The Titans were named as a potential team to watch regarding a front office move, and that proved to be the case on Tuesday. General manager Ran Carthon was fired after two seasons in that role.
As a result, the Titans join the Jets as teams in need of a new GM. Tennessee will lean on president of football operations Chad Brinker to lead the search, and he will have a central role in roster-related decisions moving forward. Other members of the front office staff are also out.
Four staffers have been fired in addition to Carthon, as noted by veteran reporter Paul Kuharsky. The list includes assistant general manager Anthony Robinson, who like Carthon was in place for two years. Robinson was tapped for an AGM role alongside Brinker in May 2023, bringing an end to his time with the Falcons. He joined Atlanta’s staff as a full-time scout in 2011, working his way up to the post of college scouting director in 2019.
Robinson’s stock continued to rise, and in 2021 he interviewed for Atlanta’s general manager position. The Falcons ultimately went with Terry Fontenot, though, which helped explain Robinson’s decision to head elsewhere in relatively short order. After a brief run in Nashville, however, he will once again find himself on the move. It will be interesting to see if he generates interest from the Jets for their GM positing or if he lands another position in a different front office.
As Kuharsky notes, vice president of team operations Brent Akers as well as VP of football technology Anthony Pastrana have also been dismissed. Their respective tenures with the franchise date back to the late 1990s, so their absences will be notable. In addition, senior security director John Albertson has been fired.
Prior to the news of those dismissals, Bovada’s Josina Anderson reported the Titans were expected to add to their personnel department. That will of course be the case now, and Brinker (in tandem with the new general manager, once that hire is made) will have several positions to fill this offseason.