Officiating crews for the 2020 season

Note from the editor:

No doubt this is a season unlike any other. The concept of a crew will not be the same in the 2020 season. Crews are regionally assigned, and we have designated them roughly according to Eastern, Central, and Western. Crews are not going to stay together like in previous seasons, as there will be several adjustments each week to account for minimizing travel.

The original post has been revised to reflect the current assignments. The original crew assignments are on the next page.

Football Zebras has obtained the officiating crew rosters for the 2020 NFL season. This season, there are six new officials to replace nine that left the field and five on-field officials that were hired in a second wave due to veteran officials opting out of this season.

Field judge Land Clark was promoted to the referee position following the on-field retirement of referee Walt Anderson, who is now a part of the triumvirate in charge at Art McNally Gameday Central. In the past 7 seasons, the NFL has promoted 11 officials to the referee position.

The NFL has added a fourth woman to the officiating crews with the hiring of Denise Crudup as a replay assistant. Three other women will serve as replay assistants at Art McNally Gameday Central in New York during the season. These new centralized replay assistants were all hired from NCAA Division II conferences. Also of note, there are three former NFL players on the officiating roster: back judge Steve Freeman, field judge Nate Jones, and umpire Terry Killens.

Senior staff

• Al Riveron, senior vice president of officiating – centralized replay representative
• Perry Fewell, senior vice president of officiating administration
• Walt Anderson, senior vice president of officiating training and development
• Russell Yurk, vice president of instant replay – centralized replay representative
• Bret Ayers, director of video technology

Regional officiating coordinators

• Garth DeFelice
• Bill Leavy
• Wayne Mackie
• Doug Rosenbaum
• Gary Slaughter
• Rob Vernatchi

Centralized replay assistants

• Desiree Abrams
• Sebrina Brunson
• Artenzia Young-Seigler

Crews

Football Zebras has been able to generally assemble the crews on a regional basis, but we can’t say this enough that everything is subject to change. Largely, these crews listed here are based on their Week 1 assignments, unless other information was obtained. Two west-coast crews are especially fluid this season and are grouped based on common assignments with the referee.

Crew members are listed with their years of NFL experience, including the upcoming season, the crews they were on last season, the college attended, and occupations. A replay official and replay assistant are assigned to each crew, and are also listed.

East crews

East 1

East 2

East 3

East 4

East 5

East 6

East 7

Central crews

Central 1

Central 2

Central 3

Central 4

Central 5

West/flex crews

West 1

West 2

Note: The side judge and back judge will flex for this crew. This is Clark’s first season at the referee position.

West 3

Flex 1

This crew will flex between western and central assignments.

Flex 2

This crew will be west-coast based and flex as needed.

Swing officials

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