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Matt Feinstein (Chief Nerd for the Bears) praised for his market acumen & ability to develop relationships in the latest ep of 1920 Football Drive Matt (with a degree from Michigan in electrical engineering), shows the premium value of being a nerd w both hard AND soft skills

The Eagles inked Arizona St. grad Cameron Johnsen to a summer internship with their scouting dept Johnsen studied sports law & business (including research on NFL contract economics), was a student scout, collected data for PFF, & was a participant in the 2026 NFL Big Data Bowl

Jake Temme (Chief Nerd for the Jaguars) was featured in ep 1 of The Hunt He talks about: 👉rebuilding an internal analytics hub similar to the JAARS platform he built for the Rams 👉how to synthesize complex quantitative info into digestible stories for normie coaches+scouts

This is exactly the type of question our future terminal dashboards will answer (and much, much more). Some previews coming soon. But in short, for 2026 the most noteworthy wrinkle is the add of Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, who just 18mo ago was an analytics darling & toast of the town. He may not be a good GM, but he's undoubtedly very smart, and could potentially be a boost to the front office's collective intelligence & decision making.

@nerdquality_ have the 49ers been doing anything recently interesting, significant, or noteworthy (good or bad) with their front office, scouting or R&D departments this year, or in recent years?

John Park's hiring spree picks up steam: the Dallas Cowboys signed SMU grad Nicholas Fullerton to join the analytics dept. as a Strategic Football Fellow 🏈 Fullerton studied Data Science, was a 2024 Big Data Bowl participant, & was most recently a researcher at Next Gen Stats

49ers Football R&D Analyst Meredith Manley is no longer with the team after opting to leave at the conclusion of her contract, source confirms. Manley had been with the 49ers since 2022 and worked for the Arizona Cardinals before that. @nerdquality_ first noted the move.

@mofopod Nerd Drip💧

@nerdquality_ and the fit is fantastic

The LA Chargers added UChicago grad Jake Cardonick to their growing analytics dept ⚡️ Jake studied Data Science & Economics at UC, previously interned with the Dolphins (2025) & 49ers (2024), frequently posted beautiful NFL data viz on X, & built footballanalyticsnerd(dot)com.

Radar charts are for eye candy 🍬

@24jospr For real, or are you ai? 😂

@nerdquality_ Great signing for the Cowboys— Vince was a dynamic mind with Princeton Football and will undoubtedly be a day 1 contributor

The Dallas Cowboys inked Princeton grad Vincent Etherton to their Strategic Football Operations dept. led by John Park 🏈 Vincent was a data scientist for the Princeton football team & graduated May 2026 with a BSE in Computer Science & minors in Statistics & Machine Learning

@JakeCar120 ⚡️

I am incredibly excited to announce that I will be joining the Los Angeles Chargers as a Football Analysis Fellow! To everyone who has supported my work and my website over the past year, this would not have happened without you and the support has meant everything. Bolt Up!

The NY Giants added Liam Benderly as a Football Data & Innovation Intern for the 2026 season 🏈 Liam graduated with a degree in Cognitive Science from UGA, where he is also pursuing a Master's in AI. His team of SEC quants earned an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Big Data Bowl.

Sarah Bailey a casualty of nepotism. Left unsaid in Seth's tweet, Bryce Wasserman is widely known within the organization as the son-in-law of Titans controlling owner Amy Adams Strunk.

49ers analytics staffer Meredith Manley has left the team. She was an Analyst in the Football Research & Development dept. since 2022.

@hawkblogger No? There are more than enough investors to finance this deal. It's a tax problem.

The headline might as well read: "There aren't many people on the planet who have a net worth north of $12B and also like sports and the NFL and live close to Seattle" It's a math problem

The Atlanta Falcons signed recent Georgia Tech grad Kaitlyn Williams to be a Football Data & Machine Learning Engineer 🏈 Kaitlyn played soccer for Brown University, graduated with a BS in Math & Computer Science, & completed her MS in Analytics from GT in 2025 #DirtyBirds

Mr. Steal Your Pick

Can TikTok ➡️ NFL front office pipeline become a thing? The Carolina Panthers added Leah Cammarano to their 2026 class of football analytics interns Leah studies stats at Pitt & has built a visible public profile through data-driven sports analysis on TikTok (leah.cammarano)

The New York Jets beef up their analytics dept. for 2026, signing Yale grad Dean Shaffer to a summer internship 🏈 Dean was captain of the Yale football team & graduated with a BA in Statistics & Data Science. He recently completed a MS in Business Analytics from UMass Isenberg