George Li enters his second season with the Panthers after joining the staff in 2023 as the game management coordinator after spending five seasons with the Indianapolis Colts in the club's senior football strategy analyst/game management position.
With the Colts, Li provided analytical research to the coaching and personnel staffs, advised the head coach on game management situations and served as an officiating expert on rule changes/points of emphasis, penalty trends and replay reviews. During his time with Indianapolis, the Colts ranked fifth in both fewest penalties (5.6 per game) and penalty margin (68 fewer penalties than opponents). Their 15 successful challenges during that span were tied for fourth most, including 8 of 11 challenges being successful from 2021-22 (first in successful challenges, third in successful challenge percentage – 73%).
Prior to the Colts, he worked for the Oakland Raiders in various roles for seven seasons (2011-17), starting as a defensive assistant for defensive coordinator Chuck Bresnahan (2011) to most recently serving as the team's director of coaching analytics. With his input (2012-17), the Raiders were successful on 17 of 31 challenges, ranking fourth with a successful challenge rate of 55%. In 2016, he was part of an Oakland staff that went 12-4 and reached the playoffs for the first time since 2002.
Before joining the Raiders, Li covered the NFL for 5 seasons at NFL Network most recently as lead researcher and was also a researcher at ESPN.
Li graduated from the University of California-Riverside with a degree in business administration (2003). He and his wife, Denise, have a daughter, Taylor, and son, Joshua.
2011 | Oakland Raiders - Defensive Assistant
2012-16 | Oakland Raiders - Football Operations Statistical Analyst
2017 | Oakland Raiders - Director of Coaching Analytics
2018-22 | Indianapolis Colts - Senior Football Analyst/Game Management
2023-pres | Carolina Panthers - Game Management Coordinator
