Eagles officially announce front office changes

Including the return of Joe Douglas.

The Philadelphia Eagles officially announced multiple front office changes on Monday afternoon.

Here’s an overview with thoughts to follow.

NEW HIRES

SCOUTING

Joe Douglas

Title: Senior Personnel Director/Advisor to the General Manager

Preston Tiffany

Title: NFS Scout

FOOTBALL OPERATIONS

Smit Bajaj

Title: Quantitative Analyst

Grant Reieter

Title: Football Transactions Coordinator

Molly Rottinghaus

Title: Football Operations Coordinator

Leif Thorson

Title: Software Developer

TITLE CHANGES

SCOUTING

Ryan Myers

OLD title: Assistant Director of College Scouting

NEW title: Director of College Scouting

Matt Holland

OLD title: Midwest Area Scout

NEW title: Assistant Director of College Scouting

Jarrod Kilburn

OLD title: College/Pro Scout

NEW title: Assistant Director of Pro Scouting

Terrence Braxton

OLD title: Player Personnel Coordinator

NEW title: Pro Scout

Rod Streater

OLD title: NFS Scout

NEW title: West Coast Area Scout

Duke Tobin

OLD title: Scouting Assistant

NEW title: Midlands Area Scout

FOOTBALL OPERATIONS

James Gilman

OLD title: Director of Football Analytics

NEW title: Senior Director of Football Research and Strategy

Jon Liu

OLD title: Assistant Director of Football Analytics

NEW title: Director of Football Analytics

Zachary Steever

OLD title: Senior Quantitative Analyst

NEW title: Assistant Director of Football Research and Strategy

THOUGHTS

• News of Joe Douglas returning to Philly was first reported back in May. Douglas failed to succeed as the New York Jets’ general manager but his contributions to the Eagles’ Super Bowl LII success previously helped him get that job. Douglas now shares the same exact “Senior Personnel Director/Advisor to the General Manager” title as former Jacksonville Jaguars GM Dave Caldwell and former Denver Broncos vice president of player personnel Matt Russell on the Eagles.
• The Preston Tiffany hire was first reported back in June. At the time, we noted how Tiffany was considered “one of the rising stars in the college personnel world” for his work at LSU and Ole Miss.
• The Eagles lost multiple key front office members this offseason: senior director of college scouting Anthony Patch, senior director of scouting Brandon Hunt, and national scout Jordon Dizon. Ryan Myers is seemingly taking over for Patch but there aren’t apparent direct replacements for Hunt and Dizon. Those responsibilities could be shared by the combination of the new hires and the internal promotions.
• Smit Bajaj was part of the team that won the 2025 Big Data Bowl.
• Grant Reieter, a Harvard Law graduate, originally interned for the Eagles in 2022 before then spending some time with the Cleveland Browns.
• Molly Rottinghaus arrives in Philly after serving as assistant to the head coach (Luke Fickell) at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2023.
• Leif Thorson is a University of Michigan graduate who is new to working in football.