Uriah Myrie joins the Vikings as head athletic trainer for his 7th NFL season and 13th overall in athletic training. Myrie spent the past five seasons with the Houston Texans as an assistant athletic trainer, where he served as a supervisor for the summer and year-long internship program and sports medicine fellowship, a preceptor for clinical affiliated athletic training education programs and a coordinator for concussion management.
Prior to his time with the Texans, Myrie worked with the Arizona State University football team from 2015-17, serving as a program assistant athletic trainer, specifically working with player rehabilitation.
Myrie spent the 2014 season interning for the Buffalo Bills after serving as a graduate assistant athletic trainer with the University of Utah football program (2012-14) and an assistant athletic trainer for Hudson Valley Community College from 2011-12. He broke into the NFL as a summer intern with the Carolina Panthers in 2009 and 2010 and spent two seasons with the club.
The Albany, New York, native earned his bachelor's degree in athletic training from the University of Delaware in 2011 before obtaining his master's degree in exercise and sports science from Utah in 2014. Myrie is a NCSA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, NASM Corrective Exercise Specialist and Performance Enhancement Specialist. He also gained training in manual therapy techniques in dry needling, fascial manipulation and active release techniques for upper and lower extremities and spine.
