New Minnesota Vikings general manager Nolan Teasley has been on the job for a few weeks. He’s spent that time catching up on the roster and crafting his front office. Regarding the latter, the Vikings announced some changes.
Hires:
Andrew Healy - Assistant General Manager
Trent Kirchner - Assistant General Manager
Tyer Hamblin - Director of Football Strategy
Ryan Pace - Football Adviser
Azzaam Kapadia - Assistant Director of Pro Scouting
At his introductory press conference, Nolan Teasley said that he was “guided by evaluation and anchored by data.” In Andrew Healy and Trent Kirchner, he has his data and evaluation bookends. With a Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Yale and a Ph.D in economics from MIT, Healy is undoubtedly committed to data. Kirchner has been scouting and evaluating football players for 26 years. Teasley brought Healy over from the Cleveland Browns and he brought Kirchner with him from the Seattle Seahawks. Azzaam Kapadia also comes from the Seahawks and is a rising scouting, film-watching machine. He was an undergrad at Virginia only three years ago. Now, he has a prominent talent evaluation role in the Vikings front office. Tyler Hamblin is returning to the NFL after spending nearly two years as Senior Product Success Manager at Teamworks. Prior to that intriguing job he worked for nearly eight seasons with the Browns. My guess is that he’s as much a Healy hire as a Teasley hire. Ryan Pace brings strong scouting experience and a failed GM run with the Chicago Bears. Despite the questionable decisions with the Bears, he did a lot of good things to get the job. He’ll be a strong resource in the Vikings front office.
In addition to the five hires, the Vikings announced five promotions.
Dabness Atkins - Scouting Assistant
Chris French - Director of Football Quantitative Methods
Claire Morrison - Football Quantitative Methods
Jack Murphy - College Area Scout
Brian Schnorr - College Scout/BLESTO
The adjustments of the past few weeks resulted in the following front office.
Minnesota Vikings New Front Office
General Manager: Nolan Teasley
Assistant General Manager: Andrew Healy
Assistant General Manager: Trent Kirchner
Director of Football Strategy: Tyler Hamblin
Football Adviser: Ryan Pace
Director of Player Personnel: Ryan Monnens
Assistant Director of Player Personnel: Chisom Opara
Director of Pro Personnel: Sam DeLuca
Assistant Director of Pro Personnel: Azzaam Kapadia
Director of College Scouting: Mike Sholiton
National Scout: Sean Gustus
National Scout: David Williams
College Area Scout: Jake Essler
College Area Scout: Blaine Gramer
College Area Scout: Matt Kelly
College Area Scout: Steve Sabo
College Area Scout: Jack Murphy
College Area Scout: Michelle Mankoff
Pro Scout: Alex Dale
Scouting Coordinator: Taylor Brooks
Senior Football Operations Manager: Kaitlin Zarecki
Senior Manager of Football Administration: Emily Badis
Senior Manager of Family Engagement: Quinn Gjersvig
Director of Football Quantitative Methods: Chris French
Football Quantitative Methods Analyst: Cole Bransford
Senior Director of Football Information Systems: Luke Burson
Senior Database Administrator: Mike Desplenter
Football Information Systems Developer: Anthony Caron
Football Information Systems Developer: Derek McCormick
Scouting Assistant: Dabness Atkins
College Scout/BLESTO: Brian Schnorr
SQL Database Associate: Roman Hauch
Football Quantitative Methods Associate: Claire Morrison
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