Rob Rogers enters his 26th NFL season and first as Washington's Senior Vice President of Football Administration in 2020.
Rob Rogers comes to Washington after 25 seasons with the Carolina Panthers, most recently as the team's executive director of player finance and football research.
In this role, he worked closely with the Panthers general manager on the development of player budget parameters, roster management, contract proposals, negotiation strategies and salary cap management. He created the database and built the framework for internal contract and salary cap analysis tools as part of the research and analysis of player contracts and statistics. He directly conducted the majority of contract negotiations with player representatives during his time in this role.
Before gaining the title of executive director of player finance and football research, Rogers was the director of football administration for 11 years (2008-18). He negotiated contracts for all of the Panthers' first-round and other draft selections during a 16-year span (2003-19) along with numerous free agents. He also worked with the front office on issues dealing with the NFL Collective Bargaining agreement, and as the club's liaison to the NFL Management Council, he kept the Panthers in compliance with all NFL personnel, contract and labor-related issues.
In 2013, Rogers took on a lead role in Carolina's developing efforts in analytics and football research in the areas of personnel, opponent analysis and self-scouting along with sports science and the nascent Next Gen statistics. During this time he worked with in-house developers to design a new pro scouting system as well as worked extensively with Coach Rivera's on-going efforts to develop game management analysis and practices.
Rogers is also a member of the NFL Club Services Committee, a group made of various front office executives from around the league tasked with providing guidance and feedback on technology integration initiatives to the development staff of the NFL Management Council. He has served on the committee since 2002.
Rogers joined the Carolina Panthers in 1995 and worked as a quality control assistant alongside the coaching staff primarily focused on playbook and data solutions which included contributing to the design and implementation of the team's original opponent analysis and self-scouting system. In 1999 he transitioned to a role working with salary cap management and contract negotiations which became his official position in 2002 when he became one of the team's primary negotiators under newly-named General Manager Marty Hurney.
Rogers and his wife Clair have two children: daughter Emma and son Brady.
