University of Arizona Athletics

Head Coach Jedd Fisch has announced the addition of Wildcat great, College Football Hall of Famer and Super Bowl champion Tedy Bruschi to the Arizona Football staff as Senior Advisor to the Head Football Coach in February of 2021. Bruschi, a two-time All-American and Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year at Arizona, also serves as a lead NFL analyst for ESPN since his retirement in 2009.

As Senior Advisor to the Head Football Coach, Bruschi will serve as a member of the executive football management team while serving as a consultant with the entire football staff. He will also assist the head coach in alumni relations, fundraising, social justice initiatives and student-athlete development off the field.

Bruschi's legacy as a Wildcat is as decorated as it is everlasting as one of four Wildcats to be enshrined in the NFF College Hall of Fame. A consensus All-American in 1994 and 1995, Bruschi was named Pac-10 Defensive Player of the Year in 1995 and won the Morris Trophy as the league's best defensive lineman. He ended his college career in 1995 with 52 sacks, which tied for the most in NCAA history. The California native was a key fixture in Arizona's "Desert Swarm Defense" that led the nation in scoring defense in 1992 and rushing defense in 1993 as the Wildcats recorded their first 10-win season in program history and defeated Miami in the Fiesta Bowl with Bruschi earning MVP honors.

He was selected in the third round by New England in the 1996 NFL Draft and spent all 13 seasons of his NFL career with the Patriots franchise. Bruschi won three Super Bowls with New England, was voted to the Pro Bowl in 2004 and was named the 2005 NFL Comeback Player of the Year after recovering from a stroke. His philanthropic work includes the creation of "Tedy's Team" that raises awareness for the American Stroke Association, in which Bruschi has run two Boston marathons in support of. He was also inducted into the Patriots' Hall of Fame in 2013.