Jon Dykema

Senior Director of Football Strategy and Game Management, Jacksonville Jaguars (JAX).

Quick Facts

• Role: Senior Director of Football Strategy and Game Management
• Team: Jacksonville Jaguars (JAX)
• NFL experience: Not listed
• Reports to: Liam Coen (Head Coach)
• Coaching tree: see Coaching Trees

Background

Jon Dykema enters his second season with the Jaguars in 2026 as senior director of football strategy and game management. Before coming to Jacksonville, Dykema spent 15 seasons with the Detroit Lions, most recently as the team's director of football compliance and lead football counsel (2022-24), after previously serving as manager of football administration and lead counsel (2016-2021), interim general counsel (2015) and staff counsel (2011-2014). Dykema also briefly served as executive senior associate AD/student-athlete management and assistant general counsel for Michigan State University in 2025 before joining the Jaguars.