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Buccaneers general manager Jason Licht announced a litany of promotions and new titles in the front office and scouting department this weekend, according ....
Vikings Lose Kelly Kleine to Broncos, Promote Three Women in Front Office Kleine is believed to be the highest ranking woman in scouting in NFL history. Author: Kleine is believed to be the highest ranking woman in scouting in NFL history. In a historic move on Monday, George Paton and the Denver Broncos hired longtime Vikings staffer Kelly Kleine to be their Executive Director of Football Operations/Special Advisor to the GM. Kleine is believed to be the highest ranking woman in scouting in NFL history. Kleine arrived in Minnesota a decade ago as a PR intern, quickly got her foot in the door on the scouting side, and worked her way up the ladder through talent and dedication. She most recently was the team s Manager of Player Personnel in addition to being a college scout in the midwest. Kleine is now reunited with Paton, who had been with the Vikings for 15 years prior to being hired as Denver s GM this offseason. ....
May 17, 2021 Veterans are hitting the field now, and that’s where we’ll start this week’s column … Manny Millan/Sports Illustrated (Jordan); Douglas DeFelice/USA TODAY Sports (Armstead); Brad Mills/USA TODAY Sports (Kerrigan) • In my morning column, we took you through the latest in the NFL-NFLPA fight over the offseason program, and there was a quote in there where we had union president and Browns center J.C. Tretter explaining how, really, it’s not just now during the nine-week offseason program that players are exposed to risk working out under the NFI rules it’s the full run of the 29-week offseason. And in reaction to that, I had an agent who knows this stuff well point out to me how the NBA’s union got protection for its guys. It actually dates back decades, and links to the old “Love of the Game” clause that Michael Jordan had put in his Bulls contracts. The romanticized story was that it was in there so Jordan could crush people in pickup. ....