Bears add eight employees to football operations staff
Bears senior writer Larry Mayer reported that the Bears on Tuesday announced the hiring of eight new members to their football operations staff: three in the scouting department, two on the high-performance side, two in football technology and a chief of staff for coach Matt Eberflus' coaching staff.
Scouting
The three scouts joining general manager Ryan Poles' staff are Reese Hicks (West Coast), Tom Bradway (Northeast) and Ryan Cavanaugh (Midwest).
Player Personnel
On the high-performance side, the Bears hired Blair Hitchcock as director of sports nutrition and A.J. Lamb as a sports scientist. Both will report to the Clyde Emrich Director of High Performance, Brent Salazar.
Lamb brings over eight years of integrated performance experience to the Bears, most recently as a performance science associate for the NBA's Oklahoma City Thunder. Prior to that, Lamb was a supervisor/senior exercise physiologist at Zarett Rehab and Fitness in Philadelphia for five years. He also lectured in exercise science at Rowan University (Glassboro, N.J.), Penn State Abington (Abington, Pa.), and Holy Family University (Philadelphia, Pa.). Lamb currently is a PhD student at Concordia University Chicago, where he studies health and human performance. -Larry Mayer
Football Technology
The Bears added two positions to their football technology department with the hiring of Krithi Chandrakasan as director of football analytics and Ryan Hubley as a football systems developer.
Coaching Administration
Sean Magee joins the Bears as Eberflus' chief of staff after serving as associate athletic director for football at Michigan for the past five seasons.
