This weekend, the Eagles announced several title changes and new hires in their personnel and operations departments. Philadelphia lost six staffers this offseason.
Some of the Eagles’ corresponding moves we haven’t yet covered are as follows. Former-senior director of football transactions Bryce Johnston was promoted to vice president of football transactions and strategic planning. Former-assistant of analytics James Gilman was promoted to director of football analytics. Former-senior pro scout Jeff Scott was promoted to director of football operations. Former-football analytics coordinator Jon Liu was promoted to assistant director of football analytics. Former assistant strength and conditioning coach Patrick McDowell moved departments to become the player development assistant/scout. Pro scout Ameena Soliman was promoted to director of personnel operations/pro scout. Former-college scout (Northeast area) Matt Holland was promoted to senior college/pro scout.
The following are new hires announced by the Eagles that we haven’t covered. In operations, Zach Drapkin was hired as a quantitative analyst. In scouting, Jarrod Kilburn was hired as a college/pro scout.
Here are a few other staff notes from around the NFL, starting with the freshly-named Commanders:
- According to Nicki Jhabvala of The Washington Post, legendary tight end and current-senior pro scout Don Warren will retire this week. Warren won three Super Bowls during his 14 seasons as a player in Washington. 13 years after his retirement from playing, Warren returned to Washington as a scout. After five years in that role, Warren joined the Panthers as a scout, where he stayed for ten years. Warren returned to Washington for the final two years of his career in 2020.
- The Bears have hired the Chiefs’ senior data scientist, Krithi Chandrakasan, away from Kansas City to assume the role of director of football analytics in Chicago. To fill Chandrakasan’s now-vacant role, the Chiefs hired Marc Richards in the role of football research analyst, all according to ESPN’s Seth Walder. Walder adds that Richards was a part of the winning team in the 2021 Big Data Bowl. The Big Data Bowl is an annual analytics competition for college students and professionals in the league. The contest challenges participants to spur innovations in the ever-evolving world of NFL advanced analytics.
This is the first I’ve heard of the BIG DATA BOWL. Why no Roman numerals? Shouldn’t it be nationally televised like the college draft and combine in Indianapolis? It’s rather uncharacteristic for Goodell to pass up a money grab opportunity.
Good point on a Goodell money grab.
Maybe instead of Roman Numerals they will just change Big. Next year will be the Bigger Data Bowl, the following year will be the Biggerer Data Bowl etc.
I would hardly call Donnie Warren a legendary tight end – as only a diehard Redskins fan would see him that way. Players like him fill an important role, but it is hard to measure their personal impact on the team’s overall success.
Is it just me or are NFL teams having a “field day” creating bogus sounding job titles and then slapping enhanced titles onto them as a way of either a mechanism to financially reward people or to make it more difficult for competing teams to poach their personnel?
EXAMPLES:
Football Transactions Staff
Director of Football Transactions
Senior Director of Football Transactions
Vice President of Football Transactions
Strategic Planning Staff
Director of Strategic Planning
Vice President of Strategic Planning
Assistant of Analytics
Football Analytics Coordinator
Football Research Analyst
Quantitative Analyst
Senior Data Scientist
Assistant Director of Football Analytics
Director of Football Analytics
Vice President of Football Analytics
Scout
Pro Scout
College Pro Scout
Senior Pro Scout
College Scout
Senior College Scout
Assistant Strength and Conditioning Coach
Strength and Conditioning Coach
Senior Strength and Conditioning Coach
Director of Strength and Conditioning
Vice President of Strength and Conditioning
Football Operations Staff
Assistant Director of Football Operations
Director of Football Operations
Senior Director of Football Operations
Vice President of Football Operations
Player Development Assistant
Assistant Director of Player Development
Director of Player Development
Senior Director of Player Development
Vice President of Player Development
Teams have more staff than players.
What EXACTLY do all of them REALLY DO?
They should have a staff limit just like a roster limit. And instead of Injured Reserve, they can put staff members on Personal Reason reserve.
Teams have more staff than players.
What EXACTLY do all of them REALLY DO?
Apparently they spend most of their time reading e-mails from ten years ago to be sure they didn’t say anything that might upset Roger Goodell.