When reached by phone, Jason Wright was smack dab in the middle of a whirlwind Monday full of nonstop questions and more interviews than he could count. Yet, he continued to smile, his chuckle constant, his optimism evident.
Just hours earlier, the 38-year-old was named team president of the Washington Football Team, becoming the youngest person to hold the position in the NFL and also the first African American to do so.
For a franchise that has been beleaguered for weeks, particularly following troubling allegations of sexual harassment by former scouts and members of team owner Dan Snyder’s inner circle, it was a striking hire that reverberated throughout a league that has 70 percent Black players but struggles with representation at the leadership levels among its 32 franchises.