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Giants’ Brandon Brown attending NFL’s front office accelerator program

New York Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown will attend the NFL’s front office accelerator and diversity program on Tuesday and Wednesday.

New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown will be the franchise’s candidate at this week’s Front Office Accelerator Diversity Initiative taking place in Dallas on December 13-14.

In an “effort to continue to increase executive diversity,” each NFL team is sending a candidate to the conference “as part of the NFL’s ongoing commitment to promote greater diversity across the NFL.”

The Front Office Accelerator will provide rising people of color and women front office prospects with the opportunity to strengthen relationships with club ownership and executives. Additionally, the League has curated content sessions with football operations experts and business and academic leaders to further drive participants’ success in future front-office opportunities.

“Club owners and executives are focused on building on the successful momentum of our Coach and Front Office Accelerator Program by continuing to engage with and develop this group of talented men and women,” said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell.

“The goal of our Accelerator Program is to foster relationships between owners and potential candidates for front office positions,” said Steelers President Art Rooney, II, the chairman of the NFL Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.  “Both the clubs and the Accelerator participants understand the importance of the exposure, professional development and networking opportunities of the Accelerator.”

The conference will be led by management counsel director Kevin Boothe, a former Giants offensive lineman who was a member of two Super Bowl championship teams. Boothe is a 2005 graduate of Cornell University who earned an MBA from George Washington University in 2013.

Brandon Brown, 33, is in his first season as general manager Joe Schoen’s assistant after coming over from the Philadelphia Eagles’ front office this past offseason.

Brown interviewed for the Minnesota Vikings GM position before taking the assistant role in New York. He is expected to draw further interest this coming offseason.

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Giants’ Brandon Brown named one of NFL’s rising executives

New York Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown has been named one of the NFL’s top 40 executives under 40 years old.

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The Athletic released their annual list of the “NFL 40 under 40” on Monday, which focuses on ascending league executives, agents and coaches.

Sitting near the top of the list was New York Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown, who is just 33 years old.

Brown played college football at Fordham, but before pursuing a job in scouting or other areas of pro football, he decided to go to law school.

“I knew I never wanted to be in a courtroom or anything of that nature on the job working in law, but I wanted the soft skills that came with it: the public speaking, the critical thinking, high-level analysis, all the things that are applicable in the day-to-day job of being an NFL executive,” Brown told The Athletic this spring.

He earned his JD at Barry University in 2013 and landed his first job in the NFL as a scout for the Colts in 2015. He went on to spend five years with the Eagles before new Giants general manager Joe Schoen hired Brown to be his assistant general manager earlier this year.

In his new role, Brown is involved in all aspects of the Giants’ personnel department, from pro personnel to draft preparation to contracts and cap management.

Brown was hired by general manager Joe Schoen earlier this year to replace Kevin Abrams, who was moved into the role of senior vice president of football operations and strategy.

While no other Giants executive, scout or coach made the list, retired Big Blue offensive lineman Kevin Boothe, who now works with the league office, did.

Boothe played nine seasons in the NFL, two with the Raiders and seven with the Giants, where he was part of two Super Bowl championship teams.

He joined the league office in 2016 and worked in sponsorships, football operations and football development before moving into his current role earlier this year. Boothe primarily works with football operations and player personnel departments to make sure teams are in compliance with all aspects of the NFL’s collective bargaining agreement and are operating within the league’s bylaws.

Boothe was one of three league office employees to participate in this year’s NFL Accelerator program.

The 38-year-old Boothe was a sixth-round pick of the Raiders in the 2006 NFL draft. He spent seven years with the Giants from 2007-2013 and remains beloved around the organization.

Both Brown and Boothe have extremely bright futures with the former likely to generate significant GM interest as early as 2023.

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Giants greats impressed with team’s 2022 NFL draft results

Several retired New York Giants greats are quite optimistic after the team’s selections of Kayvon Thibodeaux and Evan Neal.

When the New York Giants selected Kayvon Thibodeaux and Evan Neal with their two top-7 picks in the 2022 NFL draft, most were thrilled with the direction Big Blue went.

Neal, in particular, addressed an issue that has been a problem for a number of years now. The Giants’ hope is that with the core of Andrew Thomas (2020 4th overall pick) and Neal, they begin to move in the right direction and see an immediate improvement along the offensive.

Neal and Thibodeaux have been the talk around town ever since they were drafted a little over a month ago.

Last week, Tom Coughlin’s Jay Fund hosted a number of kids and their families who are dealing with childhood cancer for their Sundae Blitz event at MetLife Stadium. Among those who were in attendance were some former Giants who took time to talk with Giants Wire to talk about the event and more.

They were asked about the Giants most recent draft and if the Giants were finally heading in the right direction.