While Chiefs General Manager Brett Veach works to free up cap space in preparation for the official start to the 2022 offseason, Head Coach Andy Reid is still busy filling in vacant positions on his coaching staff. Today, he promoted his defensive assistant, which was officially announced on the team’s official Twitter account.
Taking over for former safeties coach Sam Madison, Donald D’Alesio has been promoted to assume the coaching duties of Kansas City’s defensive backfield.
D’Alesio is quickly moving up the coaching ladder, already becoming a positional coach in his second season as an NFL coach. He previously spent five seasons as a member of the Youngstown State football coaching staff from 2015 to 2019, starting as a defensive quality control coach before coaching the defensive line, then finally becoming the team’s defensive coordinator.
In 2020, he spent the season as a defensive analyst for Louisiana State University before joining Andy Reid and the Chiefs in 2021 as a defensive assistant.
As a player, D’Alesio was a defensive back for YSU from 2010-2014, where he totaled 274 career tackles while starting in 44 games for the Penguins and playing in 48. His best season was during his senior year in 2014 when he registered 91 tackles and two interceptions.
Reid has one vacant spot left on his staff for 2022 – quarterbacks coach.
