Hannah McNair, the Houston Texans Foundation’s key architect of community outreach, has been named Co‑Chair of the NFL’s Flag Football Committee alongside Kalen Jackson, a move that signals the league’s intensified focus on growing the sport across the globe.
Strategic Vision for Global Growth
McNair’s appointment follows her tenure on the NFL Flag Football Working Group launched in 2025, where she helped shape the strategic framework that now underpins the Committee’s mandate to commercialize flag football and broaden its reach, especially among women and young athletes.
The Texas Girls Flag Football Program, which McNair has championed, has surged by more than 1,500 percent since her advocacy began, now engaging roughly 6,000 female student‑athletes across 270 schools—a testament to her impact on the state’s grassroots landscape.
Under the Committee’s guidance, flag football is slated to become an Olympic event at the 2028 Los Angeles Games, a milestone that the NFL hopes will accelerate both participation and revenue streams worldwide.
The partnership with Dallas Cowboys owner Charlotte Jones underscores a broader coalition of franchise leaders backing the sport’s rise, while the transition from a Working Group to a formal Committee reflects the NFL’s strategic commitment to sustained development.
With the UIL set to consider sanctioning girls flag football for high school competition beginning in the 2027‑28 academic year, McNair’s efforts may soon see the sport integrated into Texas’s official high school athletics, further cementing its place in the American sporting fabric.