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You are here: Home / Daily News / Browns Announce Additions And Changes To Player Personnel Staff

Browns Announce Additions And Changes To Player Personnel Staff

By Rocco Nuosci May 29, 2020 @Noush9602

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On Friday, Cleveland Browns General Manager and EVP of Football Operations Andrew Berry made some changes to his front office and player personnel staff.

Per the official team website, these are the new changes and additions.

 

New Additions

 

  1. Kwesi Adofo-Mensah – VP Football Operations
  2. Ryan Grigson – Senior Football Advisor
  3. Charles Walls -National Scout
  4. Josh Cox – Northwest Area Scout
  5. Nate Sterken – Lead Data Scientist
  6. Andrew Jackson – Data Architect / Systems Developer
  7. Kevin Lewis – Software Developer

 

Staff Promotions

 

  1. Glenn Cook – VP of Player Personnel
  2. Ken Kovash – VP of Player Personnel Process & Development
  3. Andrew Healy – VP of Research & Strategy
  4. Dan Saganey – Director of Player Personnel
  5. Dave Giuliani – Director Research & Strategy
  6. Mike Cetta – Director of Scouting Research
  7. Adam Al-Khayyal – Assistant Director of Pro Personnel
  8. Tyler Hamblin – Football Operations Coordinator
  9. Zach Wigmore – Scouting Research Coordinator
  10. Megan Rock – Player Personnel Coordinator
  11. Shaun Herock – National Scout
  12. Colton Chapple – Southeast Area Scout
  13. Dan Zegers – Midwest Area Scout
  14. Jimmy Noel – Northeast Area Scout
  15. Branden Francis – Pro Scout
  16. Rod Streater – Scouting Assistant
  17. Joe Dever – Scouting Assistant
  18. Debra Kruszynski – Executive Assistant Player Personnel/Coaching
  19. Bradley DeAngelis – Director Football Information Systems
  20. Zach Zelinsky – Senior Software Developer

Valued Input

 

One main focus for Berry while putting together his staff has been bringing in smart people.

However, he also wants to make sure each member brings a unique viewpoint to the table.

“I am excited because I think we have brought a lot of smart, talented people and put them in key roles. But also, everyone is not a carbon copy of one another – they bring different perspectives, different experiences, different viewpoints and that is what is going to push us to better decision making. We really are going to consider all the different perspectives and value them. That was a specific aiming point because I think that just helps us to be a better higher quality football operation. I think that is something that we took big strides in accomplishing this month.”

Considering some of the problems that resided with the previous regime, this approach from Berry is a welcomed one in Cleveland.

 

VP of Football Operations

 

Kwesi Adofo-Mensah comes from the San Francisco 49ers organization.

He spent the last seven seasons in the Bay Area and served in a number of roles, most recently as Director of Football Research and Development.

In addition to assisting Berry with roster strategy, he will be heavily involved with other day-to-day operations.

Per the Browns website, he seems excited to make an impact in northeast Ohio.

“Having been at the 49ers for a long time and especially these last few years, you see the benefits of working in an aligned culture. What Cleveland has been building for the last few years to this point of a completely aligned culture, I was really excited to come join that. Winning in a place like this would be something incredible where people care. They care about football on Sundays entirely on a level that’s just inspiring. To come to a place and potentially be able to win, it was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.”

Adofo-Mensah played collegiate basketball at Princeton and also has two separate economics degrees.

By the way, newly hired Browns VP/football ops Kwesi Adofo-Mensah has an A.B. in economics from Princeton and an M.A. in economics from Stanford. In other words, a scheme fit for new Browns front office.

— Tony Grossi (@TonyGrossi) May 15, 2020

Overview

 

A few things stand out from this group, starting with Ryan Grigson.

He has spent the last few months in Cleveland after spending two seasons in Seattle as a Senior Personnel Consultant.

Ties between Grigson and Berry go back to Ryan’s days in Indianapolis as the Colts General Manager.

Berry became a Pro Scouting Coordinator for the organization in 2012, the same year Grigson took over as GM.

Grigson experienced success in both Indianapolis and Seattle as his teams made postseason appearances in seven out of nine seasons between the two.

Here’s Berry on the hire per the team’s website.

“We obviously have a long-time relationship. He was one of the first people to make a significant bet on me early in my career. That is not the reason that he is here,” Berry said, “He is here because I think he is very good.”

There is one knock on Grigson, however, that involves a past deal involving a former first round draft pick.

#Browns named former #Colts GM Ryan Grigson as Senior Football Advisor.

The same person they managed to trick into trading a 1st round pick for Trent Richardson a few years ago. https://t.co/nQeJmzNJDw

— Dov Kleiman (@NFL_DovKleiman) May 29, 2020

Glenn Cook is another guy that Berry is extremely fond of in terms of his evaluation skills.

He was hired as the team’s Assistant Director of Scouting back in 2016 and also spent time with the Colts back in 2011.

Glenn Cook appeared to take on a bigger role for the Browns this offseason as Andrew Berry's right hand man. As such, his promotion makes a lot of sense.

— Brent Sobleski (@brentsobleski) May 28, 2020

Andrew Healy is another guy who has been with the team since 2016 and was previously a collegiate economics professor.

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Filed Under: Daily NewsTagged With: Andrew Berry

About Rocco Nuosci

I have been in broadcast media for the last 6 years and have a passion for creating quality, attention-grabbing content. I have worked as a sports talk show host as well as a producer at 1590 WAKR AM in Akron, OH, for the past 2 years. Prior to that, I was Sports Director of WZIP at The University of Akron and was responsible for all content from the sports department, including both video for the website as well as on-air audio. I am also a part of the video and gameday production team for the Akron Rubberducks Baseball Club

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