Peyton Yanagi - Special Teams Quality Control - Football Coaches

Coach Yanagi At 2025 Spring Practice 2025

Peyton Yanagi

Title:
Special Teams Quality Control
Email:
peyton.yanagi@westpoint.edu

Peyton Yanagi enters his second season on the Army coaching staff in 2025.

Yanagi works closely with special teams coordinator Sean Saturnio to develop the special teams units, primarily working with the long snappers.

Yanagi comes to West Point after spending the 2023 season as the special teams coordinator at the University of Nevada, mentoring K Brandon Talton, who finished his career as Nevada's career leader in field goal makes (81).

Before the 2023 season at Nevada, he spent a short stint as a special teams intern at Tulsa and in 2022 was the Special Teams/OLB graduate assistant at Nevada.

Yanagi is a graduate of the University of Oregon in 2022, spending four seasons (2018-21) as a long snapper for the Ducks, taking home several academic honors, such as being on the Pac-12 Conference Academic Honor Roll and twice being named an Oregon Scholar-Athlete. As a member of the Ducks, he was a two-time Pac-12 Champion (2019-20) and was a Rose Bowl Champion (2019).

A Honolulu native, Yanagi helped lead Saint Louis School to back-to-back Division I state titles in 2016 and 2017. Following his senior season in 2017, he was selected to play in the Polynesian Bowl.