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Peyton Yanagi

  • Title
    Special Teams Coordinator
Peyton Yanagi returns to Reno as Nevada's Special Teams Coordinator in 2023.

Yanagi, a Nevada graduate assistant in 2022, was previously in an analyst role at Tulsa.
 
He spent four seasons (2018-21) at Oregon as a long snapper, his final three years overlapping with Wilson’s time on the Ducks staff (2019-21). During his time in Eugene, Yanagi was part of two Ducks Pac-12 Champion squads (2019-20) as well as the 2019 Rose Bowl Champion team.

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, he was selected to play in the 2017 Polynesian Bowl.