Mike Saffell serves as Assistant Tight Ends for University of California, Berkeley's Football program in Berkeley. The Cal source profile describes Saffell's current role and recent program context, including that Travers Family Head Football Coach Tosh Lupoi announced the return of Mike Saffell as the team’s assistant tight ends coach on January 15, 2026. Saffell returns for his 10th season at Cal as a player or coach and his third campaign as a full-time member of the coaching staff in 2026.
The same profile adds background on Saffell's coaching path, team results, and player-development record. (2025) become the nation's top pass-catching tight ends over the last two seasons, with Endries also leading all Cal players in both receptions and yards receiving. At the age of 24, Saffell was promoted from a second-year graduate assistant to the team's tight ends coach between the 2023 regular season and the Bears' appearance in the Radiance Technologies Independence Bowl. Saffell played four seasons at Cal as an offensive lineman (2017-20). For the ICDB record, that background gives readers a fuller picture of the experience Mike Saffell brings to the Football staff.
