For the first time in twenty-four years, the New England Patriots are searching for a general manager. Prior to him and team owner Robert Kraft taking over, head coach Bill Belichick held the position.
Trey Brown, the senior personnel officer with the Cincinnati Bengals, is one individual who isn’t in the race for the position. According to Tom Pelissero of the NFL Network, Brown turned down an invitation to interview for the position.
One day after firing Belichick, the Patriots announced the hiring of former linebacker Jerod Mayo as their new head coach.
Pelissero said on his X account, “#Bengals senior personnel executive Trey Brown has declined a request to interview for the #Patriots de facto GM position, per source.” “Brown will be one of the top GM contenders in the upcoming cycle.”
Brown and the Patriots go back a long way. He began his NFL career in 2010 with the scouting department of New England, where he remained from 2010 to 2012. When the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Patriots in Super Bowl LII after the 2017 season, Brown was the team’s director of college scouting.
Since 2021, Brown has been a member of the Bengals.
Brown Has Created Teams From The Ground Up
As a football boss, Brown has a unique background because he created a whole professional squad from the ground up. Two times.
After the 2018 season, Brown departed from the Eagles to take a position as executive vice president of football operations for the Birmingham Iron of the Alliance of American Football (the AAF disbanded after one season).
Before the league filed for bankruptcy and the pandemic forced the league to suspend play in the spring of 2020, Brown served as the director of player personnel for the St. Louis BattleHawks of the XFL.
“I believe that this gave me the chance to work with amazing people and experience things that you probably wouldn’t get a chance to do or gain experience in the NFL because those general manager positions you mentioned, when you walk into those positions, there are players on the roster, guys who are under contract,” Brown said in reference to the Iron in 2019 to NFL.com’s Herbie Teope. “There were no players on the roster when we took this thing in December, so you’re starting from scratch, which is
Interviews for Previous NFL General Manager Positions
Kansas native Brown was a second-team Associated Press All-American cornerback in 2007 while playing collegiate football for UCLA. He played one season with the UFL’s New York Sentinels in 2009 before signing as an undrafted free agent with the Chicago Bears in 2008.
Three times previously, in 2017 with the Buffalo Bills and twice in 2018 and 2022 with the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders, Brown had interviews for general manager positions in the NFL.
Brown has a long history with the NFL. In the latter rounds of the 1979 NFL Draft, the St. Louis Cardinals selected his father, Theotis Brown II, a star running back at UCLA in the late 1970s.
Theotis suffered a heart attack in 1984 while playing for the Kansas City Chiefs, ending his playing career. He later joined the team’s community relations and ticket sales staff, occasionally bringing his kid along.
Brown has a long history with the NFL. In the latter rounds of the 1979 NFL Draft, the St. Louis Cardinals selected his father, Theotis Brown II, a star running back at UCLA in the late 1970s.
Theotis suffered a heart attack in 1984 while playing for the Kansas City Chiefs, ending his playing career. He later joined the team’s community relations and ticket sales staff, occasionally bringing his kid along.
