Jason Wright might be Washington Football Team’s most significant hire

The hire of Jason Wright

The Washington Football Team left the position of team president vacant for most of the offseason, but when they needed a new president with a vision the most — stuck in the middle of a thorough rebranding process and a fan re-energization project — they brought on Jason Wright.

At the immediate outset of his hire, Wright became not only the first black team president in NFL history, but also became the youngest team president in the NFL at just 38 years old.

Wright has a unique background as a team president; being only the fourth former player to obtain the position, Wright has inside experience on how business dealings up top may impact events on the field, and he was also a captain and an NFLPA representative as a player. But no detail is more relevant, perhaps, than his work at McKinsy and Company, a firm renowned for its work consulting with businesses and improving business cultures, as well as fostering inclusion.

The thing that Washington needed most, in the wake of Bruce Allen’s ouster, was a cultural overhaul. Ron Rivera helped kick off that culture change, but he can only work alongside Dan Snyder for so long as the head coach. Wright’s very job, however, will be to work on the same plane as Snyder and make sure that the Washington Football Team is finally engaging in meaningful change.