Meet Evan

A Finance student at the College of Charleston, Evan is currently interning with the New York Jets in Gameday & Event Experience and the Somerset Patriots in Purchasing & Receiving this summer, while continuing his role as a Football Video Operations Assistant at Charleston Southern University. His focus is on roster construction, salary cap mechanics, and front office decision-making

Personnel Profile

I'm Evan Hanvey. Senior at the College of Charleston, majoring in Finance. I have one goal: build a career in an NFL organization.

I don't just watch football. I study it relentlessly.

I'm not waiting until I have a job title to start doing the work. Right now, I'm studying player evaluation frameworks, working through the Collective Bargaining Agreement to understand contract language and the rules of the game beneath the surface, and building my own analytics projects using real NFL data. I've had direct conversations with scouts, executives, and personnel staff inside NFL buildings who have challenged me, given guidance, and pushed my thinking.

Here's what I actually do. I look at a roster and immediately see where a team is strong, where they're exposed, and what moves make sense in free agency and the draft. I study coaching hires, the philosophy behind them, and what they signal about an organization's direction. I track front office decisions and the people making them. I break down contracts not just for the numbers but for what the structure tells you about how a team values a player or position and what their next deal might look like. I always look for the why behind every move.

I built this site because I believe the reps you put in before anyone is watching are the ones that matter most. Every piece of content here is an attempt to get 1% sharper, to think through a problem in public, stress-test my own analysis, and document the process of building real football expertise. I am always looking to learn, connect, and be challenged by people who take the game as seriously as I do.

Experience & How I Got Here

New York Jets | East Rutherford, NJ | 05/26-Present | Gameday & Event Experience Intern
Duties: Operate the tracking station during Player Media Day, logging player participation across designated media segments for use by team communications staff. Execute setup logistics for Fan Media Day activations and private player family events, ensuring readiness across high-traffic, high-visibility settings. Support fan activations and experiences both inside and outside MetLife Stadium during training camp, game days, and year-round team events. Operate within strict NFL gameday protocols, upholding organizational standards for professionalism and attention to detail.

Somerset Patriots | HomePlate Catering & Hospitality | Bridgewater, NJ | 05/26-Present | Purchasing & Receiving Intern
Duties: Purchase product directly from vendors and manage the full receiving process, including distribution of deliveries to correct stand locations and verification against orders. Log all invoices into internal systems and Excel daily. Track inventory before and after every home game to monitor usage and inform future game-day ordering, preventing over- and under-stocking. Monitor cash drops from the front office to individual concession stands throughout the ballpark. Check fridge and freezer temperatures across the facility to maintain food safety standards and prevent spoilage. Serve as a trusted game-day supervisor, fielding staff questions and resolving issues in real time.

Charleston Southern University Football | Charleston, SC | 02/26-Present | Football Video Operations Assistant
Duties: Capture All-22 and endzone film for Division I FCS practices and scrimmages using DJI UAV equipment. Manage full film upload workflow into Catapult Thunder, including SIM card extraction, format conversion, and metadata tagging for immediate coaching access. Label and organize footage by offense, defense, individual drills, and team periods to streamline staff review. Trim and cut footage as needed to support an efficient coaching workflow. Sit in on position-group meetings and film review sessions ahead of practice. Assist with recruiting visits, including hospitality and Q&A support for prospective student-athletes and families.

College of Charleston Athletic Department | Charleston, SC | 02/26-Present | Operations Intern
Duties: Prepare playing surfaces and facility setup for men's basketball, including court maintenance, basket changes, and officials' area setup. Set up visiting team locker rooms, courtside replay tables, and broadcast microphones ahead of games. Prepare umpire locker rooms and communication equipment for baseball games. Verify bat eligibility for home and visiting teams prior to first pitch. Supply game officials with equipment and support throughout contests.

NFL On Location Super Bowl LX | Santa Clara, CA | 02/26 | Event Operations Staff
Duties: Trusted to run one of the highest-traffic zones at the event, an area covering several of the stadium's prime fan activities, managing flow, wayfinding, and real-time issue resolution throughout the day. Served as a primary point of contact for fan questions and guest needs in that zone. Provided guest services support for team-affiliated VIP stakeholders, ensuring smooth entry and movement throughout the event. Went beyond assigned responsibilities by helping navigate media members to their correct locations across the stadium. At the conclusion of the game, was responsible for ensuring players' families and friends exited the stadium cleanly and connected with their transportation. Operated under strict security and performance protocols throughout the NFL's largest live event.

College of Charleston | Finance Major. Analytics-Focused Coursework.
Built a curriculum around developing real analytical tools. Finance for understanding how value is allocated, structured, and negotiated, the language of every contract, every cap decision, every trade. Paired that with a focus on business analytics coursework, accounting data analytics, enterprise data management, business statistics, and data science, to build the kind of modeling skill that lets data support decision making rather then decisions based solely on feel. Added psychology coursework to better understand communication, decision-making, and how people actually operate under pressure, knowledge that often gets overlooked. Dean's List, Fall 2025, Spring 2026 and Vice President of two student organizations simultaneously.

Building the Stack
Front offices are increasingly run on data, and I'm not waiting for a job to start building that skill set. Completed a full Python data analysis curriculum through DataCamp, Introduction to Python, Data Manipulation with Pandas, Joining Data with Pandas, Introduction to Seaborn, and Introduction to Statistics in Python, along with Microsoft certifications in Business Analysis Fundamentals and Data for Business Analysts. I use AI tools as a way to accelerate my work by automating data cleaning, accelerating research, and stress-testing my own analysis so I can move faster from a question to a defensible answer. My goal is to make sure that when I'm evaluating a roster decision, I have every tool, every data point, and every angle available to make the right call.

Projects & Articles
This is where my thinking gets tested. I built the NFL Relational Intelligence Database, a high-performance system using Python and DuckDB that integrates over 500,000 data points across player production, injury history, and contract structures, mapping relationships across more than 24,000 players to simulate the kind of decision-making a front office actually does. I also built a logistic regression model analyzing 160 NFL team seasons across 63 metrics to identify what most reliably predicts playoff qualification, margin of victory, turnover differential, and red zone execution rose to the top. That same thinking is what drives every article on this site, team by team, decision by decision, an attempt to evaluate the way a front office would: what they did, why they did it, and what it signals about where the organization is headed. Every project and every article starts with a real football question and ends with an answer I can defend with data and reasoning.

The Origin | Scotch Plains-Fanwood Raiders
Played varsity linebacker throughout high school. Elected Team Captain by teammates and coaches for the 2022 season, earned the Raider Team MVP Award, and received multiple collegiate scholarship offers. Football was never just a game I watched, it was something I competed in and led. That competitive instinct, the drive to be the guy making the calls and held accountable for them, is the same instinct that pulls me toward the front office now.

Education

Accomplishments

Dean's List Fall 2025
Dean’s List Spring 2026
Vice President of Kappa Alpha Order
Vice President of the Sports Career Club.

College of Charleston | Charleston, SC | 07/23 - Present
Graduation Year: 2027 | Bachelor’s Degree | Finance

Skills

Technical: Catapult Thunder, DJI Drone Filming, Python (pandas, numpy, Matplotlib, Seaborn, nflreadpy), Logistic & Linear Regression, Excel, Tableau, DuckDB, SQL, Notion, AI-Assisted Workflows & Automation

Football Operations: Cap Mechanics & CBA Analysis, Roster Construction Analysis, Event Operations, Film Operations & Capture

Personal: Team Leadership, Cross-Team Collaboration, Excel in both individual and group work settings, Conflict Resolution, Time Management, Detail Oriented, Persistent & Strategic