Thanks to Sean McVay, it’s no longer considered radical for an NFL team to hire a head coach in their thirties. If anything, now it’s a trend. Sorry, Kyle Shanahan, you are now on the hill. (The 49ers head coach turned 40 in December.)
But the NFL’s youth movement goes far beyond its coaching ranks.
As part of The Athletic’s Future of Football series, we wanted to travel the league to find some of the brightest rising stars from all facets of the NFL. We took nominations from our network of beatwriters spanning each of the teams, as well as contributions from league sources to compile what we believe to be a comprehensive and diverse roster of important people within the NFL universe, coaches to officers, agents to league offices.
We made the editorial decision to leave current and former players on this list (unless they take on new roles after retirement), which meant influential people like Anquan Boldin, Chris …
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