Hayden has been an NFL fan since he was a young child. After watching a Monday Night Football game between the Bills and the Patriots in 2009, his life has been consumed with football. His position as his high school team's statistician proves his passion for the sport, which was only reinforced upon meeting PFF's Cris Collinsworth in 2019. He is currently a fourth-year student studying mathematics at UCLA, and RotoBaller marked his first step into the sports industry.