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Titans Make Front Office Changes

June 21st, 2025 at 5:22pm CST by Ely Allen

Earlier this month, the Titans announced several changes to their front office staff. The team’s senior writer/editor Jim Wyatt detailed a number of promotions and new hires that pertain to the areas of staff that we cover.

To start, we already reported on Tennessee’s hiring of former Pitt director of college scouting Alex Kline, but at that time, we were unaware of what role on staff he would end up playing. Wyatt tells us that Kline will serve the Titans as a scouting assistant in 2025. He’ll be joined in the position with fellow new hire Geo Leins. Leins also originally came out of college with recruiting roles at Campbell, UCLA, Wake Forest, and NC State. He debuted in the NFL in 2023 as a scouting assistant with the Dolphins but heads now to Nashville.

The only other new hire in the scouting department is Jack Turner. After operations internships with Wake Forest and the Chiefs, Turner found an operations job at Davidson College. He left for a recruiting internship, again with the Demon Deacons, before getting a recruiting analyst job at Michigan. He’ll work his first full-time job in the NFL as an NFS scout for the Titans.

The scouting department also saw five promotions with Tennessee elevating Jon Salge to director of player personnel, Kevin Turks to director of pro personnel, Mike Boni to assistant director of college scouting, Kalan Reed to college scout, and Keenan Agnew to pro scout.

Salge is entering his 20th season with the Titans. Starting with the team as a scouting assistant, he’s worked his way up through the ranks as a college scout before eventually being named director of college scouting, a role he’s held for the past eight seasons. Turks joined the team in 2015 as a pro scout following time in Chicago as a scout and director of pro personnel. He was promoted after three years to assistant director of pro personnel in Tennessee and was invited to participate in the league’s Front Office & General Manager Accelerator program in 2023.

Boni, like Salge, also has 19 years of NFL experience but only has eight with the Titans. After coaching attempts at the high school and Division III college levels, Boni turned to scouting in 2006 spending a year as pro personnel administrator and a year as college scouting administrator with the Bills. In 2008, Boni departed for Arizona, working as an NFS scout to start for two years before seven as an east area scout. He started with the Titans in 2018 as a college scout before moving up to national scout in 2019, a role he held for five years before being named senior national scout last year.

Reed is a former cornerback whom the Titans actually made Mr. Irrelevant in 2016. A career-ending neck injury brought his playing career to a close, but in 2023, he joined the team that drafted him as a personnel scout after an NFL Legends fellowship. Agnew joined the team last year as a scouting assistant following the conclusion of his playing career at Southern Illinois. He’s the son of Lions assistant general manager Ray Agnew and the brother of Jets pro scout Ray Agnew III.

Lastly, the analytics department also saw two promotions as Rob Riederer was named director of game management & strategic initiatives and Erin Psajdl Davis was named football research & development coordinator.

After his collegiate playing career, Riederer started with the Titans as a scouting assistant, working his way up to pro scouting coordinator at one point. Last year saw a shift in focus as Riederer was named assistant director of football strategy. His newfound career in analytics has paid off with this promotion. Psajdl Davis joined the team last year as a data analyst. She started in the NFL in the same role with the Texans for two years before spending the 2023 season as a data scientist with the Chiefs. Unlike her first two position changes, this move up will keep Psajdl Davis with the same team.

Front Office Notes: Hinkie, Packers, Titans

May 25th, 2018 at 12:04pm CST by Sam Robinson

Sam Hinkie developed an interesting reputation in the NBA, taking a unique path toward rebuilding the Philadelphia 76ers during his run as their GM. He set them on their current course via historic tanking over a years-long endeavor dubbed “The Process” — one that led to the team making several lottery picks, two of those becoming Joel Embiid and Ben Simmons. Although Hinkie stepped down from his post in 2016, his work looks much better after those two prospects became stars and spearheaded Philly into the playoffs this season. And an NFL team took the time to pick his brain this week. Nicki Jhabvala of The Athletic reports (subscription required) the Broncos brought in the 40-year-old executive for an analytics powwow. Hinkie spoke to the Broncos’ analytics department, as well as members of their scouting branch, football administration and conditioning staffs this week, per Jhabvala, on how to best use the data teams are now collecting.

Here’s the latest from some front offices around the league.

  • Green Bay will go with a two-man setup in a key role under GM Brian Gutekunst. Jon-Eric Sullivan and John Wojciechowski will rise to the roles of co-player personnel directors for the Packers, the team announced. Sullivan previously operated as the Packers’ director of college scouting, doing so for two seasons, while Wojchichowski was the team’s pro personnel director in 2017.
  • Gutekunst also made some adjustments to the team’s scouting staff. Matt Malaspina will rise to Sullivan’s old job. A 20-plus-year NFL veteran, Malaspina was hired as a Packers college scout in 2017. The Packers promoted Sam Seale to a national scouting role after he spent time working primarily as a west region scout, per PackersNews.com. Chad Brinker will now work as Green Bay’s assistant director of pro scouting and serve as a salary cap analyst, while Pat Moore will come over from the Browns and work as a college scout for the Packers. While former Packers exec John Dorsey is now the Browns’ GM, Moore spent five years in Cleveland working under previous regimes. Former NFL defensive back Brandian Ross will make greater inroads into the scouting world. The Packers are promoting the 28-year-old, who played for three teams from 2012-15 after coming into the league as a UDFA out of Youngstown State, to a college scouting role after he spent last year as a scouting assistant. Luke Benuska will also earn greater responsibility; he’ll work as a college scout after serving as a pro scout.
  • The Titans made a few adjustments to their staff on Friday. Most notably, player personnel director Ryan Cowden will now serve as the franchise’s VP of player personnel, TitansOnline.com’s Terry McCormick reports (on Twitter). Tennessee brought in Cowden two years ago to that player personnel director role. Previously, he spent 16 seasons with the Panthers, finishing his years there as Carolina’s assistant director of college scouting. Additionally, Kevin Turks will now serve as Titans assistant director of pro personnel and Rob Reiderer will work as a scouting assistant.