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David Josephson enters his first season as wide receivers coach and pass-game coordinator in 2025, following a season as tight ends coach, which was announced by George A. Munger Head Coach Ray Priore on February 1, 2024.

Penn began the 2024 season battling FBS-bound Delaware close on the road before picking up victories against Colgate, Bucknell, Brown, and Cornell. In his first season with the Quakers, Josephson played a big role in the final year for senior tight ends Bryce Myers and Justin Cayenne. Both players played all 10 games with nine receptions and a touchdown each.

Josephson served as Yale's tight ends coach during the 2023 season. Under his guidance, tight end Jackson Hawes earned second-team All-Ivy honors and the Bulldogs won their second consecutive Ivy League title.
 
Before he arrived in New Haven, Josephson served three seasons as Johns Hopkins’ offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach under Penn offensive coordinator Greg Chimera.
 
At JHU, Josephson directed an offense that averaged nearly 44 points and 500 yards per game in 2022, both of which ranked sixth in the nation. The Blue Jays finished with a 10-1 overall record winning the Centennial/Mac Bowl Game. Four Blue Jays earned Academic All-America honors, three earned D3football.com All-America honors, five earned All-Region honors and nine were selected to the All-Centennial Conference team. Josephson’s quarterback, Ryan Stevens, was selected as both the conference and region player of the year on offense. Over a two-year span, Josephson guided Stevens to completing 69 percent of his passes for 6,570 yards and 68 touchdowns against just 14 interceptions.
 
In 2021, the Blue Jays set school records for points per game (46.5) and passing yards per game (346.8), ranking eighth nationally in scoring offense and third in passing offense. The Blue Jays finished with a 10-2 record advancing to the NCAA Sweet Sixteen. Five Blue Jays earned D3football.com All-Region honors, eight earned All-Centennial Conference honors and four of Johns Hopkins’ national-record eight CoSIDA Academic All-Americans played offense in 2021.
 
In his first season as offensive coordinator in 2019, Josephson led a Blue Jay offense that averaged 36.4 points and 459.3 yards per game.  Both of those averages rank among the top 10 in program history as the 459.3 yards rank ninth and the 36.4 points rank 10th. Josephson’s offense also cracked the program’s top 10 in passing yards (3,530/4th) and touchdown passes (27/T5th) while five of his players earned All-Centennial Conference honors. 
 
In 2018, under the direction of head coach David Shaw, Josephson served as a graduate assistant at Stanford and worked with the Cardinal secondary.  He assisted in all facets of game-planning, film breakdown and data analysis and worked closely with First Team All-Pac-12 defensive back Paulson Adebo, who led the nation with 24 pass breakups in 2018.  Stanford posted a 9-4 record, including a 6-3 mark in the Pac-12, and defeated Pitt in the Sun Bowl. 
 
Josephson had previously served as an assistant coach at Johns Hopkins from 2015-17 and helped guide the Blue Jays to a three-year record of 31-4, including a 29-1 mark in the regular season. The Blue Jays won the outright Centennial Conference title in 2015 and 2016 and shared the title in 2017.  Johns Hopkins advanced to the NCAA Playoffs in each of those three seasons with appearances in the second round in 2015 and 2016. During this span Josephson served as the special teams coordinator (2017) after assisting with special teams in 2015 and 2016.  He also coached the Blue Jay wide receivers (2016) defensive backs (2015, 2017) and oversaw the team’s recruiting efforts during his final year.
 
Josephson originally joined the Johns Hopkins coaching staff in 2013 after his playing career was cut short by an injury. Undaunted, he continued his contribution to the program by quickly becoming a valuable student assistant - immersing himself in all aspects of the coaching staff. He also spent the spring of 2017 as an offensive assistant at Yale.
 
A native of Old Greenwich, Conn., Josephson graduated from Johns Hopkins with honors and a degree in economics and a minor in entrepreneurship and management.
 
THE JOSEPHSON FILE
Tight Ends Coach – Penn, 2024-present
Tight Ends Coach – Yale, 2023
Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach – Johns Hopkins, 2019-22
Graduate Assistant – Stanford, 2018
Defensive Backs Coach/Special Teams Coordinator – Johns Hopkins, 2017
Wide Receivers Coach – Johns Hopkins, 2016
Defensive Backs Coach – Johns Hopkins, 2015
Student Assistant – Johns Hopkins, 2013-14
 
Hometown – Old Greenwich, Conn.
 
Education
2015 B.A. – Johns Hopkins