Brian Xanders has been put in charge of changing the way the Detroit Lions' scouting department evaluates players.

Xanders has been tasked with creating a new, proprietary scouting database for the Lions to use in both college and pro scouting. 

Xanders has done similar things for other teams in the past.

“There are a lot of things that you can do with it,” general manager Martin Mayhew said, via the Detroit Free Press. “If you’re on the clock or during the draft if you want to compare player to player, the ability to line up all their stats, all their measurables, all their combine data, and look at that on a screen and compare it player to player instead of going by recollection or flipping through books or changing from one database to another on a laptop. That kind of information is the kind of thing that he’s done in the past and that’s just one example. There are kind of different things we can do with it.”