San Jose Sabercats

San Jose Sabercats
San Jose Sabercats
Current season
	Established 2016; First season: 2016; Play in and headquartered in HP Pavilion; San Jose, California;
	Logo
League/conference affiliations
	NSFL (2016–present) ASFC (2016 (S1)–present);
	Current uniform
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Team colors	Green, Gold, White
Personnel
General manager	ckroyal92; Dawegg
Team history
	San Jose Sabercats (2016–present);
Championships
	League championships (0);
	Conference championships (0)
	Division championships (0)
Playoff appearances (1)
	NSFL: 2021 (S6);
Home fields
	HP Pavilion (2016–present);

History of the San Jose Sabercats

The 2016 season

The 2017 season saw a lot of changes going on in San Jose. Besides the fact that they had bolstered their Offensive Line with Vincent Sharpei, Jordan Yates, and Braden Sharp, the team as a whole had a lot of hopes and promises. They hired a new GM, by the name of Lord Nibbler and a lot of young players came in through the draft, and seemed like they would be a great fit. The team started off the season winning 3 of their first 4 games, but all good things came to an end by losing 8 in a row, and 8 of their last 10 games. San Jose’s dreams were cut short through that, finishing with the same record as they did in season 1, at 4-10.

2018 saw a lot of interesting things happen. Lord Nibbler stepped down, and Vincent Sharpei’s Agent stepped up and became Co-GM of the San Jose Sabercats. Through the first two seasons, San Jose put a lot of a blame on their kicker, and for good reason. Losing a lot of close ones because their kicker couldn’t hit anything. They decided to draft a kicker in the first round. That was a huge surprise to many around the league, but Iyah Blewitt was an amazing addition. The team slowly, but surely started to turn it around, finishing the season at 5-8-1.

The 2019 season took the league by storm. It saw Vincent Sharpei moving to Linebacker and Jordan Yates moving to Running back. Game plans changed as well, and the Defense was tearing up the league. The Defense lead the league with 28 interceptions and 7 defensive touchdowns. They also had 8 forced fumbles and 7 fumble recoveries, and because of this, lead the team to a beautiful 9-5 record. Sadly, they were beaten in the playoffs, by the Otters, who even though they had the same record, had better points for differential and ended up going to the playoffs with the Arizona Outlaws.

In 2020 the Sabercats kept on pace, winning the first game against the Otters at home. The Defense yet again was one of the top in the league, and their rushing game was a thing of beauty as well. Losing Jordan Yates to free agency to the Otters, the Sabercats saw one of their own, Darren Smallwood, switch over and fill in the role, and fill in the role he did. He helped lead the Sabercats to be the top rushing team in the conference and third in the league. Another winning season saw the Sabercats at 8-6, but just like the year before, ended up having the same record as the Arizona Outlaws, who went into the playoffs against the Otters due to point differential.

2021 was one of the most special years for the Sabercats. From the beginning, the team had kept pushing themselves and each other to get better and this was that season. They started off 3-1, In the first four games and then they rattled out a 6 game winning streak. The team finished with a 11-3 record, and made their first ever playoff game. They were matched up against the Orange County Otters and it was a game of the ages. It went down to the wire, and the Otters were able to hit a field goal with 34 seconds left to win the game. The Sabercats fought hard all year long, to fall short so suddenly. It was at this point the GMs decided to start discussing what was going to happen to the future of the SaberCats.

2022 was the year that the Sabercats decided to, in essence, blow it all up on defense. Dan Miller, the focal point and steal of a draft so late in the first round, was traded to the Colorado Yeti at the trade deadline. Just hours later, Vincent Sharpei was traded to the New Orleans Second Line, and everything that the team had built was coming down. The defense was getting older, and just couldn’t really keep the new blood in on the schemes they were running. After all this happened, San Jose was still able to squeak out a 5-9 Record, and yet again miss out on the playoffs by point differential to the Arizona Outlaws.

2023 saw

The 2024 season

The 2025 season

2026 meant

Logos and uniforms

Season-by-season records

Players of note

Current roster

San Jose Sabercats roster

Quarterbacks

11 Josh Patterson

Running backs

Wide receivers

Tight ends

86 Kenny Szymborski

Offensive linemen

Defensive linemen

Linebackers

Defensive backs

Special teams

19 Booter McGavin K/P

Reserve lists

DSFL Send-downs

Rookies in italics

Roster updated January 25th, 2024
23 Active, 6 Send Downs

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