CHARLOTTE – The Panthers are two days into the search for a new general manager, and the process is moving fast through a wide group of candidates.
The Panthers interviewed four other candidates on Tuesday, including Patriots director Nick Caserio, Bill GM Joe Schoen, Titans director Monti Ossenfort, and Saints assistant GM and Jeff Scouting director .
Together with the interviews of Browns, Vice President of Football Operations Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and former Giants GM, Jerry Reese, they compiled a diverse list of candidates.
So far, they have talked to candidates with long resumes, and unconventional, and everything in between.
The 57-year-old Reese helped the Giants win a pair of Super Bowls as GM, while the 39-year-old Adofo-Mensah was a former Wall Street dealer in Princeton and Stanford, bringing a new perspective in time when owner David Tepper spoke about modernizing the football industry.
Tuesday’s interviews had an important atmosphere in New England, as Caserio was Bill Belichick’s top lieutenant, and Ossenfort spent 15 years there before joining a group of expats (and former Pats) in Tennessee last season. .
The other two have commitments here, as Ireland are a former Baylor player (though not when Matt Rhule, head coach, was there), and Schoen began his NFL trip as a reconnaissance intern with the Panthers before ascending the ranks. has.
The Panthers have moved fast in the past as Rhule was hired on January 7, 2020, a week after the end of the 2019 season.
Here is a profile of the six candidates who have been interviewed so far, in alphabetical order: