Andrew Carter begins his first season with Carolina as the outside linebackers coach, joining the Panthers after spending the last two seasons (2023-24) with the Los Angeles Rams as their assistant defensive line coach. Carter brings 10 years of coaching experience to the Panthers, including three in the NFL.

Andrew Carter begins his first season with Carolina as the outside linebackers coach, joining the Panthers after spending the last two seasons (2023-24) with the Los Angeles Rams as their assistant defensive line coach. Carter brings 10 years of coaching experience to the Panthers, including three in the NFL.

In his second season with the Rams, Carter once again brought out the best in defensive end Kobie Turner. Building on his stellar rookie season, the first-year captain recorded 8.0 sacks and 62 total tackles. His 10 tackles for loss set a career-high and tied Sean Gilbert for the most multi-sack games in a players first two seasons with the Rams (four). Carter also helped bring out the success of a notable rookie. Defensive end Braden Fiske finished with 8.5 sacks, the third-most by a rookie in franchise history. His three multi-sack games were also the most by a rookie in Rams history. Fiske joined Shaquille Leonard as the only two players since 2000 to record at least 6.0 sacks, two forced fumbles and two fumble recoveries in a players first 11 games.

During the 2023 campaign with the assistance of Carter, the Rams defense ranked in the top half of the league in opponent rushing yards allowed, rushing touchdowns allowed and defensive total rush EPA. Carter also played an essential role in the development of rookie defensive lineman Kobie Turner, who had a record-breaking first season and became a finalist for the Defensive Rookie of the Year Award. Turner finished the regular season with 9.0 sacks, tying Aaron Donald for the most sacks by a rookie in Rams history and becoming the only rookie in franchise history to lead the team in sacks. Among rookie defensive players in 2023, Turner finished first in sacks, third in quarterback hits, tied for fourth in tackles for loss, fifth in pressures and hurries, eighth in tackles and 10th in snaps played. Carter also helped coach Aaron Donald in his final NFL season in which he passed Pat Swilling for 28th all-time in NFL history in sacks and Julius Peppers for the third-most tackles for loss in NFL history. Donald finished the 2023 season ranked ninth in pressures and tied for fourth in hurries.

Carter joined the Rams after spending the 2022 season as the defensive quality control coach for the Denver Broncos. He coached for a top-10 defensive unit in Denver that finished the 2022 season sixth in yards per play (5.04), seventh in yards allowed per game (320.0), 10th in rush yards allowed per game (109.8), 11th in yards per rush (4.26) and 12th in pass yards allowed per game (21.2). The Broncos' defense also ranked second in opponent third down conversion rate (34.1%), seventh in opponent red zone efficiency (51.1%) and tied for 10th in interceptions (15).

Prior to joining the Broncos staff, Carter spent two seasons as a graduate assistant and defensive assistant at the University of Kansas. He was set to become the defensive line coach at the University of Tennessee Martin before deciding to join the Broncos' staff.

Before his time with the Jayhawks/ Carter coached the defensive tackles at Hampton University for one season in 2019. He mentored two All-Big South Conference players, Andy Matthews and Desmond Sturdivant, and his unit contributed to a defense that ranked second in fewest rushing yards allowed (1,788), third in sacks (29), and tied for third in yards per rush (4.51).

Carter spent two seasons at his alma mater, Eastern Illinois, in 2017-18 before coaching at Hampton. In 2017, he served as a graduate assistant and director of football operations before being promoted to defensive line coach in 2018.

During his tenure at Eastern Illinois, Carter guided two players to All-Ohio Valley conference honors. Defensive end David Johnson garnered all-conference nods twice (2016 & 2017), while defensive lineman Levi Watson earned the recognition in 2018.

In addition to his five years coaching at the collegiate level, Carter also spent two years coaching high school football in Louisiana. Prior to joining the Eastern Illinois coaching staff, Carter was an offensive line and tight ends coach at Riverdale High School after serving as assistant head coach/co-defensive coordinator at Sophie B. Wright Charter School for the 2015 and 2016 high school seasons.

Carter graduated from Nicholls State University in Thibodaux, Louisiana in 2015 with a bachelor's degree in human performance education. He also earned a master's degree in technology from Eastern Illinois in 2018.

COACHING CAREER

2015 | Sophie B. Wright Charter School (LA.) - Assistant Head Coach/Co-Defensive Coordinator

2016 | Riverdale High School (LA.) - Offensive Line/Tight Ends

2017 | Eastern Illinois- Graduate Assistant

2018 | Eastern Illinois- Defensive Line

2019 | Hampton - Defensive Tackles

2020-21 | Kansas - Graduate Assistant/Defensive Assistant

2022 | Denver Broncos - Defensive Quality Control

2023-24 | Los Angeles Rams - Assistant Defensive Line

• 2025 | Carolina Panters - Outside Linebackers