2010 MEDIA GUIDE - Seahawks Online Media Packet

spent three seasons with the Kansas City
Chiefs (1997-99), one year with the Seahawks
(2000) and a year with the Washington
Redskins (2001) as vice president of player
personnel.
Schneider, a native of De Pere, Wis., first
learned the tools of his trade with
the Packers, beginning as an
intern during the summer of 1992
under then-Executive Vice
President/ General Manager Ron
Wolf. After graduating from the
University of St. Thomas in St.
Paul, Minn., Schneider returned to
Green Bay, serving as pro personnel
assistant for four years (1993-
96) and playing an integral role in
the signing of several free agents
who would help make up the team
that won Super Bowl XXXI in New
Orleans.
Schneider moved on to the
Kansas City Chiefs in 1997 as
director of pro personnel, It was in
Kansas City that Schneider first
worked with Marty Schotten -
heimer, whom he would later join
in Washington. With the Chiefs,
Schneider oversaw the scouting of
all players with pro playing experience,
including NFL Europe and
the CFL, as well as the NFL. He
also conducted advance scouting
of all Kansas City opponents and
was responsible for free agent
acquisition.
In 2000, he subsequently
signed on as director of player
personnel for the Seahawks, hooking
up with Thompson and Mike
Holmgren, with whom he had
worked in Green Bay.
Schneider joined Schotten -
heimer with the Redskins in 2001
as vice president of player personnel,
overseeing all aspects of the
player personnel department,
including college scouting, the
college draft, pro scouting, free
agency and day-to-day player personnel
evaluations and operations.
His duties included assembling
and managing Washington’s
scouting staff, a process which
involved the hiring of 15 personnel
staff members and implementation
of a new scouting system. In
his role, Schneider advised
Schottenheimer on all personnel
matters.
Schneider earned a degree in
history and also studied education
at St. Thomas, playing football for
one year before a shoulder injury
cut short his career.
Born May 25, 1971, Schneider attended De
Pere’s Abbot Pennings High School and finished
as one of the school’s all-time leading
rushers. He and his wife, Traci, have two sons,
Ben, 8, and Jack, 6.
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