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Payton Veraldi

Payton Veraldi

Veraldi joins Gardner-Webb after a two season stint at Middle Tennessee State University where he served as a Defensive Graduate Assistant and Assistant Director of Player Personnel. Veraldi mentored four All-CUSA selections while helping the Blue Raiders achieve their first Top 25 win over the University of Miami.
 
Prior to joining the staff at MTSU, Veraldi spent the 2021 season at Wofford where he served as an Offensive Quality Control coach working with the quarterbacks. During the shortened 2020 season, Veraldi worked as the Cornerbacks Coach at Tiffin, where the Dragons would finish 6-0, winning back-to-back GMAC championships.
 
Veraldi was a team captain and quarterback at Lindsey Wilson College in Columbia, Kentucky from 2015-2020, where he helped lead the Blue Raiders to two Mid-South Conference championships and was selected by the Kentucky Pro Football Hall of Fame as a member of the All-Commonwealth Team.
 
A native of Dalton, Georgia, Veraldi earned his undergraduate degree at Lindsey Wilson College in 2020.