Because the offseason continues, the Raiders are certainly one of several teams making updates to their front office. Per an announcement released by Las Vegas earlier this week, Ben Chester was promoted from assistant director to director, pro scouting, Kunal Singh was promoted from senior manager to director, football strategy, Patrick Parrilli was elevated from player personnel assistant to pro/college scout, and Jonah Lubin was promoted from football data science assistant to football data scientist.
Chester has been with the Raiders for 12 years, joining the team in 2014 as a professional scout after working in operations at UW-Oshkosh and training at UW-Stevens Point. He spent 10 seasons as a professional scout before being named to his most up-to-date role. Singh found his solution to the NFL after first working with the Milwaukee Brewers. He began within the league working two seasons as a football data scientist with the Broncos and was hired to his senior manager of football strategy role last yr.
Parrilli joined the team two years ago in a move that took him from the coaching world to personnel. After commencing with an undergraduate role at Ave Maria University, Parrilli spent 4 years at Eastern Kentucky working different roles like running backs coach and quarterbacks coach before landing at Wake Forest. He found his solution to Vegas after 4 years as an offensive analyst for the Demon Deacons. Lubin joined the team last yr after a business internship with the Texans. He was a semi-finalist in last yr’s Big Data Bowl.
Listed here are a number of other front office updates from across the NFL:
- The Bills joined in on the promotions, elevating football research assistant Cole Jacobson to football analyst, based on ESPN’s Seth Walder. Jacobson arrived in Buffalo last offseason after years of freelance, seasonal, and part-time work with NFL Media, MLB Media, FOX Sports, Stats Perform, and Championship Analytics. He and his team were finalist in last yr’s Big Data Bowl.
- Formerly a football analyst for the Bears, Fabian Martinez has been promoted to football data scientist, per Neil Stratton of SucceedinFootball.com. Martinez joined the team last yr directly after earning his degree in Information and Data Science at Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
- Finally, in Los Angeles, the Rams now not employ scouting analyst Grant Hizer, based on Walder. Hizer arrived in LA last yr after a season working as a research analyst at NFL Next Gen Stats.