Tory Woodbury, a former HBCU legend and Los Angeles Rams scout/coach, enters his first season as Morgan State’s special teams coordinator and tight ends coach.
Woodbury has spent the last five years with the Los Angeles Rams organization, serving as a scout and as a special teams assistant coach. He earned a Super Bowl ring with the Rams earlier this year before leaving the organization.
The Winston-Salem, NC native has one of the great stories in HBCU football. After walking on at WSSU he led the program to back-to-back CIAA titles before going on to a pro career.
Woodbury signed with the New York Jets as an undrafted free agent in 2001, spending two seasons with the franchise before getting released. He also had stints with the New Orleans Saints and Buffalo Bills, the Ottawa Renegades of the Canadian Football League, the Cologne Centurions (NFL Europe) and the Arena Football League's New Orleans Voodoo before retiring after the 2006 season.
After a short hiatus from football, he started out coaching at the high school level before moving on to Division I-AA Delaware State in 2011. Woodbury remained at that school through 2014, then spent the 2015-17 seasons as an offensive coordinator at Johnson C. Smith University.
In that seven-year span, Woodbury said he juggled his coaching responsibilities with five different internships, including being a minority intern for the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2012, a scouting intern for the Cleveland Browns in 2014, a pro scouting intern for the Rams in 2015 and a scouting intern for the Senior Bowl Scouting Academy in 2016.
In 2017 he was brought in as a college scout for the L.A. Rams and he was promoted to assistant special teams coach in 2019.
