Assistant general manager Alec Halaby, one of Howie Roseman’s most trusted associates for nearly two decades, is leaving the Philadelphia Eagles organization, the team announced Tuesday morning.
His departure comes one day after senior vice president Bryce Johnston left to join the Atlanta Falcons.
These are the latest in a long series of defections from the Eagles’ scouting department, but the loss of Halaby may be the most painful for Roseman, who initially hired Halaby as an intern in 2007.
The Harvard-educated Halaby was instrumental in bringing analytics to the Eagles’ front office when he first joined the organization, and his work in that field has been extremely advanced and important as analytics has grown into a major part of NFL scouting.