At least three finalists have emerged for the Bears GM gig. According to NFL Network’s Ian Rapoport (via Twitter), the organization has requested second interviews with Titans director of player personnel Monti Ossenfort and Patriots senior consultant Eliot Wolf. We previously learned that Chiefs director of player personnel Ryan Poles would also be getting a second interview. Colts director of college scouting Morocco Brown could also be a candidate for a second interview, per Rapoport.
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Ossenfort has been the director of player personnel in Tennessee for the past two years. Prior to the Titans, he spent 17 seasons in the Patriots’ organization, acting as the director of college scouting in his last six years in New England.
Wolf started off as a pro personnel assistant in 2004 with the Packers, where his father, Ron Wolf, served as general manager. In eight years with the team, Eliot worked his way into the director of pro personnel role, which he held for three years. In his last two seasons in Green Bay, he spent time in the roles of director of player personnel and director of football operations. He left Wisconsin for the assistant general manager position in Cleveland before taking his current position as a senior consultant in New England.
Brown had a seven-year stint as the Bears assistant director of pro personnel. He’s served as a top executive in Indy for the past five years, with Brown earning credit for his draft evaluation. He interviewed for the Falcons GM gig last offseason.
After the Nagy mess it would be easy to diss going back to the KC well, but this is not a coaching decision. Anyone who’s played as major a role in assembling that roster as Poles has, makes a lot of sense to me.
Poles, Brown, Ossenfort all good by me.
Don’t trust Wolf. Was passed up by GB, did so-so in Cleveland. Feels like a lot is placed on his last name.
I am fine with any of the 4 rumored finalists, even Elliot Wolf. He has been highly thought around the NFL since he was in Green Bay and it’s not just because of his last name. I have the feeling it’s going to come down between Ryan Poles and Morocco Brown , with Poles getting the nod in the end.
eliot wolf still scratching that face 4 years later