Terry McDonough begins his eighth season with the Cardinals and is entering his 29th year of scouting in the NFL. McDonough joined the Cardinals in 2013 after spending 10 years with the Jacksonville Jaguars, including his last four seasons as the team's Director, Player Personnel.

He joined the Jaguars in 2003 and was promoted to Director, Player Personnel in January, 2009. In that role, McDonough scouted the top collegiate players throughout the nation as well as the top free agent prospects each year.

In the 2015 offseason, McDonough was named to an advisory council for the Nunn-Wooten Scouting Fellowship, an NFL program to encourage former players to pursue a career in professional scouting. The fellowship is named in honor of longtime Steelers personnel director Bill Nunn and former NFL player and front office executive John Wooten.

A Boston, MA native, McDonough began his NFL scouting career as an intern with San Francisco in 1989, a season in which the 49ers went 14-2 and beat the Broncos in Super Bowl XXIV. Following his graduation from Massachusetts with a degree in Sports Management, he was named player personnel director of the Barcelona Dragons of the World League in 1990. While with the Dragons (1990-92), McDonough handled a variety of personnel assignments, serving as the team's West Coast scout and helping each team prepare for the WFL draft. McDonough toured NFL and CFL training camps to grade potential WFL players. The 1991 Barcelona team finished with a 9-3 record, losing the league title to London in the World Bowl. The following season, the Dragons captured the European championship.

In 1992, McDonough was hired by Bill Belichick and the Cleveland Browns as a Southeast area scout, and he moved to Baltimore with the franchise in 1996. With the Ravens, McDonough served as the Eastern college supervisor for three years under the direction of General Manager Ozzie Newsome. During McDonough's tenure with the Ravens, the team won Super Bowl XXXV.

McDonough was all-conference as a running back at Hingham (MA) High School in football as well as in baseball, and he also lettered in basketball before he transferred to Bridgton Academy.

He is the son of the late Will McDonough, the long-time sports reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe who also worked at CBS Sports and NBC Sports. He is also the brother of Sean McDonough, a play-by-play announcer on ESPN and the former voice of Monday Night Football as well as Ryan McDonough, the former general manager of the Phoenix Suns.