In the Trenches of Football Analytics

Sarah Mallepalle - Player Personnel Analyst, Baltimore Ravens

Kevin Demoff - Chief Operating Officer, Los Angeles Rams

Mitch Schwartz - Former Offensive Tackle, Kansas City Chiefs

Brian Burke - Senior Analytics Specialist, ESPN

Kevin Clark (moderator) - Staff Writer, The Ringer

Although NFL executives may have been slower to embrace the analytics movement than their counterparts in MLB and NBA, 2021 marked the first year that every team in the league had a dedicated analytics staffer and was capped with the first GM hire from a true analytics background in Kwesi Adofo-Mensah. With every passing year, there are cutting-edge statistics being developed: Completion Percentage Over Expectation, Pass and Run Block Win Rate, among others. Join former All-Pro lineman Mitchell Schwartz, LA Rams COO Kevin Demoff, Ravens analyst Sarah Mallepalle and ESPN analytics expert Brian Burke to explore the different ways NFL teams are using analytics from roster-building to playcaling, with a special emphasis on what has for a long time been very tough to quantify: line play.