The Bills announced four promotions in their scouting department last week. Alonzo Dotson was elevated from college scout to assistant director of college scouting, Tyler Pratt was promoted from southeast area scout to national scout, former scouting assistant Kellyn Gerenstein was named the team’s new BLESTO scout, and Gardner Temkin filled Gerenstein’s vacated scouting assistant role.
Dotson joined the team in 2022 as a college scout and worked his way up after four years. Pratt arrived in Buffalo in 2016, working internships with broadcasting and player personnel/football operations before being named player personnel coordinator in 2018. He was promoted to west coast scout after three years and worked the southeast area for the past four years. After recruiting roles at Ohio State and Boston College and a scouting internship with the 49ers, Gerenstein landed in Buffalo as a scouting assistant in 2024. Temkin has been working a scouting internship over the past year.
Here are a few other staff updates from around the NFL:
- The Cowboys have announced a few promotions in their analytics department over the last couple weeks. ESPN’s Seth Walder pointed out today that, in an flyer advertising the Black Sports Business Symposium, Cowboys director of strategic football operations John Park revealed that his new title with the team is Vice President, Football Strategy & Operations. Neil Stratton of SucceedinFootball.com reports that Piper Hampsch has been elevated from senior strategic football fellow to strategic football analyst, and Walder followed that report up a few days later to report that fellow strategic football fellow Shane Hauck had been promoted to data scientist.
- In coaching, a little over a month after it was announced that Chiefs cornerbacks coach David Merritt‘s domestic battery case had been dismissed, Mike Garafolo of NFL Network reports that Merritt will face no punishment from the league. The NFL concluded its investigation, per Garafolo, and “found insufficient evidence of a violation of the personal conduct policy.”