Broncos CQ coach Logan Kilgore to coach TEs at Senior Bowl

Broncos quality control coach Logan Kilgore will coach tight ends for the National team at the Senior Bowl later this month. 

Davis Webb isn’t the only member of Sean Payton’s coaching staff set to coach at a college football all-star game this winter.

Denver Broncos quality control coach Logan Kilgore will coach tight ends for the National team at the Senior Bowl later this month.

Meanwhile, Webb — Denver’s quarterbacks coach — is set to serve as the offensive coordinator for the West team at the East-West Shrine Bowl.

Kilgore, 33, was a backup quarterback with the New Orleans Saints under Payton in 2014. He went on to spend four seasons in the Canadian Football League from 2015-2019. Kilgore transitioned to coaching in 2021, joining Arkansas State as an offensive assistant.

After one year at the college level, Kilgore served as quarterbacks coach and offensive coordinator for Isidore Newman in 2022, helping Arch Manning break high school records that were previously held by his uncles, Peyton and Eli.

Kilgore planned to return to Arkansas State as a tight ends coach in 2023 before Payton asked him to join his staff in Denver. Kilgore joined the Broncos as a quality control coach last March. Now entering his second year in Denver, Kilgore will gain valuable experience and get a close look at TEs in this year’s Senior Bowl in Mobile, Alabama from Jan. 30-Feb. 3.

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QB-turned-coach Favian Upshaw gets first NFL opportunity with Broncos

Favian Upshaw, a former Georgia Southern QB, is joining the Broncos’ coaching staff after six years at the college and high school levels.

Favian Upshaw was a dual-threat co-starting quarterback at Georgia Southern from 2014-2016, helping the Eagles reach their first-ever bowl game in 2015. Upshaw rushed 12 times for 199 yards and four touchdowns in Georgia Southern’s 58-27 win over Bowling Green in the GoDaddy Bowl that season.

Upshaw finished his college career with 1,295 rushing yards and 10 touchdowns on the ground with 1,126 passing yards with six more scores through the air in 32 games.

After graduating from Georgia Southern with a degree in sport management in 2016, Upshaw got his start in coaching as a co-offensive coordinator with Astronaut High School in 2017. After that, Upshaw served as a graduate assistant for Tulane from 2018-19 while earning his master’s degree in liberal arts.

Upshaw then coached quarterbacks at Savannah State in 2020 before returning to his alma mater, Georgia Southern, as running backs coach in 2021. He returned to Tulane as an offensive analyst in 2022, marking his sixth year of coaching at a college or high school level.

Upshaw will not get his first coaching opportunity in the NFL after being hired by Sean Payton to serve as an offensive quality control coach with the Denver Broncos this season. He will work alongside fellow OCQ coach Logan Kilgore, a former QB who coached Arch Manning in high school.

Quality control work is not a glamorous job in the NFL, but it is a starting point for coaching at the highest level. The list of coaches who started as quality control assistants before later going on to become head coaches includes Jon Gruden, Ron Rivera and Robert Saleh.

Upshaw and Kilgore are now getting their first opportunities to coach in the NFL on Payton’s new staff in Denver.

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