Senior Bowl Announces Coaching Staffs

The Reese’s Senior Bowl has announced that Cleveland Browns Assistant Head Coach and Special Teams Coordinator Bubba Ventrone (American team) and New York Giants Offensive Coordinator Mike Kafka (National team) will serve as head coaches for the 76th Reese’s Senior Bowl to be played on February 1, at Hancock Whitney Stadium on the campus of the University of South Alabama. All three days of practice will be televised on both NFL Network and ESPN, and the game itself will be aired live on the NFL Network at 1:30 p.m. The Browns have the second overall pick, and the Giants own the third selection in the 2025 NFL draft. This is the third year the Senior Bowl is implementing a “Coach Up” format in which coordinators and assistant coaches are placed into elevated or different roles from the ones they currently hold with their respective clubs. In total, at least one coach from 13 different teams that submitted nominations was chosen for this year’s game. The Reese’s Senior Bowl is coming off four consecutive drafts with at least 100 players selected, which represented more than 40% of the entire past four draft classes. Last year’s game featured a record 110 drafted players, including 10 first-rounders and 45 of the top 100 picks.