Ben Kerr - Director of Player Personnel - Staff Directory

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Ben Kerr

Title:
Director of Player Personnel
Email:
Phone:
(304) 293-4194

Ben Kerr is in his first year as director of player personnel for the Mountaineer football staff.

At WVU, Kerr will assist in the areas of recruiting and scouting. He will supervise the director of recruiting, director of on-campus recruiting and the assistant directors for scouting. He will organize and lead personnel meetings, meet with individual personnel units to further the communication from the head coach, manage the transfer portal, communicating details of priority prospects to the head coach and staff.

Kerr will oversee weekly in-season creation of advance scouting reports, research and analyze recruiting data to study player acquisition processes and evaluate players on the WVU roster and other Big 12 rosters to analyze and identify strengths and weaknesses. He will review all recruit prospect files and will oversee the student assistant development program.

Kerr joins the WVU football staff after serving for the past seven years in various administrative roles on the Penn State Football staff, first as the director of football administration from August 2019 – July 2025, then as the director of football operations from July 2025 until becoming the interim chief of staff in November.

At PSU, he managed the day-to-day operations of the football program and administrative staff, oversaw the football budget, handled contracts pertaining to the football program, coordinated all bowl game operations and was the liaison to various campus departments, including athletic and university administrations, human resources, ticket office, head coach’s agent and the Big Ten Conference.

When working as the operations and administration lead for the football program, he was the facilities coordinator for the Lasch Football Center, assisted the chief of staff with future facility construction phases, assisted the head football coach with program and facility master planning, served as primary oversight and administration of practice planning and implementation, oversaw the video department and organized all aspects of regular and postseason team travel.

He spent two years on the football staff at Arizona, serving as the assistant director of football and recruiting operations in 2017 and director of football operations in 2018. He also was the assistant director of operations on William & Mary’s football staff in 2016 and an intern at Penn State in 2015 and 2016.

Kerr graduated with his bachelor’s degree in kinesiology from Penn State in 2012 and earned his master’s degree in sport management from Millersville in 2015.