Corey Campbell

Corey Campbell is in his second season as Nebraska’s head football strength and conditioning coach in 2024. Campbell owns a decade of experience as a strength and conditioning coach, including time in the National Football League and in the Big Ten and Big 12 Conferences.

Campbell came to Nebraska after a stint in the NFL with the Carolina Panthers in 2021 and 2022. Under head coach Matt Rhule, Campbell served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach with the Panthers. In 2021, Carolina ranked second in the NFL in total defense.

Campbell was also on Rhule’s staff at Baylor, spending four seasons with the Bears. He served as an assistant director of athletic performance for three seasons from 2017 to 2019 before being promoted to Director of Athletic Performance in 2020. At Baylor, Campbell helped develop nearly two dozen future NFL Players. During his tenure, the Bears had four All-Americans, the Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year, Big 12 Offensive Freshman of the Year and Big 12 Offensive Newcomer of the Year. Baylor also had 18 All-Big 12 selections while Campbell was on staff. As a team, Baylor improved from a 1-11 record in 2017 to an 11-1 record in 2019, when the Bears appeared in their first Big 12 Championship game and played in the Sugar Bowl.

Before Baylor, Campbell spent a spring season as an assistant director of strength and conditioning at Purdue. In addition to his work with individual position groups, Campbell was responsible for designing supplementary programming aimed at adding lean mass to underdeveloped athletes and planning performance preparation and recovery/regeneration sessions. His work in the offseason helped set the stage for Purdue to post its highest win total in 10 years in 2017, and eight Boilermakers he trained went on to play in the NFL.

Campbell’s first full-time job came at Cincinnati, where he was an assistant director of strength and conditioning for the 2016 season. He worked with 12 future NFL players in his lone season at Cincinnati, while also serving as the strength and conditioning coach for the golf and varsity cheerleading teams. Campbell got his professional start at Georgia College, where he was a strength and conditioning graduate assistant.

 

As a player, Campbell was a two-year letterwinner as a fullback and special teams standout at Georgia. During his four seasons from 2010 to 2013, Georgia finished with a 36-18 record with two trips to the SEC Championship game and four bowl appearances, including a victory over Nebraska in the 2013 Capital One Bowl and a loss to the Huskers in the 2014 Gator Bowl. Campbell was named special teams captain four times as a senior in 2013. He earned his degree in biological science from Georgia in 2013 and graduated with a master’s degree in kinesiology from Georgia College in 2016.