, including the hiring and development of the player personnel staff, prospect discovery and evaluation, as well as driving the creative approach to the on-campus and off-campus recruitment of football prospects. He also works closely with the general manager and director of operations with all administrative aspects of recruiting.

Dorrell, 27, returned to the state in which he was born from the Miami Dolphins, where he spent the 2019 season as a volunteer assistant. In that role, he was involved in roster organization and internal team matters, assisted in practice with the wide receivers, along with handling any administrative matters needed for coaches with team, staff, and position meetings.

He was also a volunteer assistant with the New York Jets for the 2018 season, where he learned basics of contract negotiations in the NFL with the team’s business office. He also assisted with the receivers in practice and handled several administrative matters for the coaches and staff.

Over the course of 2018-19, he was a football consultant with Pando Pooling, based in San Francisco. Pando is a financial services startup focused on helping athletes mitigate the risk of their careers by partnering with other athletes through income pooling. He joined the company after Seed Round, signed over 15 NFL football players to the pooling platform and assisted in the company’s growth through Series A funding. He is certified in Operational Excellence (LEAN)/Six Sigma.

Dorrell graduated from Vanderbilt University in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in Economics. He lettered three years at wide receiver playing for coach Derek Mason, and was the team’s fifth-leading receiver as a sophomore (10 catches for 118 yards). He began his collegiate career at Stanford University, where as a true freshman, he was a member of the Cardinal team that played Michigan State in the 100th Rose Bowl game (January 1, 2014).

The fall after he graduated from Vanderbilt, he was a volunteer video and operations assistant for the Commodores, as he assisted in logistics surrounding summer prospect camps, helped make video cutups alongside the graduate assistants for the position coaches.

He was born March 26, 1995 in Louisville, Colo., and graduated from St. Thomas Aquinas High School (Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), where he lettered in football (his position coach was Pro Football Hall of Famer Cris Carter, and he was teammates with the Bosa brothers (Joey and Nick) among numerous teammates who eventually made it to the NFL). His hobbies include playing golf (an accomplished player with a 6 handicap), basketball, snowboarding and anything outdoors. His father, Karl, is the head coach of the Buffaloes, his third tour of duty with the school; he had a long career as an NFL assistant; his younger sister, Lauren was a member of CU’s volleyball team for three years. In high school, he was selected as the Junior Orange Bowl Scholar Athlete of the Year as a senior (presented to the player with the highest grade point average of each of the Florida state football championship teams.