The University of Wisconsin is hiring former Colts executive Morocco Brown as the general manager of their football program, per ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
Brown arrived in Indianapolis in 2017 as the director of college scouting in GM Chris Ballard’s inaugural front office. He was promoted to chief personnel executive in 2022 and played a key role in the Colts’ scouting and selection of quarterback Anthony Richardson with the No. 4 pick in the 2023 draft. He and the team parted ways in June 2025. That was his second stint in Indianapolis; he first broke into the NFL as a Colts scouting intern in the 2000 offseason.
Brown then held a similar position with the Commanders for the 2000 season before landing the Bears’ assistant director of player personnel job. After seven years in Chicago, he returned to the Commanders as their director of pro personnel. In 2014, he moved to Cleveland as the Browns’ vice president of player personnel, the team’s No. 2 front office role under GM Andrew Berry.
A number of teams have considered Brown for a general manager position. He interviewed with the Falcons in 2021 and the Bears and Steelers in 2022. He was also connected to the Eagles’ job that eventually went to Howie Roseman.
Since leaving the Colts, Brown has worked as a consultant, per his website, with former NFL receiver Brandon Marshall‘s House of Athletes gym listed among his clients.
At Wisconsin, Brown will take on a college football landscape that has radically changed in the last few years with the introduce of NIL money for student athletes. He will be tasked with turning around a Badgers team that has a 9-15 record across the last two years with a 5-13 mark in Big Ten play. They have not won the conference since 2012, the last of a three-year streak including Russell Wilson‘s final college season in 2011.