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Titans Make Front Office Changes

Earlier this month, the Titans announced several changes to their front office staff. The team’s senior writer/editor Jim Wyatt detailed a number of promotions and new hires that pertain to the areas of staff that we cover.

To start, we already reported on Tennessee’s hiring of former Pitt director of college scouting Alex Kline, but at that time, we were unaware of what role on staff he would end up playing. Wyatt tells us that Kline will serve the Titans as a scouting assistant in 2025. He’ll be joined in the position with fellow new hire Geo Leins. Leins also originally came out of college with recruiting roles at Campbell, UCLA, Wake Forest, and NC State. He debuted in the NFL in 2023 as a scouting assistant with the Dolphins but heads now to Nashville.

The only other new hire in the scouting department is Jack Turner. After operations internships with Wake Forest and the Chiefs, Turner found an operations job at Davidson College. He left for a recruiting internship, again with the Demon Deacons, before getting a recruiting analyst job at Michigan. He’ll work his first full-time job in the NFL as an NFS scout for the Titans.

The scouting department also saw five promotions with Tennessee elevating Jon Salge to director of player personnel, Kevin Turks to director of pro personnel, Mike Boni to assistant director of college scouting, Kalan Reed to college scout, and Keenan Agnew to pro scout.

Salge is entering his 20th season with the Titans. Starting with the team as a scouting assistant, he’s worked his way up through the ranks as a college scout before eventually being named director of college scouting, a role he’s held for the past eight seasons. Turks joined the team in 2015 as a pro scout following time in Chicago as a scout and director of pro personnel. He was promoted after three years to assistant director of pro personnel in Tennessee and was invited to participate in the league’s Front Office & General Manager Accelerator program in 2023.

Boni, like Salge, also has 19 years of NFL experience but only has eight with the Titans. After coaching attempts at the high school and Division III college levels, Boni turned to scouting in 2006 spending a year as pro personnel administrator and a year as college scouting administrator with the Bills. In 2008, Boni departed for Arizona, working as an NFS scout to start for two years before seven as an east area scout. He started with the Titans in 2018 as a college scout before moving up to national scout in 2019, a role he held for five years before being named senior national scout last year.

Reed is a former cornerback whom the Titans actually made Mr. Irrelevant in 2016. A career-ending neck injury brought his playing career to a close, but in 2023, he joined the team that drafted him as a personnel scout after an NFL Legends fellowship. Agnew joined the team last year as a scouting assistant following the conclusion of his playing career at Southern Illinois. He’s the son of Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew and the brother of Jets pro scout Ray Agnew III.

Lastly, the analytics department also saw two promotions as Rob Riederer was named director of game management & strategic initiatives and Erin Psajdl Davis was named football research & development coordinator.

After his collegiate playing career, Riederer started with the Titans as a scouting assistant, working his way up to pro scouting coordinator at one point. Last year saw a shift in focus as Riederer was named assistant director of football strategy. His newfound career in analytics has paid off with this promotion. Psajdl Davis joined the team last year as a data analyst. She started in the NFL in the same role with the Texans for two years before spending the 2023 season as a data scientist with the Chiefs. Unlike her first two position changes, this move up will keep Psajdl Davis with the same team.

AFC Staff Rumors: Canada, Steelers, Shaw, Broncos, Chargers, Jaguars, Titans

The Steelers opted for an outside OC hire, adding Arthur Smith, but both halves of their interim setup from last season — Eddie Faulkner and Mike Sullivan — remain with the team. Sullivan drew OC interest elsewhere, after calling the plays for a Mason Rudolph-led offense that ended up in the playoffs, but he is in place as a Steelers senior offensive assistant. Faulkner remains the team’s RBs coach. Smith should be considered likely to include the duo in his game plans, per The Athletic’s Mark Kaboly, who adds ousted OC Matt Canada was not known for a collaborative approach. Canada did not receive input from staffers especially well, Kaboly notes, before becoming the historically rare Steelers assistant fired in-season.

Here is the latest from AFC coaching staffs and front offices:

  • One of the Broncos‘ HC candidates in 2023, David Shaw is now in place to work remotely as a staffer under Sean Payton and George Paton. Shaw has coached with the former (on Ray Rhodes‘ 1997 Eagles staff) and began communicating with the GM more often since the January 2023 interview. Months after the longtime Stanford HC’s interview, SI.com’s Albert Breer notes he expressed an interest to Paton regarding work in NFL personnel. During the time between his Broncos connections, Shaw interviewed for the Chargers and Titans’ HC jobs. The Paton conversations, with likely help from the Stanford ties owners Greg Penner and Condoleezza Rice have, led to the longtime Stanford coach landing with the AFC West franchise.
  • Elsewhere on the Broncos’ staff, InsidetheLeague.com’s Neil Stratton notes Ty Murphy has moved from scouting intern to pro scout. Murphy initially caught on with the team in July 2023.
  • Four years ago, the Chargers were new on the analytics front. They hired Aditya Krishnan to lead that department in February 2020. Early in Jim Harbaugh‘s tenure, the Bolts are moving in a different direction. Krishnan, who held the title of football research and analytics director, is no longer with the team, according to ESPN.com’s Seth Walder. While new regimes shake up staffs, it will be interesting to see how Harbaugh goes about assembling an analytics department in Los Angeles.
  • The Jaguars are also losing an experienced staffer. Brian Squeglia, who worked as an area scout for the past six years and spent eight seasons in Jacksonville, is leaving the team, per Stratton. Squeglia is set to remain in the industry but is not planning to work for another team presently.
  • The Titans added two staffers recently, with Walder indicating they hired Erin Psajdl Davis and Alex Rogers as analysts. Psajdl Davis comes over from the Chiefs, having worked on the business side in Kansas City. She previously held a football-related role in Houston. Rogers interned for the Saints previously.