Jags' Khan changes plans on hiring top football exec

Jaguars Owner Shad Khan "appears to be scrapping his initial plan" to hire an Exec VP to oversee football operations, instead "leaving GM Trent Baalke and head coach Doug Pederson to be in charge of personnel decisions." Khan in early February said that the team "applied to the NFL" to hire the role. But after "spending much time at TIAA Bank Field offices since Pederson’s hire and being impressed with the environment in the building, Khan changed his mind." He still "plans to add to the front office structure, possibly an assistant GM, in a different manner." There is "no timetable in place for when additional front-office hires will be made, but the current plan likely means Baalke and Pederson will be in charge of making decisions regarding free agency" (FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, 3/1).