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Bills Announce Front Office Changes

May 30th, 2025 at 8:02pm CST by Ely Allen

Today, the Bills announced a number of promotions to their personnel and analytics staffs. While we’ve already covered a few of them, let’s go over the new information provided this morning.

So, we noted a week ago that the Bills had hired Mk Collins as player personnel coordinator, a role previously held by Andrea Gosper, because Gosper had reportedly been promoted, but at the time, we didn’t have any additional information on Gosper’s new role. Now, we know that Gosper has been promoted to assistant to the general manager.

Gosper got her start with the Bills after meeting general manager Brandon Beane and then-assistant general manager Joe Schoen at the 2019 NFL Scouting Combine. Thinking about going to grad school for sports nutrition at the time, she informed the two that she was interested in interning for them, if possible, and she later received a call from Schoen for a full-year role in the scouting department. Schoen’s leap of faith worked out as Gosper continues to climb the ladder in Buffalo.

Last year, R.J. Webb filled Keith Jennings‘ role as BLESTO college scout after Jennings was promoted to college area scout. A year later, Webb follows Jennings once again as he’s earned a promotion to a role as a college area scout covering the west coast. Webb started with the Bills in a scouting fellowship in 2018. His first full-time job was as player personnel coordinator before being elevated to pro scout. He held that role for four years before last year’s promotion. This time, Webb will be followed in the role of BLESTO college scout by Jay Hill. Hill formerly served in the role of scouting coordinator.

In the analytics department, Dennis Lock was promoted to vice president of football research, Luis Guilamo was promoted to senior director of application development, Warren Zorilla was promoted to assistant director of application development, and Santino Parlato was promoted to football analyst.

Lock has been with Buffalo for six years — three as director of football research & strategy and three as senior director of football research — after working for the division rival Dolphins for almost five years. Guilamo was part of the team’s initial push into analytics, joining the franchise in 2018 as director of analytics and application development. Zorilla was added shortly after Guilamo as senior developer. Parlato joined the team as a football research analyst last July.

The operations department saw a promotion, too, as Ryan Moore was named manager of football administration and operations. Moore started in Buffalo as a community relations graduate assistant for the team in 2017, serving time as community relations youth programs coordinator and COVID protocol coordinator on his way to joining the operations department as football administration & operations coordinator. He served in that role for the last three years.

AFC Front Office Updates: Bengals, Bills, Jets, Dolphins

May 23rd, 2025 at 10:10pm CST by Ely Allen

Last week, we noted that former Patriots southeast area scout Josh Hinch would not be returning to New England in 2025. Now we know why as Neil Stratton of SucceedinFootball.com reports that Hinch will be joining the Bengals in 2025.

It’s assumed that Hinch will be stepping into the role vacated when Christian Sarkisian departed to serve as the general manager at Northwestern University. Hinch spent some time with the XFL and AAF alternative football leagues before working with the Buccaneers in the NFL. He’s spent the last four years in New England’s scouting department.

Cincinnati will also add Tyler Ramsey as a scout, per Stratton. A Seattle native, Ramsey spent 12 seasons in the Seahawks’ scouting department, starting as a personnel intern and working his way through promotions to scouting assistant and area scout. He spent three years after with the Panthers, starting as a national scout before getting promoted to assistant director of pro personnel. Ramsey was let go by Carolina a little over a year ago.

Here are a few other front office updates, all coming out of the AFC East:

Stratton also noted that the Bills have hired Mk Collins as their new player personnel coordinator, citing the updated position on her LinkedIn page. After completing a training camp internship with the Rams in 2023, Collins served four months as the assistant director of recruiting and personnel at Cornell before joining North Carolina as a player personnel analyst and, eventually, a scouting assistant. Stratton tells us that the position was open because former player personnel coordinator Andrea Gosper has been promoted.
The Jets are bringing Bird Sherrill back to the NFL for a front office role, according to Graham Hall of 247Sports. Sherrill had previously spent six years with the Lions, starting as a scouting assistant before being promoted to a scout. Sherrill arrived in Gainesville alongside Billy Napier in 2022 and served as the Gators director of college personnel.
Lastly, the Dolphins have hired Rachael Kaplan as the team’s new football analytics staff assistant, per ESPN’s Seth Walder. Kaplan previously worked an internship with the Buccaneers. She entered a submission into this year’s NFL Big Data Bowl and earned an honorable mention in the competition.

AFC East Notes: Jets, Newton, Bills

June 5th, 2021 at 3:31pm CST by Sam Robinson

Although several veterans made a point to skip OTAs this year, Jamison Crowder is away from his team because of a contract issue. The Jets want their leading receiver of the past two seasons to accept a pay cut. Robert Saleh said the veteran slot receiver “definitely” has a role on the 2021 Jets, but SNY’s Ralph Vacchiano notes the pay reduction the Jets have in mind is “significant.” It would be interesting to see what the Jets do if Crowder balks, given their salary cap space (third-most in the NFL) and his potential value in helping Zach Wilson as a rookie. The 27-year-old wideout is due a $10MM base salary this season, which is the final year of his contract. GM Joe Douglas was not around when Crowder signed with the Jets, and the team used a second-round pick on presumptive Crowder slot successor Elijah Moore. The Ole Miss product stands to cut into Crowder’s workload this season, Vacchiano adds, so the Jets would appear to be comfortable moving on.

Crowder may end up hitting free agency at an inopportune time, should he not approve the team’s pay-cut request. If the Jets release Crowder, they would not incur any dead money. Here is the latest from the AFC East:

The hand injury Cam Newton suffered will end up impacting his offseason status. The Patriots quarterback is expected to miss time, Jeff Howe of The Athletic tweets. Given Newton’s extensive injury history, this would be notable even without Mac Jones‘ presence. But the prospect of Jones going through the rest of OTAs and minicamp with Newton sidelined figures to impact the Pats’ quarterback competition. New England’s minicamp is scheduled to run from June 14-16.
Staying on the quarterback subject, the Jets may need to consider an addition. Wilson’s two backups — 2020 fourth-round pick James Morgan and former UDFA Mike White — are not ready for a QB2 role, Connor Hughes of The Athletic writes (subscription required). The Jets, in Hughes’ view, need to acquire Nick Foles from the Bears. Douglas was with the Eagles during Foles’ memorable second Philadelphia stint, and Foles has become a nonfactor in Chicago. The Jets, however, are not planning any additional costly moves this year; Foles comes with an $8MM price tag. Foles-Jets buzz began brewing shortly after the Bears’ Justin Fields pick, however, and may continue if Morgan and White prove unqualified at Gang Green’s minicamp.
The Bills will rely on a group effort to replace Dan Morgan, who left his VP of player personnel gig in Buffalo to become Carolina’s assistant GM. Terrance Gray, Malik Boyd and ex-Texans GM Brian Gaine will split Morgan’s duties, according to Brandon Beane (via Maddy Glab of BuffaloBills.com). The Bills interviewed both Gray and Boyd and promoted each. Gray will rise from college scouting director to assistant director of player personnel; Boyd will shift from pro personnel director to senior director of pro scouting. Gaine remains in his senior personnel advisor role. Boyd interviewed for the Texans’ GM job earlier this year.
Buffalo also hired Princeton quality control coach Sophia Lewin as an offensive assistant, according to NFL senior director of diversity, equity and inclusion Sam Rapoport (Twitter link). Lewin and Andrea Gosper, who will rise from Bills scouting intern to player personnel coordinator for the team, caught on with the Bills through the NFL’s Women’s Careers in Football Forum.