Matt Duhamel enters his 12th season with the Minnesota Vikings in 2025 and his first as director of sports medicine. He spent the 2024 season as associate head athletic trainer/director of rehabilitation, following four seasons as the Vikings director of rehabilitation for the 2020-23 seasons.
Duhamel assists on Tyler Williams' staff with injury prevention, evaluation, treatment and rehabilitation while drawing on his experience and training as a licensed physical therapist. He helped the Vikings training staff receive a resounding stamp of approval when the NFL Players Association released the results of its "free agency report cards" during the 2025 offseason, ranking second out of all 32 teams.
Over the past three seasons (2022-24), Duhamel helped the Vikings achieve a 34-17 (.667) regular-season record, including a 14-3 mark and playoff appearance in 2024, the second-most wins in team history. He was a part of the 2022 Vikings team that finished 13-4 and claimed the NFC North title.
Duhamel was previously a member of the Vikings athletic training staff from 2010-16 as an assistant athletic trainer/physical therapist. From 2016-20, he was the director of athletic therapy for the NBA's Minnesota Timberwolves.
Duhamel worked during the offseason in the Twin Cities as an outpatient physical therapist with NovaCare Rehabilitation from 2010-12, while assisting the Vikings in-season and he previously gained NFL experience before joining the Vikings. He spent the 2006 season with the New England Patriots and worked with the team during the offseasons of 2005 and 2010 as an athletic training intern and physical therapy clinical student.
A member of the National Athletic Trainer's Association and the American Physical Therapy Association, Duhamel earned his undergraduate degree in athletic training at Northeastern, where he worked with the football and men's basketball teams. He earned his Doctorate of Physical Therapy from Boston University in 2010. Duhamel is certified by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties as a Sports Clinical Specialist and by the National Academy of Sports Medicine as a Corrective Exercise Specialist and Performance Enhancement Specialist.
A native of Lawrence, Massachusetts, Duhamel resides in Edina, Minn., with his wife, Jamie, and their sons, Colin and Ryan.
