Matt Lafleur doesn't blame his "analytic people" 💪 (he does't seem to know who they are 💀)

Donovan Moore, one of the longest tenured data scientists in the Steelers front office, has resigned "I believe God has been making it clear that obedience in this season means stepping away and trusting Him with what comes next" ✝️ A week from kickoff, the Steelers now have one of the thinnest analytics brain trusts in the league

Been waiting for someone to ask this

The Commanders signed Demitrius Washington, former Chief Nerd of the Vikings analytics dept Demitrius has often been considered a rising star in analytics circles & was voted 'most likely to be a future GM' in Seth Walder's 2024 NFL coach/exec survey, but was a casualty of the Vikings front office firing spree earlier this year

The Dolphins signed ex-Bank of America consultant Isaiah Hawbaker to their analytics dept. Isaiah studied business analytics at Wake Forest University School of Business & the University of Tennessee. He was also an asst. in operations & scouting for both WF & UT 🏈 programs

Reproduced RP's research; the egregious chart crimes weren't even necessary to tell the story 😮‍💨 Major neRd quality aura loss 🔻

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Patrick Ward (Chief Nerd for the Seahawks) was featured in "The Equation", s3e2 of Before the Noise Patrick talks about: 👉who does what on his 7-person analytics team 👉research strategy for the draft 👉data pipelines & application infrastructure

The 49ers analytics dept. signed Emma Johnson to a football research & development internship Emma recently graduated with a Master's in mathematics from the University of Minnesota Duluth. She was a TA for calculus & psychological statistics, as well as a pre-school teacher

The Lions analytics dept re-signed summer intern Tyler Taylor for the 2026 season 🏈 Tyler studied mathematics & data science at UCLA, was a sports science intern for Stanford football, & built machine learning models to predict game performance + return-to-play decisions ⚕️

The Ravens added UNC Charlotte grad Omarion Bitting to their deep bench of football analytics talent 🏈 Omarion is a Master's student in UNCC's data science program, was an analytics grad asst. w the men's & women's 🏀 teams, & has built ML models to predict NBA spreads/totals

The Packers 🧀 continue to invest in their growing analytics dept, signing University at Buffalo grad Ty Carlisle to an internship for the 2026 season Ty studied industrial engineering, spent 2 yrs as a coaching analyst for the 🏈 team, & founded UB's sports analytics club

The Bears signed St. Lawrence University grad Josh Larson to a seasonal football analyst role 🏈 Josh studied mathematics, played TE for the football team, & joined the coaching staff as a defensive analyst post-graduation, where he helped incorporate AI into scouting workflows

Ellis is awesome, and I did say the last part. For the transaction log, though: Ellis interned with us last summer and school year, then graduated and got this role from GB. Aside: Davidson remains one of the most underrated places in the country to get a STEM degree.

The Packers 🧀 acquired football analytics engineer Ellis Sriram from the Panthers Ellis studied computer science at Davidson, was a quant researcher w the Orioles, & spent the 2025 season as an analytics intern w the Panthers Eric Eager : "the Packers are lucky to have him"

The Commanders inked Vanderbilt grad student Nathan Grey to a summer internship with their Research & Development dept. 🏈 Nathan is pursuing a Master's in data science, leads sports science initiatives for Vandy Athletics, & studied computer science at West Virginia University

Iwao Fusillo (the Jets' new Chief Nerd of AI) reveals the team is in fact *not* a Microsoft Copilot maxi 🔥 He talks about using Claude Code to customize legacy dashboard UIs based on coach/scout style preferences & to help communicate research & data analytics more effectively

John Park (Chief Nerd for the Cowboys) was hired in 2023 to rebuild the analytics dept... Sarah Mallepalle was his "#⃣1 draft pick" From casual twitter chartist ➡️ the FO of the Ravens & Cowboys - Sarah's NeRd Quality resume is 🔥 How does she help the Cowboys win games?👇

💡How do machine learning models actually work? Some beautiful animations here from the nerds at @NextGenStats, breaking it down using their xRY model (💡which is actually derived from "The Zoo" team's winning paper in the 2020 NFL Big Data Bowl) as an example 🏈

New #Skol GM Nolan Teasley outlined his 3-pillar roster management & player acquisition philosophy: 1⃣guided by evaluation (scouting department's assessments) 2⃣anchored by data (analytics department's research) 3⃣coach's vision (strategic scheme fit)