Now entering his 21st season overall with the Packers, Nate Weir begins his second season as director of sports medicine/head athletic trainer after serving as director of rehabilitation/associate athletic trainer from 2022- 23, coordinator of rehabilitation from 2018-21 and assistant athletic trainer from 2008-2017. He also served as a seasonal athletic training intern for the Packers for three seasons (2005- 07) and got his start as a summer intern with Green Bay in 2004. Promoted to his current position in April 2024, Weir oversees the team's medical care on a daily basis.
For the second time in his career, Weir and the Packers' athletic training staff were honored by its peers with the NFL Athletic Training Staff of the Year award in 2024. He was also part of the staff that received the award following the 2011 season.
Weir was named the recipient of the Tim Davey NFC Assistant Athletic Trainer of the Year award in 2023. He was also chosen by Jordy Nelson to introduce him for his induction into the Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame for the Class of 2023 after Weir led Nelson's rehab following a season-ending knee injury he sustained early in the 2015 season. Nelson went on to earn the NFL Comeback Player of the Year award in 2016.
Professionally, Weir is a member of the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS), serving as the PFATS communication committee chairman since 2015. Previously, he served on the PFATS executive committee as an assistant athletic trainer representative (2019-21).
Weir has also served as an NFL consultant on the Musculoskeletal Committee – Foot and Ankle Task Force since 2020.
Weir was a four-year letterwinner for the men's soccer team at Central College in Pella, Iowa, and earned his B.A. degree from there in 2005. In 2008, he earned his M.S. in sports management from California University of Pennsylvania. Weir is a board-certified athletic trainer and a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA) and the Wisconsin Athletic Trainers Association (WATA).
A native of Olathe, Kan., Weir and his wife, Leslie, have three children, Amelia, 8, Harrison, 7, and Josephine, 2.