The Jacksonville Jaguars will have a high-ranking role to fill in their football strategy department as Eugene Shen will be leaving the team, according to ESPN’s Seth Walder.
Jaguars VP of Football Analytics Eugene Shen is leaving the team for a job outside of sports, per sources.
This is the second offseason in a row the Jaguars have lost a VP-level analytics staffer.
— Seth Walder (@SethWalder) June 30, 2022
With Shen set to leave, it will mark the second year in a row that a key member of the analytics department has left the team. Just over a year ago in late May, it was reported that senior vice president of football operations and strategy, Karim Kassam, was no longer with the team. According to ESPN’s Mike DiRocco, Jags co-owner Tony Khan said that both the organization and Kassam decided that it was best for both sides to move on. At the time of his departure, he had only been with the team for about three months.
Among other shake ups to the team’s analytics department was the addition of Ryan Paganetti earlier this year. Doug Pederson added Paganetti as the team’s Director of Coaching Analytics after he was named the Jags’ head coach. The two previously worked together in Philadelphia.
As of right now, Shen is still listed on the Jags’ site. No formal announcement has been made by the Jaguars on Shen’s departure.
