BRIAN SHIELDS is now in his 11th year with the New York Jets. After spending the previous five seasons as director, football analytics, Shields will be taking on a new role for the 2025-26 season as player personnel, research & analytics.

In his new role, Shields will perform special research projects designed to help optimize the club's player acquisition, roster building, and decision-making strategies. His work will include examining League trends, analyzing and evaluating players, and identifying opportunities to best improve the roster.

As senior manager from 2018-20 and then director from 2020-24, Shields served as the Jets' football analytics department head for a total of seven seasons. Other responsibilities during that time included traditional scouting assignments and working with the defensive coaching staff on gameday. Prior to transitioning into analytics after the 2018 draft, he worked as a college area scout for three seasons, covering the west region.

Prior to joining the Jets, Shields spent a total of six seasons working in several roles for the St. Louis Rams, finishing as their west coast area scout from 2013-15. As a player personnel analyst in 2012, he worked in a dual pro and college scouting role.

Shields graduated from Princeton University in 2007, where he played wide receiver on the football team and competed as a sprinter for the track team. He received his MBA from the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine in 2011.

He and his wife, Christine, reside in Irvine, California