The Jaguars have made a number of updates to their front office staff this week, per Neil Stratton of SucceedinFootball.com. These updates included five promotions, a move to different role, and one new hire.
John Stevenson, Ryan Stamper, Tyler Walker, Mickeel Stewart, and Holden McAbee are the recipients of the promotions. Stevenson has spent the past three years as a national scout for the Jaguars after six years in San Francisco. He’ll now serve as assistant director of college scouting. Stamper will take Stevenson’s old role of national scout after previously serving as director of player assessment. This will be his fourth season with Jacksonville after joining from Ohio State.
Walker, Stewart, and McAbee have all been promoted to college scouts. Walker has spent the last three years as a scouting assistant after time at Oregon. Similarly, Stewart was a scouting assistant, joining the team in 2022 after a little over a year at West Virginia. McAbee also moves up from a scouting assistant role he’s held for two years. He previously served as director of player personnel at Gardner-Webb University.
After 17 years with the Jaguars working in college scouting, Jason DesJarlais will become a pro scout. He joined the team in 2006 as a scouting intern before moving into a role as the BLESTO scout for the southeast and midwest areas. Prior to his time in Duval, DesJarlais was a special teams coordinator and defensive assistant at Yale.
The new hire in the group is Max Rosenthal. After a playing career as a fullback and tight end at Michigan State and Illinois, Rosenthal worked as an offensive and special teams quality control coach with the Illini, helping out specifically with the tight ends group. Now he makes his way to Jacksonville for a scouting assistant position, filling one of the roles vacated by Walker, Stewart, and McAbee.
The front office is in good hands as long as Baalke is in charge
The front office change they need to make is replacing Baalke.
My buddy is a huge Jags fan dating back to the expansion. He can’t stand Baalke and I can’t blame him, he is truly awful.
Did they all get fired after TL that ridiculous contract?
Love the Jaguars and have since the expansion. Giving 55 million to TL is ludicrous. GM will be gone next year after they go 5-12 with Moneybags Lawrence at the helm.
I’d say any contract in the hundreds of millions is ownership’s call. Perhaps the contact with the agent, roster/workout bonuses and fine print of the contract are handled by the GM, but imagining Khan waking up blindsided by this transaction is hilarious to me.
Kudos to Trevor developing into an NFL QB and getting paid while having his development stunted by being coached by Urban Meyer.
When I read the headline, I just assumed that they had fired half of the front office in order to be able to afford the Lawrence contract.