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Jaguars request interview with Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown

The Jacksonville Jaguars have requested an interview with New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown for their GM position.

For the second consecutive year, the New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown has drawn interest from other organizations for their vacant general manager positions.

Earlier this offseason, the Las Vegas Raiders interviewed Brown twice before eventually passing on him in favor of Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant general manager John Spytek.

As it turns out, Brown may get another crack at interviewing for a general manager job soon enough.

NFL insider Jordan Schultz reports that the Jacksonville Jaguars have requested permission to interview Brown.

It seemed inevitable that the Jaguars would eventually interview Brown after they “parted ways” with Trent Baalke in late January.

In addition to the Raiders and Jaguars this year, Brown also interviewed with the Los Angeles Chargers and Carolina Panthers last year.

If the Jaguars hire Brown, the Giants would be compensated with a third-round compensatory pick in each of the next two drafts under the Rooney Rule.

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Raiders pass on Giants’ Brandon Brown for general manager job

The Las Vegas Raiders are passing on New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown in favor of John Spytek.

New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown is expected to return to the team in 2025 after being passed over by the Las Vegas Raiders.

On Wednesday, it was reported that the Raiders would be hiring assistant general manager John Spytek for their GM role following an extensive search.

Brown received both a virtual and in-person interview with the Raiders, the most recent of the two coming earlier this week. It was the second consecutive cycle in which he was considered a finalist but failed to land a job.

Last year, Brown interviewed with the Los Angeles Chargers and Carolina Panthers but was ultimately passed over.

Despite expectations that Brown will return to East Rutherford, there is one general manager job that remains open.

The Jacksonville Jaguars “parted ways” with Trent Baalke on Wednesday amid their head coaching search, creating the final opening of this cycle. Whether or not they’ll request to interview Brown remains to be seen.

Current Giants general manager Joe Schoen signed Brown away from the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022 after he had spent five seasons with the team, serving in multiple roles, including director of pro scouting and director of player personnel.

Should Brown land a GM job, the Giants would be compensated with a third-round compensatory pick in each of the next two drafts under the Rooney Rule.

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Raiders to hold in-person GM interview with Giants Assistant GM

The Raiders are bringing in current Assistant GM and former member of Eagles front office Brandon Brown for a GM interview Monday.

The Raiders search for a new GM is heating up now entering its second week. Monday they will interview with Giants Assistant GM Brandon Brown for the second time. This time an in-person interview.

Brown is entering his tenth year in NFL front offices.

He started in Indianapolis as a scouting assistant in 2015. After two seasons, he was hired on with the Eagles, first as Assistant Director of Pro Scouting (2017-18) and then as Director of Pro Scouting (2019-20), then as Director of Player Personnel (2021).

The Eagles were very successful during Brown’s time with the organization, including winning their first Super Bowl in franchise history in Brown’s first year there under GM Howie Roseman.

He has been Assistant GM with the Giants since 2022.

Giants’ Brandon Brown will have second GM interview with Raiders

New York Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown will meet with the Las Vegas Raiders in person on Monday for their vacant general manager job.

The Las Vegas Raiders requested and were granted permission to interview New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown earlier this week.

The two sides met virtually and will now move on to stage two.

NFL insider Jordan Schultz reports that Brown will meet with the Raiders in person on Monday. This is officially his second interview for the team’s vacant general manager position.

A rising executive, Brown also interviewed with the Los Angeles Chargers and Carolina Panthers last year but was ultimately passed over.

Current Giants general manager Joe Schoen signed Brown away from the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022 after he had spent five seasons with the team, serving in multiple roles, including director of pro scouting and director of player personnel.

Brown will eventually land a general manager job. If it happens this year, the Giants will be compensated with a third-round compensatory pick in each of the next two drafts under the Rooney Rule.

However, after losing fellow executive Ryan Cowden to the New England Patriots, the Giants would likely prefer Brown stick around.

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Raiders request interview with Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown

The Las Vegas Raiders have requested an interview with New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Browns for their vacant GM position.

The Las Vegas Raiders continue to search for a new general manager after firing Tom Telesco following the 2024 season, and now they’ve reached out to the New York Giants.

Jonathan Jones of CBS Sports reports that the Raiders have requested an interview with Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown.

For Brown, 36, this represents his first interview of the current GM cycle. Last year, he interviewed with the Los Angeles Chargers and Carolina Panthers but was ultimately passed over.

Current Giants general manager Joe Schoen signed Brown away from the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022 after he had spent five seasons with the team, serving in multiple roles, including director of pro scouting and director of player personnel.

Despite this being his first interview of 2025, Brown is considered a hot candidate around the league. He will eventually land a general manager job and if it happens this year, the Giants will be compensated with a third-round compensatory pick in each of the next two drafts under the Rooney Rule.

However, the Giants would ideally like to retain Brown, given that their power structure has already taken a hit with the loss of executive Ryan Cowden.

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Brandon Brown to participate in NFL’s front office & GM accelerator program

New York Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown will participate in the NFL’s front office and general manager accelerator program.

Should the New York Giants decide to clean house after this historically down season, they may not have to look far for their next general manager.

They have a very talented, young executive-in-waiting right under their roof in Long Island native Brandon Brown, their 35-year-old assistant general manager.

Brown, 35, has been general manager Joe Schoen’s assistant since 2022. He was hired away from the Philadelphia Eagles after five years in their front office under GM Howie Roseman.

Brown is considered one of the top up-and-coming names in the NFL front office carousel and the Giants have a choice to make with him soon or risk losing him.

They could lose Brown as early as next month. This week, he will be front and center at the Front Office and General Manager Accelerator Program at the league meeting in Irving, Texas.

Teams looking for 21st-century football minds will be paying close attention. Brown checks a heckuva lot of boxes. He’s learned both the right way and, unfortunately, the wrong way to run a pro football operation.

Brown had multiple rounds of interviews with the Los Angeles Chargers and Carolina Panthers last winter and was a serious candidate.

This winter, Brown will likely receive more interest among teams seeking to rebuild and modernize. If the Giants aren’t one of those teams, they will likely lose him.

If they do, they would be eligible to receive multiple compensatory third-round draft picks as compensation under NFL 2020 Resolution JC-2A which states:

The employer-club of a minority employee who has been hired by another club as its Head Coach or Primary Football Executive (General Manager) shall receive Draft choice compensation in the form of a compensatory Draft pick in the third round in each of the next two Drafts for an employee hired as either a Head Coach or Primary Football Executive, or for the next three Drafts if it has two employees hired for both positions.

Brown would naturally be hired as a GM and not as a coach, so the Giants would be in line to receive two third-round compensatory picks if he is hired away by another organization.

The next few weeks may be the determinant for Schoen, who has already made massive changes to the Giants’ personnel to no avail. With no quarterback of the future on the roster and much more work to be done, the Giants could seek to start over.

Could they push the reboot button with Brown as their head man?

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Brandon Brown on Tyrone Tracy: ‘We knew there would be good return on investment’

New York Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown said the team had a feeling rookie RB Tyron Tracy Jr. would be a good return on their investment.

The New York Giants knew they might have found a gem in the fifth round of the 2024 NFL draft with Purdue running back Tyrone Tracy Jr.

Tracy had an interesting college career beginning as a wide receiver at Iowa before transferring to Purdue and switching to running back.

As a result Tracy, who will turn 25 later this month, has had a lot of experience at the college level and is more mature than most rookies. He has hit the ground running (so to speak) and leads all NFL rookies in rushing with 545 yards.

Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown spoke about Tracy on The Athletic’s podcast, The Playcallers, recently and how the team vetted him from every possible angle.

“We knew there would be good return on investment at the point where we could get him because the marketplace would devalue him as an older player with a limited resume,” Brown said.

That limited resume, combined with the Giants’ intensive scouting of Tracy, allowed him to fall into the fifth round, where Big Blue selected him with the 166th overall pick.

The record for most yards by a Giants rookie is 1,307 by Saquon Barkley (2018). Tracy is not likely to get there with seven games remaining, but anything is possible.

Tracy’s recent fumble that cost the Giants a possible victory in Munich against the Carolina Panthers won’t preclude them from featuring him going forward. They know what they have.

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Giants will scour the waiver wire for cornerbacks, other positions

New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown says the team will be very active on the waiver wire after final cuts.

Even after the New York Giants make final cuts and trim their roster to 53 men next Tuesday, the work won’t be done.

In the 24 hours after final cuts, players subjected to waivers will be claimed and the Giants, who are sixth in waiver priority, are among the teams who will be making claims.

During a press conference on Tuesday afternoon, assistant general manager Brandon Brown made it clear the Giants will be active in the aftermath of the annual chaos as they seek upgrades at cornerback and other positions.

“We’re always going to be aggressive,” Brown told reporters. “We want to make sure that if there is an opportunity to bolster, especially the backend of the roster, depth, and special team contributors, we’re not going to apologize for trying to do that. I think it’s going to be meticulous.

“Between these first two weeks that have been gone from the film plus the Hall of Fame game and this last week coming up. It’s just figuring out those, ‘Where is surplus in the market? Where are teams that may have guys that are on the bubble or the trade block? How thick does it look? Where would we be versus our competitors that may be ahead of us in the claim order or those that may be behind us?'”

Brown noted that the Giants have added players like Nick McCloud and Jason Pinnock in the past in addition to Fabian Moreau, who started 11 games for the Giants in 2022.

“We’re going to do the same thing again,” Brown said. “It may be, obviously, at different positions.”

Expect a wave of transactions next Tuesday and then again on Wednesday.

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Where LSU’s 2025 recruiting class ranks after latest commit

Where does LSU’s recruiting class rank after the latest addition?

LSU added to its stellar 2025 class over the weekend, flipping four-star cornerback [autotag]Kade Phillips[/autotag] from Texas. According to On3, Phillips is the No. 7 ranked corner in the country and No. 65 overall recruit.

The Industry Rankings slate Phillips 164th overall, making him the 13th top 200 recruit to join LSU’s class.

With the addition, LSU’s class remained at No. 3 in the nation, but the Tigers closed the gap with Alabama and Ohio State. Just .079 points separate LSU and Ohio State’s classes now.

247Sports agrees with On3, ranking LSU at No. 3 too.

Phillips is LSU’s 16th blue-chip recruit of the class, which ties Ohio State for most in the country.

As far as average recruit rating goes, LSU ranks third, too. Oregon leads the country with an average rating of 92.79, followed by Ohio State at 92.28 and LSU at 91.76.

Flipping Phillips was the second Texas flip of the cycle for LSU. Earlier this summer, the Tigers managed to swing four-star defensive tackle [autotag]Brandon Brown[/autotag].

LSU recruiting is on a roll right now and the Phillips addition keeps LSU in the race for the top overall class. The Tigers are still chasing some of the nation’s top prospects with safety [autotag]Jonah Williams[/autotag] and wide receiver [autotag]Jaime Ffrench[/autotag] still on the board.

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LSU lands 3-star defensive tackle in 2025 recruiting class

On Monday, Brian Kelly and his recruiting staff landed another commitment in the 2025 recruiting class.

On Monday, [autotag]Brian Kelly[/autotag] and his recruiting staff landed another commitment in the 2025 recruiting class when the Tigers picked up a three-star defensive tackle from Arlington, Texas.

[autotag]Dilan Battle[/autotag] is a 6-foot-3, 300-pound, three-star defensive tackle from Arlington, where he plays for Mansfield Timberview High School. The Tigers were not projected to land him. SMU was a 24% favorite to land him per On3’s recruiting prediction machine.

Battle becomes the third defensive lineman to commit to the Tigers in the 2025 class, joining fellow three-stars [autotag]Brandon Brown[/autotag] and [autotag]Zion Williams[/autotag]. The Tigers 2025 class is ranked No. 3 in the country according to 247Sports.

The class is headlined by five-stars [autotag]Bryce Underwood[/autotag], [autotag]DJ Pickett[/autotag], [autotag]Derek Meadows[/autotag] and [autotag]Harlem Berry[/autotag]. Brian Kelly has signed a top-10 class every year since he arrived in Baton Rouge. This class looks like it could be his greatest work yet. There is still a long time before the early signing period, and the Tigers are not done yet.

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