2022 USFL season
Officiating crews for the 2022 USFL season
The USFL has 35 officials on 5 crews for the 2022 season.
Spring football is on the agenda again in 2022 as the USFL makes its comeback — if in name only — on April 16. Football Zebras has obtained the officiating crews for the league’s reprise. The USFL uses the NFL’s 7-person mechanics and has 33 officials from Football Bowl Subdivision conferences on five crews.
Mike Pereira is the head of USFL officiating, a position he had in the NFL from 2001 to 2009. Ron Baynes, a wing official in the NFL from 1987 to 2000, is the officiating supervisor. Steve Strimling, a Pac-12 referee, is the officiating coordinator, a position he had with the Alliance of American Football and the XFL.
Most of the officials have been scouted by the NFL under its Officiating Development Program, but the league had no formal role in the USFL staffing process. The USFL officiating staff includes four women.
For the first season, eight teams with legacy names to the original USFL will compete. Despite having geographical names, only one team will actually play a home game, as all games will be played in Birmingham, Ala., for at least the first season, with the plan to play in the home cities in 2023.
Officials are listed by their position and uniform number, their current college conference, and seasons worked in an NFL development program. Assignments for last season’s bowl games and conference championships are listed. The ODP seasons are listed, which are the preseason programs except where a different development program is noted. The 2022 ODP has not yet been announced.
- *assigned to a college invitational exhibition game only
- † development program for former players
- 🇪🇺NFL Europe
- 🇨🇦CFL/NFL development program
- 🅰️2019 AAF
- ❎2020 XFL
- §cancelled bowl game
| Conference | Seasons in ODP | 2021 Bowls / Other Pro Experience | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 72 | Bryan Banks | Big Ten | 2020-21, 2022* | LA Bowl (as CJ) |
| U | 65 | Francisco Villar | Pac-12 | 2020-21, 2022* | Cotton Bowl 🅰️❎ |
| DJ | 67 | Derek Anderson | Big 12 | 2020-21, 2022* | Armed Forces Bowl (as R) |
| LJ | 42 | Tangela Mitchell-Ross | SWAC | 2021 | ❎ |
| FJ | 56 | Jason Ledet | Big 12 | 2019-2021 | Orange Bowl |
| SJ | 88 | Raymond Daniel | Big Ten | 2018-21, 2022* | |
| BJ | 13 | Martin Hankins | SEC | 2018-21, 2022* | Rose Bowl |
| Conference | Seasons in ODP | 2021 Bowls / Other Pro Experience | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 10 | James Carter | SEC | 2017-18, 2019*, 2020-21 | First Responders Bowl 🅰️❎ |
| U | 3 | Brandon Cruse | Big 12 | 2018-21, 2022* | Big 12 Championship Game (as R) (🅰️❎ as R) |
| DJ | 47 | Robin DeLorenzo | Big Ten | 2017-21, 2022* | Fiesta Bowl (as LJ) (🅰️❎ as LJ) |
| LJ | 21 | Max Causey | Pac-12 | 2018-21, 2022* | Cotton Bowl (as SJ) (🅰️❎as SJ) |
| FJ | 29 | Jimmy DeBell | Conference USA | 2007🇪🇺 | NFL side judge 2009-14 (🅰️❎ as BJ) |
| SJ | 9 | Tuta Salaam | Big 12 | 2020-21, 2022* | Outback Bowl (as R) |
| BJ | 24 | Tra Boger | SEC | 2019-21, 2022* | Peach Bowl |
| Conference | Seasons in ODP | 2021 Bowls / Other Pro Experience | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 22 | Duane Heydt | ACC | 2019-21 | National Championship Game |
| U | 4 | Amanda Sauer | Big Ten | 2017 | 🅰️❎ |
| DJ | 62 | Cravone Barrett | Pac-12 | 2018-21 | Cotton Bowl (as LJ) 🅰️❎ |
| LJ | 58 | Walter Flowers | SEC | SEC Championship Game | |
| FJ | 8 | Glen Fucik | SEC | 2018-21, 2022* | Fenway Bowl§ 🅰️❎ |
| SJ | 98 | Frank Steratore | Big Ten | 2016-21 | Fiesta Bowl 🅰️❎ |
| BJ | 11 | Tyree Walton | Big 12 | 2020, 2021* | 🅰️❎ |
| Conference | Seasons in ODP | 2021 Bowls / Other Pro Experience | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 49 | Alex Moore | SEC | 2020, 2021* | Fenway Bowl§ |
| U | 50 | Mike Morton | ACC | 2014† , 2015-17, 2018†, 2020-21 | ACC Championship Game 🅰️❎ |
| DJ | 85 | Dale Keller | Pac-12 | 2020-21 | Pac-12 Championship Game, Cheez-It Bowl (both as LJ) 🅰️❎ |
| LJ | 17 | Brett Bergman | Big Ten | Duke’s Mayo Bowl 🅰️❎ | |
| FJ | 99 | Lo Van Pham | Big 12 | 2018-20, 2021-22* | Mountain West Championship Game (as SJ), Holiday Bowl§ 🅰️❎ |
| SJ | 73 | Justin Larrew | SEC | 2016-17, 2018*, 2020-21 | SEC Championship Game 🅰️❎ |
| BJ | 81 | Jacques Hooper | ACC | 2018-2021, 2022* | ACC Championship Game |
| Conference | Seasons in ODP | 2021 Bowls/Other Pro Exp | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| R | 19 | Larry Smith | Big Ten | 2016, 2020*, 2021 | Sun Bowl (🅰️❎ as CJ) |
| U | 27 | Adam Savoie | American Athletic | 2017-20 | National Championship Game (as CJ) (🅰️❎ as CJ) |
| DJ | 6 | Ryan Hagan | SEC | Rose Bowl | |
| LJ | 2 | Quentin Givens | Big 12 | 2015-17, 2020-21 | Armed Forces Bowl 🅰️❎ |
| FJ | 80 | Daniel Gautreaux | SEC | 2017, 2020-21 | SEC Championship Game 🅰️❎ |
| SJ | 5 | LaShell Nelson | Big Ten | 2016-18, 2019🇨🇦, 2020, 2021* | Duke’s Mayo Bowl ❎ |
| BJ | 37 | Joe Johnston | Pac-12 | 2017, 2018*, 2019-21, 2022* | Birmingham Bowl ❎ |
