New Penn State coach Matt Campbell has now filled every open coordinator/position coach slot.
The last box to address was who would replace Stan Drayton as running backs coach, and it ended up being Savon Huggins from Boston College, first reported by 247Sports.
This is a big get for Penn State.
Something that makes Huggins a big asset for PSU are his ties to the state of New Jersey, wish has been a recruiting hotbed for Penn State in the past and could be again.
Huggins is from Jackson, New Jersey, played at Rutgers in the early 2010s and then coached at Somerville (2016-18) and St. Peter’s (2019).
So he has connections, and those connections can help Penn State land some big time talent.
Huggins was at BC for four seasons, the most successful one being in 2023, when BC finished second in the ACC in rushing average (198.8 yards per game.)
When head coach Jeff Hafley left BC to be the defensive coordinator of the Green Bay Packers, BC’s new coach— a guy named Bill O’Brien— kept Huggins on the staff.
Huggins has had somewhat of a meteoric rise in coaching.
He started his career soon after college, spending three seasons as an offensive/defensive assistant at Somerville.
In 2019, he spent time with the Miami Dolphins through the Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship.
After that, he returned to his alma mater St. Peter’s, where he spent the 2019 season as an offensive assistant.
Add Nittany Sports Now as a preferred source in Google! Click here to add us.Huggins then began his college coaching career in 2020, where he was a wide receivers assistant for Lance Leipold and Buffalo.
He became a position coach for the first time in January 2021, at the age of 28, when UMass named him its running backs coach.
But he never coached a game for UMass because Boston College hired him as recruiting advisor.
By the 2022 season, he was the running backs coach.
Here’s Huggins’ full file, courtesy of Boston College Athletics.
2016-18: Somerville (N.J.) High School (Offensive & Defensive Assistant)
2019: Miami Dolphins (Fellowship)
2020: Buffalo (Wide Receivers Assistant)
2021: UMass (Running Backs)
2021: Boston College (Recruiting Advisor)
2022-present: Boston College (Running Backs)
