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Report: Eagles to hire Browns scout Charles Walls as Director of Player Personnel

The Philadelphia Eagles are set to hire Cleveland Browns national scout Charles Walls as the teams’ new Director of Player Personnel

The Eagles have worked to diligently restructure their scouting departments and front office this spring after several staff departures.

The first positive domino has fallen, as Kimberly A. Martin reports that Philadelphia is hiring Cleveland Browns national scout, Charles Walls to the position of Director of Player Personnel.

Walls would be filling the role previously held by Brandon Brown and Ian Cunningham.

Before joining the Browns, Walls had been the Southwest region scout for Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst since 2017 after working his way up in the scouting department since joining the organization as an intern in 2013.

During Walls tenure with the Packers, Green Bay landed Pro Bowl running back Aaron Jones (Texas El-Paso), Jace Sternberger (Texas A&M), Kingsley Keke (Texas A&M), and Ty Summers (TCU) out of the Southwest region and Walls also played a role in drafting Elgton Jenkins (Mississippi State), undrafted linebackers Curtis Bolton (Oklahoma) and Randy Ramsey (Arkansas).

Before working in the Southwest region Walls was the Packers’ National Football Scouting representative for the NFL scouting combine.

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Browns hire Eagles VP of football operations Catherine Raîche to a high-ranking position

Cleveland Browns hire Philadelphia Eagles VP of football operations Catherine Raîche to a high-ranking position with assistant GM-like duties

Howie Roseman’s spring of discontent continued on Tuesday, as another key Eagles front-office staffer is moving on to a better opportunity.

Catherine Raîche was already the highest-ranking female in a football executive position in the NFL as the Eagles’ VP of football operations is heading to Cleveland to reunite with Andrew Berry and the Browns.

Berry worked with Raîche with the Eagles and has now hired Raiche “for an undisclosed high-ranking position” where she is now essentially the Browns’ assistant General Manager according to Jori Epstein.

Brandon Brown and Ian Cunningham have previously accepted front office roles with the Giants and Bears doing increased roles.

Raiche replaced Berry in Philadelphia after he accepted the Browns GM position.

Eagles’ Howie Roseman not pleased with losing Brandon Brown to Giants

Losing Brandon Brown to the New York Giants did not sit well with Philadelphia Eagles general manager Howie Roseman.

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One way NFL teams can better their lot is by poaching away talent from other franchises, especially from the franchises in their own division.

Over the years, it’s happened to New York Giants and now they are beginning to fight back. This past offseason, they managed to pry Brandon Brown — a rising star in their front office — away to become new general manager Joe Schoen’s assistant.

The 33-year-old Brown was hired by the rival Philadelphia Eagles in 2017 as an assistant director of pro scouting. He was promoted to the director of pro scouting in 2019 and then ascended to the title of director of player personnel in 2021.

The Giants’ hiring of Brown did not sit well with Philly general manager Howie Roseman, reports Dan Duggan of The Athletic.

Roseman didn’t want to lose director of player personnel Brandon Brown and particularly didn’t want to lose Brown to the Giants. And Roseman really didn’t want to lose Brown to the Giants just before free agency and the draft.

But Roseman couldn’t stop Brown from departing because he was hired as the Giants’ assistant general manager. That position is viewed as a promotion from other front-office roles, so teams can’t block those moves.

It is unusual for this type of hire to happen before the NFL draft in April. Brown is now in the unique position to help the Giants in multiple ways. He will provide his insight on personnel for his new team while instead of his old one who were also relying on his expertise.

Brown will also give the Giants some intel on what the Eagles are thinking this spring.

“It’s hard for me because you see these guys and they have an opportunity to kind of help themselves and their families,” Roseman said. “But at the same time, it doesn’t really help the Eagles. Especially the timing of this, which I think it’s something maybe that we have to talk about going forward, about losing guys during this draft process, especially in your conference, one in your division. That’s not ideal.”

The new structure here with the Giants appears to be on solid footing after years of Dave Gettleman’s mismanagement.

Plus, ticking the Eagles off is always an added bonus.

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Giants announce hiring of Brandon Brown as assistant GM

The Giants have made the hiring of assistant GM Brandon Brown official, while also revealing that co-director of player personnel Mark Koncz would not be retained.

The New York Giants have made the hiring of former Philadelphia Eagles director of player personnel Brandon Brown as their new assistant general manager official.

In a statement from general manager Joe Shoen, he praised Brown, who he says “has a strong reputation around the league as a leader, evaluator and consensus builder.”

“Brandon has a strong reputation around the league as a leader, evaluator and consensus builder,” said Schoen. “He is a tireless worker who has experience in pro personnel and college scouting. He has a progressive approach to the evaluation process. Brandon will help lead the player personnel department as well as assist across the entire football operation.”

The 33-year-old assistant general manager spent the last five seasons with the Eagles and worked his way up to director of player personnel in 2021. He will now be tasked with aiding in righting the ship in East Rutherford.

In addition to announcing the hiring of Brown, the Giants also revealed they would not be retaining co-director of player personnel Mark Koncz, who had been with the team since 2018.

As the Giants continue to put together their new regime, the team still has some positions to fill, including at defensive coordinator. New York has already interviewed several candidates for the position.

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Giants hiring Eagles’ Brandon Brown as their next assistant GM

The Giants are hiring Eagles director of player personnel Brandon Brown as their next assistant GM.

New York Giants general manager Joe Schoen is going to have a new second in command working under him for the 2022 season.

According to ESPN’s Adam Schefter, the Giants are set to hire Philadelphia Eagles director of player personnel, Brandon Brown, as their next assistant general manager.

Brown will replace Kevin Abrams, who was the long-time Giants assistant general manager for 20 years. Abrams is being retained by the Giants, but will likely take on another role in the organization in 2022.

Prior to taking the Giants assistant general manager job, Brown interviewed for the Minnesota Vikings general manager position, which eventually went to Kwesi Adofo-Mensah.

Brown has been in the NFL for the last seven years, five of which were with the Eagles. He was promoted to director of player personnel in 2021. Prior to that, he was the team’s director of pro scouting from 2019-2020, and before then he was the assistant director of pro scouting from 2017-2018.

Prior to that, Brown was with the Indianapolis Colts as a scouting assistant in 2015 and an advanced scout in 2016.

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Giants to hire Eagles’ director of player personnel Brandon Brown as new assistant GM

The raiding of #FlyEaglesFly front office personnel continues as the #Giants are hiring #Eagles director of player personnel Brandon Brown as their Assistant GM under Joe #Schoen #TogetherBlue

The NFC East is about to get extremely competitive over the next few years and the New York Giants appear to be a team watch.

After hiring Joe Schoen away from the Bills, Brian Daboll was named head coach, and then the Giants just added to the Eagles front office purge, following the Bears route, and hiring away a director of player personnel.

This time it was the multi-talented Brandon Brown.

Brown just finished his fifth season with Philadelphia and seventh overall in the NFL. He was recently promoted to director of player personnel during the 2021 offseason.

In his new role, Brown oversaw the Eagles’ pro scouting department while also working closely on the college scouting side in collaboration with then co-director of player personnel Ian Cunningham.

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Brandon Brown and NASCAR’s denial of sponsorship based on ‘Let’s go, Brandon’ chant, explained

Brandon Brown and his team are in the middle of a mess with NASCAR over his “Let’s go, Brandon”-themed sponsor.

Welcome to FTW Explains, a guide to catching up on and better understanding stuff going on in the world. We’re here to help explain the “Let’s go, Brandon” chants, how they started in NASCAR and how it led to a sponsorship debacle within the sport.

By now, you’ve probably heard about the “Let’s go, Brandon” chants, the phrase with the not-so-secret real meaning of “[Expletive] Joe Biden.” Maybe you heard it originated in NASCAR following a Talladega Superspeedway in October, or that the driver and team involved, Brandon Brown and Brandonbilt Motorsports, recently attempted but failed to capitalize on that phrase with a related sponsorship.

And maybe you’re still a little confused about what on earth is going on. That’s OK because we’re here to break it down.

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GM candidates the Giants could consider if they fire Dave Gettleman

With the New York Giants likely to part ways with general manager Dave Gettleman, here are several potential options to replace him.

The New York Giants are likely to move on from general manager Dave Gettleman following the season. Whether he’s fired or retires remains to be seen but either way, Big Blue will be thrust into another GM search.

If the Giants are firm in their commitment to head coach Joe Judge, that may thin out their pool of options. It may also strengthen the likelihood of landing a new GM that has previous ties to Judge.

Is that good or bad? We’ll let you decide.

With a GM swap all but a certainty, here’s a look at several potential options who could replace Gettleman in 2022 and beyond.