About SportLens
Built By
The Game.
Built For
What's Next.
SportLens was born from a simple belief: football decisions get better when the people making them can see more clearly.
Built from years inside the game, SportLens transforms evaluation, development, and performance information into Football Performance Intelligence — giving coaches a clearer understanding of their athletes and programs.
Know Your Athletes Better.Coach Better.Compete Better.
Why We Built SportLens
We've Seen Football
From Every Side.
Player. Coach. Evaluator. Developer. Program leader.
SportLens was built by football people who have spent decades inside the game — playing it, teaching it, evaluating it, developing athletes, and making the same decisions coaches make every day.
Through all of those experiences, we kept seeing the same problem: football programs create more information than ever, but too much of that information remains disconnected, subjective, or temporary.
Film lives in one place. Testing data lives somewhere else. Evaluations live on paper, spreadsheets, or in a coach's head. Development happens every day, but much of that knowledge disappears when practice ends.
Football has more information than ever.
Information isn't the same thing as intelligence.
So We Asked A Different Question
What If A Football Program Could Actually Learn?
From Information To Intelligence
The Game Was Already
Creating The Data.
It Just Wasn't Connected.
That realization changed the direction of SportLens.
Evaluation was only the beginning. The deeper we went, the more we saw that football programs were already producing valuable information every day through practice, film, testing, competition, coaching, development, and performance.
The problem wasn't a lack of information. The problem was that the information rarely lived together long enough to become useful intelligence.
SportLens began connecting those pieces — creating a clearer picture of the athlete, the decisions being made around that athlete, and the development happening over time.
Performance data became context.
Context became understanding.
Understanding became Football Performance Intelligence.
01
Capture
Preserve what coaches and athletes are already creating.
02
Connect
Bring evaluations, performance, development, and history together.
03
Understand
Turn isolated information into meaningful football context.
04
Decide
Give coaches a clearer foundation for football decisions.
05
Improve
Let every decision and rep contribute to what the program learns next.
The Evolution Of SportLens
Not More Data. Better Football Intelligence.
The People Behind The Intelligence
Built By People Who Have
Lived The Game.
Three former University of Texas football players. Decades of experience playing, coaching, evaluating, developing athletes, and leading football programs.
SportLens wasn't built by people studying football from the outside. It was built by people who have spent their lives inside it.
Player Experience•Coaching Experience•Program Leadership•Performance Development
Founder Profile
Derrick Scott
Founder & CEO
Development • Performance • Leadership
Former Texas Longhorn tight end, coach, and performance developer, Derrick Scott has spent his career helping athletes turn preparation into performance. His experience in strength and conditioning, skill development, coaching, and championship football helped shape the development philosophy behind SportLens.
Playing Career
University of Texas Longhorns
Tight End • 1995–1998
• Four-year letterman at tight end
• Member of the 1996 Big 12 Championship team
• Member of the 1998 Cotton Bowl team
Coaching Experience
Texas Football — Strength & Conditioning
Austin Rattlers — Special Teams Coordinator & Tight Ends Coach
High school football, private skill development, and athlete performance training
Championship Experience
Back-to-Back NAFL Champions
Austin Rattlers • 2000 & 2001
Championship Coaching Staff
University of Texas Football • 2005–2012
Coaching Certifications
Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist
CSCS
USA Football Coaching Certification
Sports Analytics & Data-Driven Coaching
Speed & Agility Specialist
Areas of Expertise
Skill & Position Development
Position-specific technique and athlete development.
Strength & Conditioning
Performance development built around football demands.
Football Evaluation
Turning observation into useful development information.
Drill Design & Curriculum
Building training environments that reveal and develop skill.
Three Paths Through The Game.
One Shared Standard.
Football • Championship • Development
Former Texas Longhorn tight end, professional football player, and longtime coach, Derek Lewis brings championship experience from the field, the weight room, and the sideline. His background in player development, coaching, evaluation, and football performance helped shape the football intelligence behind SportLens.
Playing Career
University of Texas Longhorns
Tight End • 1996–1998
• Member of the 1996 Big 12 Championship team
• Part of one of the defining plays in Texas football history — “Roll Left”
• All-Big 12 tight end
Professional Football
St. Louis Rams
• Super Bowl XXXIV Champion
Coaching Experience
University of Texas Football
Minnesota Football
Florida Football
Air Force Football
High school football and athlete development
Championship Experience
Super Bowl XXXIV Champion
St. Louis Rams
National Championship Staff
University of Texas Football • 2005
Coaching / Football Development
Collegiate Football Coaching
Strength & Performance Development
Film & Player Evaluation
Position Development
Areas of Expertise
Tight End Development
Position-specific technique, leverage, blocking, route development, and football IQ.
Strength & Performance
Developing athletes around the physical demands of football.
Football Evaluation
Connecting film, performance, technique, and development.
Player Development
Turning coaching experience into actionable development plans.
Founder Profile
Derek Lewis
President & Co-Founder
Founder Profile
Kwame Cavil
Co-Founder & Creative Lead
Coaching • Development • Program Leadership
Former Texas Longhorn All-American wide receiver, professional football player, championship-winning pro, coach, and program leader, Kwame Cavil has experienced football from the athlete, coaching, development, and leadership sides of the game.
From record-setting seasons at the University of Texas to professional football in the NFL, NFL Europe, and CFL, his career eventually brought him back to Texas football as a coach and head football coach. That combination of playing experience, athlete development, teaching, program leadership, and football communication helped shape the coaching and creative perspective behind SportLens.
Playing Career
University of Texas Longhorns
Wide Receiver • 1997–1999
• 1999 Associated Press Second-Team All-American
• 1999 First-Team All-Big 12
• 1999 Darrell K Royal Most Valuable Player
• 1999 Texas Most Outstanding Wide Receiver
• 100 receptions for 1,188 receiving yards in 1999
• Set University of Texas and Big 12 single-season records for receptions and receiving yards
• 174 career receptions
• 2,279 career receiving yards
• 10 career receiving touchdowns
Professional Football
NFL • NFL Europe • CFL
Buffalo Bills
NFL • 2000
• Played in all 16 regular-season games
• 4 receptions for 66 yards
• Contributed on special teams
• Cleveland Browns
• Scottish Claymores → Berlin Thunder — NFL Europe, 2002
• Montreal Alouettes
• Edmonton Eskimos
• Hamilton Tiger-Cats
• Winnipeg Blue Bombers
Pro Career Distinction
CFL East Division All-Star
2004 • Montreal Alouettes
• 78 receptions
• 1,090 receiving yards
• 7 touchdowns
Part of the first receiving corps in CFL history to feature four 1,000-yard receivers in the same season.
Championship Experience
World Bowl Champion
Berlin Thunder • 2002
Grey Cup Champion
Montreal Alouettes • 2002
Grey Cup Championship Team
Edmonton Eskimos • 2005
Coaching Experience
Manor High School
• Wide receivers
• Defensive backs
• Special teams
• Helped the program reach the 2012 Class 4A Division II state semifinals
Temple High School
Wide Receivers Coach • Lead Play Signaler
• Member of the coaching staff that reached the 2016 UIL state championship game
LBJ Early College High School
Assistant Football Coach
Waco High School
Head Football Coach • 2018–2020
• Returned to his alma mater as head football coach
• Led and developed a Class 6A Texas high school football program
Coaching / Football Development
Receiver Development
Route technique, releases, separation, leverage, ball skills, and football IQ.
Player Development
Connecting preparation, evaluation, skill development, and long-term athlete growth.
Program Leadership
Building standards, culture, coaching alignment, and athlete-development environments.
Football Curriculum
Designing drills, teaching progressions, camps, position development, and football learning experiences.
Areas of Expertise
Receiver Development
Position-specific technique, route running, releases, separation, and ball skills.
Coaching & Program Leadership
Developing players, coaches, standards, culture, and football environments.
Football Evaluation
Connecting what happens on film and on the field to meaningful development information.
Curriculum & Experience Design
Translating football knowledge into coaching systems, development experiences, camps, communication, and SportLens product thinking.
Playing The Game Created Experience.
Coaching The Game Created Perspective.
Building SportLens Connected The Two.
The Standard Behind SportLens
See More.
Understand More.
Develop Better.
SportLens is built around a simple idea: every evaluation, every rep, every development decision, and every piece of athlete history should contribute to a clearer understanding of the athlete and the program.
That intelligence should not live in disconnected reports, spreadsheets, or systems.
It should connect.
And when it connects, it should help the people responsible for development make better football decisions.
01
One System
Evaluation, development, athlete history, and performance intelligence working together.
02
Coaching At The Center
SportLens works within the standards, terminology, philosophy, and coaching structure already established by the program.
03
Development That Continues
Every evaluation and development cycle contributes to the athlete's living football record.
04
Intelligence That Compounds
What the athlete and program learn today should make tomorrow's decisions better.
The Goal Isn't More Data.
The Goal Is A Football Program That Knows More Because It Learns From Everything It Does.
This Is What We're Building
SportLens
The Football Performance Intelligence Platform
One connected football intelligence system built to help athletes, coaches, and programs understand more, develop with purpose, and make better decisions.