Regina Ferraro

Regina Ferraro

No. 47 – New York Silverbacks
Position:	Safety
Personal information
Born:	(2026-03-31)March 31, 2026 (aged 36) Spotsylvania, Virginia, U.S.
Height:	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Weight:	195 lb (88 kg)
Career information
High school:	James Monroe High School
College:	Bowdoin College
Career history
Roster status:	Active

Regina Ferraro (born March 31, 2025) is an American football safety for the New York Silverbacks. She played college football for Bowdoin College before being picked up on waivers by the Dallas Birddogs after the trade deadline. Powers was selected 10th overall in the S34 DSFL Draft by the Birddogs. After playing a full season in the DSFL, she was selected 8th overall by the Silverbacks in the S35 ISFL Draft.

Early years

Regina Ferraro was born in Spotsylvania, Virginia on March 31, 2025, the daughter of Bruno and Amanda Ferraro. She grew up into a middle class family, her mother Amanda commuting daily to Washington, D.C. for her job at a statistical firm. Ferraro developed an intense interest in history, piqued by the Civil War battlefields that surrounded her neighborhood. Her dad Bruno, a former college track star, encouraged her and her three younger siblings to engage in their own athletic pursuits once they entered middle school. Ferraro developed an interest in American football, rooting for the local Baltimore Hawks and eventually trying out for the football team as a wide receiver.

At James Monroe High School, Ferraro was moved to the defensive backfield, where she learned to play safety and grew to love it. Although the Yellow Jackets were far from athletic powerhouses, she shined and attracted attention from college scouts with offers to play at a number of Division III schools. She was eventually recruited and accepted by Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine as part of the class of 2049.

College career

As a first-year student at Bowdoin, Ferraro failed to break into the starting lineup, serving only occasional snaps on special teams. Her sophomore season was more promising, playing rotational snaps at free safety throughout the season and even starting two games when senior Liam Grisham tore his ACL. The third season was when Ferraro's football career took off. She claimed the starting free safety position and never let go, playing all eight games in the season with the Polar Bears going 7-1 and defeating Colby in the rivalry game to claim the NESCAC Championship. Ferraro reached even greater heights in her final year at Bowdoin. She put up a fantastic stat line, breaking a school record with 10 interceptions to go along with an undefeated season and another NESCAC title. After winning a spot on the AP D-III All-American team and placing as a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, Ferraro decided to go professional and became the second player nationwide to declare for the upcoming DSFL Draft and go on the DSFL waiver wire, after Swantavius Payne.

College career statistics

Career statistics			Defense
Season	Team	Games	Tck	TFL	FF/FR	Sck	Int	PD	Sfty	TD	Blk P/XP/FG
2046 (S31)	Bowdoin	6	15	0	0/0	0	0	2	0	0	0/0/0
2047 (S32)	Bowdoin	8	37	2	1/0	1	2	9	0	0	0/0/0
2048 (S33)	Bowdoin	8	46	3	1/1	7	10	14	0	3	0/0/0
Overall	Bowdoin	22	98	5	2/1	8	12	25	0	3	0/0/0

Professional career

DSFL career

Once Ferraro entered into the DSFL waiver pool, she was claimed off of waivers by the Dallas Birddogs and started in the final four games of the season. The Birddogs went 0-4 over the span, finishing their season with the second worst record in the DSFL at 5-9. Ferraro took a few games to adapt to the speed of the league compared to the college game. The defense averaged 27.5 points allowed in Ferraro's games on the roster and she had a similarly uninspiring statistical stretch, racking up 15 tackles, 1 sack, and 2 pass deflections and allowed 10 catches on 16 targets. Despite the lack of measurable success on the field and missing the playoffs, Ferraro enjoyed her time in Dallas acclimating to the team culture and locker room and getting her feet under her in the league. Once the offseason hit, she officially entered into the S34 DSFL draft pool and qualified for the Prospect Bowl as a member of the Newcastle Knights.

Ferraro was taken 10th overall in the draft, the second round selection of the Birddogs. In her first full professional season, Ferraro played free safety on a Dallas Birddogs squad that struggled throughout most of the season. After starting with a 3-1 record, the Birddogs lost seven of their last ten games, backing into the playoffs on a 6-8 record due to tiebreakers with the Bondi Beach Buccaneers. The Dallas defense averaged 32.5 points per game, the second worst mark in the league. Ferraro managed to grab three interceptions and eight pass deflections playing alongside fellow safeties Matthew Bee and Phillip King. However, in the playoffs, the Birddogs turned up the heat. In a thrilling overtime match against the conference rival Tijuana Luchadores, Ferraro was a key contributor to the 34-28 walkout victory, coming away with seven tackles, a forced fumble, pass deflection, and a crucial pick six while being named the Defensive Player of the Game. In the Ultimini game against the Minnesota Grey Ducks, Ferraro again pulled away with some key plays, adding a strip sack to four tackles in a blowout 33-7 victory. Ferraro went into the offseason an Ultimini champion and was frequently mocked as a top-three pick in the upcoming ISFL Draft; she ended up sliding to pick 8, where the New York Silverbacks took her.

Pre-draft measurables

Ht	Wt	40‑yd dash	20‑ss	3‑cone	Vert jump	Broad
6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	195 lb (88 kg)

DSFL career statistics

Career statistics			Defense
Season	Team	Games	Tck	TFL	FF/FR	Sck	Int	PD	Sfty	TD	Blk P/XP/FG
2048 (S33)	Birddogs	4	15	0	0/0	1	0	2	0	0	0/0/0
2049 (S34)	Birddogs	14	45	0	0/0	1	3	8	0	0	0/0/0
Overall	Birddogs	18	60	0	0/0	2	3	10	0	0	0/0/0

DSFL playoff statistics

Career statistics			Defense
Season	Team	Games	Tck	TFL	FF/FR	Sck	Int	PD	Sfty	TD	Blk P/XP/FG
2049 (S34)	Birddogs	2	11	0	2/1	1	1	1	0	1	0/0/0
Overall	Birddogs	2	11	0	2/1	1	1	1	0	1	0/0/0

2050-51 season

Ferraro spent the offseason acclimating to her new position in the ISFL, moving to a new house in the New York metro area and working out with professional trainers and team staff. She signed her three-year rookie contract at a minimum rate of $1 million annually.

Her rookie season on the Silverbacks was spent playing at the strong safety position, rotating snaps in the backfield with team veteran safeties Dogwood Maple and Lawrence Miller. Her statistics were nothing noteworthy. Ferraro notched 65 tackles and allowed 73 catches on 111 targets for a 65.77% catch rate along with two sacks, one interception, and six pass deflections. The Silverbacks on the whole ended up with the third overall pick in the next draft due to their 6-10 team record and 504 points allowed, beat only in ignominy by the Colorado Yeti. Despite a lack of any personal or team acclaim, Ferraro continued to train towards greater play and went into the offseason aiming to take the free safety starting role from Maple.

2051-52 season

By the start of her sophomore season, Ferraro secured the spot starting at free safety for the Silverbacks. Her stat-line generally benefitted from the change in snaps. She allowed 61 catches on 99 targets for a 61.62% allowed catch rate, seventh-best in the league, and made 58 tackles. Ferraro also added a forced fumble and fumble recovery, three interceptions, and nine pass deflections, and notched her first ISFL touchdown with a Week 14 pick-six against the Orange County Otters. The Silverbacks, on the other hand, suffered a rough setback in their growth and went 5-11 on the year. The defense once again allowed the second-most points in the league with 522 and scooped up the second pick in the S37 ISFL Draft in the process. With one year remaining on her rookie contract, Ferraro still believed that New York was trending upwards as a team. Both Ferraro and the Silverbacks were poised for a breakout year.

2052-53 season

Ferraro's last year on her rookie contract, and the Silverbacks as a team, were very up-and-down in Season 37. However, her offseason regimen, focused on improving her center fielder skills as well as her tackling, helped her put up likely the best stat line of her young career. She was credited with allowing 80 catches on 115 targets, a marked decline from her first two seasons and fourth-worst in the league with a 69.57% catch rate. On the positive side, she reached 60 tackles and added three sacks, two forced fumbles, two interceptions, and eleven pass deflections, three of which were new career highs. New York came within one game of a playoff spot with three weeks left to play before they lost the final three games of the season, all within one score, to knock them down to a 6-10 record and the third pick in the next draft. There were bright signs ahead that the Silverbacks were on an upwards trajectory; six of their losses had been one-score affairs, teams like the Honolulu Hahalua looked poised for a rebuild, and the roster was entering its prime. Before the end of the season, Regina signed a ten year, $40 million extension to remain with the Silverbacks for the rest of her career.

2053-54 season

On the heels of a busy offseason, in which the Silverbacks spent big and traded for a number of key pieces, the team was widely conjectured as a serious playoff contender. Regina Ferraro continued her upwards statistical trajectory in her fourth season. She allowed 76 catches on 125 targets, a career best 60.80% completion rate, to go with 59 tackles. Although her secondary stats declined - she notched only one sack and had no forced fumbles or recoveries – she continued to set new career standards through the air with four interceptions and fourteen pass deflections. Despite a rough mid-season stretch in which the team dropped five of six games, New York still finished the year 9-7 and won the third seed in the ASFC based on a tiebreaker with the Otters, sending Ferraro to the playoffs for the first time in her ISFL career. On the road against the San Jose Sabercats in the divisional round, the Silverbacks throttled the home team 31-9 and comfortably won. Next up were the league-leading Arizona Outlaws, against whom New York had lost both regular season games by a single score. It was a tight game once again, and the Silverbacks even led 20-14 at halftime, but they could not stop the Outlaws from running out the clock in the fourth and lost 31-28. Ferraro played valiantly in the two-game playoff run, racking up fourteen tackles, a sack, a forced fumble, an interception, and a pass deflection.

ISFL career statistics

Career statistics			Defense
Season	Team	Games	Tck	TFL	FF/FR	Sck	Int	PD	Sfty	TD	Targets	CtA	Catch%
2050 (S35)	Silverbacks	16	65	0	0/0	2	1	6	0	0	111	73	65.77%
2051 (S36)	Silverbacks	16	58	0	1/1	0	3	9	0	1	99	61	61.62%
2052 (S37)	Silverbacks	16	60	0	2/0	3	2	11	0	0	115	80	69.57%
2053 (S38)	Silverbacks	16	59	0	0/0	1	4	14	0	0	125	76	60.80%
Overall	Silverbacks	64	242	0	3/1	6	10	40	0	1	450	290	64.44%

ISFL playoff statistics

Career statistics			Defense
Season	Team	Games	Tck	TFL	FF/FR	Sck	Int	PD	Sfty	TD	Blk P/XP/FG
2053 (S38)	Silverbacks	2	14	0	1/0	1	1	1	0	0	0/0/0
Overall	Silverbacks	2	14	0	1/0	1	1	1	0	0	0/0/0

Awards

Team

• Ultimini Champion (1): 2049 (S34) (Ultimini Bowl XXXII)