The Washington football team, which has been embroiled in controversy for most of the year due to his previous call and allegations of sexual harassment, announced Monday morning that he had hired Jason Wright as team president, making him the first black team president in NFL history. . Training
Wright is only the first president of a black team in the league’s 101-year history, and only the fourth-time former player to hold the position, at 38, although Wright is also the youngest president of the NFL team.
Wright, an undrafted loose agent returning from the Northwest, played in the NFL for seven years, serving in San Francisco, Atlanta, Cleveland and Arizona.
After retiring in 2010, Wright earned his MBA with honors from the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago and was a spouse at the global strategy and control consulting firm, McKinsey and Company in D.C.
“This team, right now, is an ideal opportunity for me,” Wright said in a statement. “The transformation of the Washington football team is taking place in every facet of the organization, from football to operations, brand and culture, and will make us an ambitious and fashionable franchise.”
The Washington football team has not had president since Bruce Allen was fired after the 2019 campaign.
ESPN reports that Wright will focus only on the advertising aspect of franchise operations, adding finance, sales and marketing, while coach Ron Rivera will handle football decisions.
This summer, after the growing strain of major stores and Native American leaders, Washington announced that it would remove the “Redskins” call and logo, joining a developing list of organizations and entities that recently ended their agreement with discriminatory calls and symbols after the fight against racism protests. The resolution came after 87 investors representing $620 billion in assets wrote a letter asking FedEx, Nike and PepsiCo to cut ties with the team if they refused to replace their calls. In addition, Walmart and Target said they would remove Redskins products from their retail outlets and online outlets. Then, in mid-July, The Washington Post released a report detailing the court cases of 15 former Redskins workers who claimed to have been sexually harassed and verbally abused while at the club. According to the report, incidents beyond the point occurred from 2006 to 2019, meaning they covered the maximum part of Dan Snyder’s mandate as his own um. Snyder issued a statement: “This story reinforced my commitment to building a new culture and a new popular one for our team.” Washington fired two former workplace members, Alex Santos and Richard Mann II, the week before the post article was published.
“If I could design a tailor-made leader for this era vital in our history, it would be Jason,” Snyder said Monday. “His delight as a former payer, along with his business acumen, provides him with an unprecedented experience in the league. We won’t rest until we’re a championship-caliber team, on and off the field.”
Dan Snyder has been fighting hard to abandon the Redskins’ call for much of the decade. “We will never replace the team call,” Snyder told USA TODAY in May 2013. “It is so. NEVER, you can wear caps.”
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