Roster of Officials Finalized

THREE NEW REFEREES, 13 FIRST-YEAR NFL OFFICIALS AMONG 2014 CLASS

The NFL roster of game officials for the 2014 season will include 13 first-year NFL officials – and three new referees – among the group of 119, the league announced today.

First-year official BRAD ALLEN will join the NFL as a referee from the Atlantic Coast Conference, where he has been a referee for the past nine seasons and was regarded as one of the best in college football. Allen has refereed several major bowl games, including the 2012 Rose Bowl and 2014 Sugar Bowl. Allen replaces veteran referee MIKE CAREY, who will join CBS Sports as a rules analyst.

Veteran NFL officials RONALD TORBERT and CRAIG WROLSTAD are also new referees in 2014, replacing retired referees SCOTT GREEN and RON WINTER. Wrolstad has spent the past 11 seasons as a field judge while Torbert has worked the past four as a side judge.

The 13 first-year NFL officials are all graduates of the NFL Officiating Development program, which is designed to train top college football officials in all aspects of NFL officiating.

“Our first-year officials were all among the best in college football, including Brad Allen, one of our new referees,” said NFL Vice President of Officiating DEAN BLANDINO. “Brad was an outstanding referee for many years in the ACC and we are excited about having him on the field. Ron and Craig have proven to be outstanding NFL officials and they also are ready to assume the referee position.”

The 13 first-year NFL officials:

Uniform No.	Name	Position	College	2013 College Conference
122	Brad Allen	R	Pembroke State	ACC
88	Brad Freeman	FJ	Mississippi State	SEC
103	Eugene Hall	FJ	North Texas	BIG 12
83	Shawn Hochuli	SJ	Claremont	PAC-12
117	John Jenkins	FJ	St. Mary’s	PAC-12
55	Alex Kemp	SJ	Central Michigan	B1G
39	Rich Martinez	BJ	Canisius	SEC
92	Bryan Neale	U	Indiana	B1G
1	Scott Novak	SJ	Phoenix	BIG 12
17	Steve Patrick	BJ	Jacksonville State	SEC
131	Mark Pellis	U	Allegheny	AAC
13	Patrick Turner	HL	Cal State-Long Beach	PAC-12
123	Ed Walker	LJ	San Jose State	PAC-12

The complete 2014 NFL roster of officials:

Uniform No.	Name	Position	College	NFL Exp.(Including 2014)
122	Brad Allen	R	Pembroke State	1
20	Barry Anderson	FJ	North Carolina State	8
66	Walt Anderson	R	Texas	19
108	Gary Arthur	LJ	Wright State	18
72	Michael Banks	SJ	Illinois State	13
56	Allen Baynes	SJ	Auburn	7
59	Rusty Baynes	LJ	Auburn-Montgomery	5
32	Jeff Bergman	LJ	Robert Morris	23
91	Jerry Bergman	HL	Robert Morris	13
34	Clete Blakeman	R	Nebraska	7
23	Jerome Boger	R	Morehouse College	11
18	Byron Boston	LJ	Austin	20
74	Derick Bowers	HL	East Central	12
98	Greg Bradley	HL	Tennessee	6
31	Chad Brown	U	East Texas State	23
43	Terry Brown	FJ	Tennessee-Knoxville	9
11	Fred Bryan	U	Northern Iowa	6
86	Jimmy Buchanan	FJ	South Carolina State	6
134	Ed Camp	HL	William Paterson	15
60	Gary Cavaletto	FJ	Hancock	12
41	Boris Cheek	FJ	Morgan State	19
51	Carl Cheffers	R	California-Irvine	15
95	James Coleman	SJ	Arkansas	10
65	Walt Coleman	R	Arkansas	26
99	Tony Corrente	R	Cal State-Fullerton	20
58	Jimmy DeBell	SJ	SUNY-Brockport	6
6	Kirk Dornan	BJ	Central Washington	21
27	Lee Dyer	BJ	Tennessee-Chattanooga	12
3	Scott Edwards	SJ	Alabama	16
81	Roy Ellison	U	Savannah State	12
61	Keith Ferguson	BJ	San Jose State	15
64	Dan Ferrell	U	Cal State-Fullerton	12
71	Ruben Fowler	U	Huston-Tillotson	9
88	Brad Freeman	FJ	Mississippi State	1
133	Steve Freeman	BJ	Mississippi State	14
80	Greg Gautreaux	FJ	S.W. Louisiana	13
103	Eugene Hall	FJ	North Texas	1
49	Richard Hall	U	Arizona	11
40	Butch Hannah	U	Middle Tennessee State	16
125	Laird Hayes	SJ	Princeton	20
54	George Hayward	HL	Missouri Western	24
93	Scott Helverson	BJ	Iowa	12
29	Adrian Hill	FJ	Buffalo	5
97	Tom Hill	SJ	Carson Newman	16
28	Mark Hittner	HL	Pittsburg State	18
85	Ed Hochuli	R	Texas-El Paso	25
83	Shawn Hochuli	SJ	Claremont	1
82	Buddy Horton	FJ	Oregon State	16
37	Jim Howey	HL	Erskine College	16
35	John Hussey	LJ	Idaho State	13
76	Darrell Jenkins	U	San Jose State	13
117	John Jenkins	FJ	St. Mary’s	1
101	Carl Johnson	LJ	Nicholls State	11
55	Alex Kemp	SJ	Central Michigan	1
121	Paul King	U	Nicholls State	6
21	Jeff Lamberth	SJ	Texas A&M	13
73	Joe Larrew	SJ	St. Louis	13
127	Bill Leavy	R	San Jose State	20
130	Darryll Lewis	LJ	Dartmouth	16
89	Jon Lucivansky	FJ	Minnesota	6
106	Wayne Mackie	HL	Colgate	8
10	Julian Mapp	LJ	Grambling State	6
107	Ron Marinucci	LJ	Glassboro State	18
39	Rich Martinez	BJ	Canisius	1
77	Terry McAulay	R	Louisiana State	17
5	John McGrath	HL	Kentucky	13
8	Dana McKenzie	HL	Toledo	7
110	Philip McKinnely	HL	UCLA	12
48	Jim Mello	HL	Northeastern	11
118	Dave Meslow	FJ	Augsburg College	4
78	Greg Meyer	SJ	Texas Christian	13
115	Tony Michalek	U	Indiana	13
111	Terrence Miles	BJ	Arizona State	7
135	Peter Morelli	R	St. Mary’s	18
92	Bryan Neale	U	Indiana	1
1	Scott Novak	SJ	Phoenix	1
124	Carl Paganelli	U	Michigan State	16
105	Dino Paganelli	BJ	Aquinas College	9
46	Perry Paganelli	BJ	Hope College	17
132	John Parry	R	Purdue	15
17	Steve Patrick	BJ	Jacksonville State	1
15	Rick Patterson	SJ	Wofford	19
79	Kent Payne	HL	Nebraska Wesleyan	11
131	Mark Pellis	U	Allegheny	AAC
9	Mark Perlman	LJ	Salem	14
47	Tim Podraza	LJ	Nebraska	7
109	Dyrol Prioleau	FJ	Johnson C. Smith	8
30	Todd Prukop	BJ	Cal State-Fullerton	6
63	Jim Quirk	BJ	Middlebury	5
44	Jeff Rice	U	Northwestern	20
67	Doug Rosenbaum	FJ	Illinois Wesleyan	14
129	Bill Schuster	U	Alfred	15
45	Jeff Seeman	LJ	Minnesota	13
104	Dale Shaw	BJ	Allegheny	2
90	Mike Spanier	LJ	St. Cloud State	16
24	Tom Stabile	HL	Slippery Rock	20
12	Greg Steed	BJ	Howard	12
84	Mark Steinkerchner	LJ	Akron	21
22	Steve Stelljes	HL	Friends	13
68	Tom Stephan	LJ	Pittsburg State	16
114	Gene Steratore	R	Kent State	12
112	Tony Steratore	BJ	California	15
102	Bruce Stritesky	U	Embry Riddle	9
100	Tom Symonette	LJ	Florida	11
62	Ronald Torbert	R	Michigan State	5
42	Jeff Triplette	R	Wake Forest	19
13	Patrick Turner	HL	Cal State-Long Beach	1
75	Rob Vernatchi	SJ	California-Riverside	11
36	Tony Veteri	HL	Manhattan College	23
52	Bill Vinovich	R	San Diego	9
25	Bob Waggoner	FJ	Juniata College	18
123	Ed Walker	LJ	San Jose State	1
96	Undrey Wash	U	Texas-Arlington	15
7	Keith Washington	SJ	Virginia Military Institute	7
116	Mike Weatherford	SJ	Oklahoma State	13
119	Greg Wilson	BJ	USC	7
4	Craig Wrolstad	R	Washington	12
38	Greg Yette	BJ	Howard	5
33	Steve Zimmer	FJ	Hofstra	18

Joining the 119 NFL officials on the field this summer will be the 21 officials at the most advanced level of the Officiating Development Program. That group will officiate a preseason game as part of an NFL officiating crew in August and includes two females, SARAH THOMAS, a line judge who returns to the program for a second year, and MAIA CHAKA, a head linesman in her first year in the NFL program. Both Thomas and Chaka officiated in Conference USA in 2013.

A look at the advanced participants in the Officiating Development Program, who will be candidates for positions with NFL officiating crews beginning in 2015:

NAME		2013 CONFERENCE
Maia Chaka	HL	Conference USA
Kevin Codey	LJ	American Athletic
Walt Coleman IV	LJ	BIG 12
Hugo Cruz	HL	Conference USA
Ryan Dickson	FJ	PAC-12
Lark Jones	SJ	Conference USA
Jeremy Lomax	SJ	American Athletic
Bart Longson	HL	PAC-12
Kevin Mar	U	BIG 12
Clay Martin	LJ	Conference USA
Harold Mitchell, Jr.	HL	SWAC/C-USA
Jonah Monroe	BJ	American Athletic
Larry Neal, Jr.	BJ	Conference USA
Lyndon Nixon	BJ	BIG 12
Clay Reynard	SJ	PAC-12
Aaron Santi	FJ	PAC-12
Shawn Smith	BJ	B1G
Chris Snead	U	SEC
Sarah Thomas	LJ	Conference USA
Jabir Walker	FJ	SEC
Doug Wilson	U	PAC-12