After addressing two defensive coaching vacancies internally last week, the Buffalo Bills went outside of their ranks to find their new quarterbacks coach. On Wednesday, the team announced Ronald Curry as their new quarterbacks coach.
Curry joins the Bills after spending the past eight seasons with the New Orleans Saints. It was reported that the new Saints regime offered Curry the job of wide receivers coach, but he opted to join Buffalo.
Here are five things to know about Buffalo’s new quarterbacks coach.
Worked under Sean Payton for much of his coaching career
Curry would coach high school football for three seasons before taking an offensive assistant role from 2014-2015 with the San Francisco 49ers. After being let go in San Francisco, Curry would call New Orleans home from 2016-2023. From 2016-2021, Curry coached under Sean Payton. He wore many hats in New Orleans under Payton serving as an offensive assistant (2016-2017), wide receivers coach (2018-2020) and quarterbacks coach (2021).
After Payton left the Saints, Curry added passing game coordinator to his quarterbacks coach title (2022-2023).
Coached with Joe Brady
During his time in New Orleans, Curry coached with Joe Brady from 2017-2018. Both served as offensive assistants in 2017. Brady remained in that role in 2018 while Curry moved to wide receivers coach. A reunion with Brady likely swayed Curry to come to Buffalo.
Two-sport athlete at UNC
Out of high school, Curry was one of the most sought after athletes in college sports. Curry was considered a top-10 recruit in college football and basketball. Curry verbally committed to Virginia before signing with North Carolina.
When his college football career was over, Curry was UNC’s all-time leader in both total yards and passing yards. Curry was also named the MVP of two bowl games (1998 Las Vegas Bowl and the 2001 Peach Bowl) during his collegiate career. This was impressive considering he missed time with an injury and had three different offensive…
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