Peter Hansen

Peter Scott Hansen (born May 30, 1979) is an American football coach and former player who is the linebackers coach for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL).

Playing career Hansen attended Palo Alto High School where played football for his father, head coach Earl Hansen. Peter quarterbacked the Vikings to their first-ever Central Coast Section in 1995 and scored two touchdowns in a 14–10 win over Saratoga High School in the Division IV finals. Hansen played both football and basketball at the University of Arizona. At Arizona, he blocked seven field goals and point-after attempts during his career and earned second team all-Pac-10 Conference honors in 2000 as a special teams performer.

In January 2014, Hansen returned to Stanford as inside linebackers coach.

On January 21, 2020, Hansen was announced as the new defensive coordinator on Marcus Arroyo's inaugural staff at UNLV. Following two seasons at UNLV, Hansen was hired as the linebackers coach for the Denver Broncos in 2022. Hansen was not retained by the Broncos for 2023 after Sean Payton was hired as head coach.

On February 8, 2023, the Carolina Panthers hired Hansen as their linebackers coach.