Joining Englehart’s staff as the inside linebackers coach is Tyree Thompson who spent the 2025 season on staff at his alma mater, UCLA.
Thompson was the assistant linebackers coach at UCLA, where he mentored JonJon Vaughns to an honorable mention All-Conference selection. Last summer, he spent time at the Houston Texans training camp as part of the NFL’s Bill Walsh Fellowship.
The 2024 season took Thompson to Tempe, Arizona where he was a graduate assistant helping coach the defensive line. That season, the Sun Devils won the Big XII Championship and appeared in the CFB Playoff while landing one player, CJ Fite, on the All-Big XII team.
In 2022 and 2023, Thompson was at Hawaii as a graduate assistant helping coach the linebackers.
Thompson’s coaching career began at Hart High School where he was the Linebackers coach in 2021.
As a player, his collegiate career spanned six seasons and, in addition to his time at UCLA, included stops at Buffalo (2020), Los Angeles Valley College (2017) and Sacramento State (2015, 2016). In 2018, he racked up 55 total tackles while at UCLA. Six of his stops went for negative yardage.
A native of Pacoima, Calif., Thompson made the UCLA Athletic Director’s Honor Roll four times before graduating with his bachelor’s degree in sociology. Thompson then earned a master’s degree in education from Hawaii.
