{"id":790172,"date":"2026-03-03T23:59:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:59:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790172\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T23:59:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T23:59:17","slug":"wisconsin-football-badgers-hiring-nfl-assistant-as-next-wrs-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/790172\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Football: Badgers hiring NFL assistant as next WRs coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Wisconsin Badgers are hiring Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Ari Confesor as their next wide receivers coach, according to 247Sports\u2019s Matt Zenitz and Nick Osen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Confesor joined the Jaguars staff as a part of the NFL\u2019s Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship program, initially spending the 2025 offseason with the team before continuing to be on the staff. He\u2019s also been with the Kansas City Chiefs before.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Prior to that, Confesor was the wide receivers coach at Wake Forest in 2023 and 2024 after four years coaching wide receivers at Air Force. Now, he\u2019s back in college football with the Badgers, replacing Jordan Reid, who left to take an assistant quarterbacks position with the Atlanta Falcons under head coach Kevin Stefanski.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Confesor has been a longtime college football assistant after a stellar career at Holy Cross from 2000-03, where he was a two-time All-American and set records as the school\u2019s all-time leader in receiving yards, kickoff return yards, and all-purpose yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After his playing career, Confesor kicked off his coaching career at Rhode Island, spending time as the secondary, linebackers, special teams, and wide receivers coach from 2009-17, with a stint with the Kansas City Chiefs in their scouting department in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">He then returned to his Alma Mater, Holy Cross, for a season as their receivers coach and passing game coordinator before heading to Air Force from 2019-22.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Wisconsin overhauled its wideout room this offseason, adding a multitude of transfers. They brought in Oklahoma State\u2019s Shamar Rigby, Southeastern Louisiana\u2019s Jaylon Domingeaux, Nebraska\u2019s Malachi Coleman, and Oklahoma\u2019s Zion Kearney in addition to three freshmen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Now, they\u2019ve also got a new position coach, marking head coach Luke Fickell\u2019s third wide receivers coach in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Wisconsin Badgers are hiring Jacksonville Jaguars assistant Ari Confesor as their next wide receivers coach, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2060],"tags":[7,212,125,2401,213,6,2787,65595],"class_list":{"0":"post-790172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-jacksonville-jaguars","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-jacksonville","10":"tag-jacksonville-jaguars","11":"tag-jacksonvillejaguars","12":"tag-jaguars","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-wisconsin-football","15":"tag-wisconsin-football-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116167964539056830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}