Coach Brian Daboll hired Cade Knox as an offensive assistant/game manager.
Knox spent the 2020 season with the Giants as a football data and innovation intern. Daboll was asked if Knox's promotion is an indication he will "lean" on analytics.
"We used that heavily (in Buffalo)," Daboll said of his stint as the Bills' offensive coordinator. "It's a part of the process. It's a tool to use. As a Harvard graduate who played quarterback and moved to receiver, (Knox) was working in the analytics room. I'd say we have a number of people back there who are highly, highly intelligent in that area who were there before me. I sat down and talked to a variety of them. Cade played quarterback, played receiver, very, very smart, so he'll be up in the box during the game. He'll have a headset on.
"You do a lot of planning. (Game management decisions) are not spur of the moment. What we did in Buffalo is similar to what we'll do here, Friday meetings and Thursday meetings on a lot of different situations and scenarios that come up. You never know when they're going to come up and you have to make split-second decisions. It's always good to have a voice that is there with you in the heat of the process when you are doing other things, too. He is an impressive young man."
Knox is a 2020 graduate of Harvard, where he earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and was a wide receiver on the football team.
Knox is a native of Phoenix, where he was all-section honorable mention at quarterback and defensive back at Brophy College Prep.
