He’s 19, studying business, and has a nearly photographic mind for statistics; especially NFL related.

His dream job is a General Manager type role where he is heavily involved in the draft and choosing the players.

How does a person even get into that field?

I mean, you don’t just go to Indeed and find these jobs.

I'd be willing to bet you have to know somebody, have the right contacts to get in.

Roger Goodell Reportedly Makes $63.9 Million Per Year. It's good work if you can get it.

Well Goodall is 63. You have to know people. A friend of mine got himself into the pressbox as a spotter as an undergraduate. He got to know the folks from ABC and things went from there. He did Monday Night Football behind the scenes and later was a salary cap negotiator for an NFL team. He never played sports. If he is so good at stats maybe he could get into coaching. Charlie Weiss's kid is a good example. He has a photographic mind.

Send in his resume for an intern position?

Start at a good college with a good football program, work his way up while in school, 4 years working stats for Alabama, Oklahoma, etc would do wonders for him, probably post grad work at a top school.

and know a guy, who knows a guy that met a guy who can get him in for an interview

Here's what Brandon Beane (Bills) had to say about getting his start.

If his school has a football program, he should get involved there with their analytics group.

But the short answer is, he will have 32 letters to write and introduce himself to an organization that doesn't necessarily recruit out of college. It'll probably start as an internship.

Last thing I'd say is that if he doesn't or didn't play football, he best brush up on it and be able to talk offenses and defenses. You can be a great number cruncher but if you don't know what you're looking for as far as being a statistician or data analytics guru, you won't get too far.

First step is likely becoming a Grad Assistant for a college football team.

You can make it in baseball as an analytics guy without knowing the game as much, but it is harder in football which is nowhere near as statistically-driven. You need talent evaluation experience.

I think you could gather a list of a few dozen or so jobs underneath that goal, and work every angle to get attached to an org and work into it. I think there are "Sports Management" B.S. degrees. In a program like that, you might be able to score an interview for an internship.

Something like this --

https://www.sru.edu/academics/...nts/sport-management

Sports managment degrees are no key to success. Professors of sports managment are not the real deal. Your major does not matter so much. It is your contacts. For example, ALL of the big time football coaches know each other. Kelly, Saban, Riley, Kiffen, Fisher. When they leave a program they try and take their guys{often 20 or 30 with them}. All of the major football teams have managers and students who work behind the scenes. Go to a major University and you will meet the folks you need to know.