Commanders poach another key overseer of Lions rebuild
Three years ago, the idea of men and women who work for the Detroit Lions being sought after via different National Football League teams would have been ridiculous.
The Lions had been the league’s laughing stock for years and the organisation was once normally considered if now not the worst, one of the worst in the NFL.
Things have without a doubt changed.
Detroit has just lost its 2nd member of the front workplace during the offseason. … To the identical team.
The Washington Commanders named Lions senior director of soccer administration Brandon Sosna as their new senior vice president of soccer operations on Monday.
The Commanders previously hired Detroit senior director of player personnel Lance Newmark as assistant popular manager.
Sosna had been the Lions’ lead contract negotiator for greater than a year. He oversaw the profits cap and helped negotiate the contract extensions of quarterback Jared Goff, extensive receiver Amon-Ra St. Brown and offensive handle Penei Sewell. Sosna had also been praised through Detroit general supervisor Brad Holmes for his work in free agency.
The Commanders, amongst a few other teams, also interviewed Detroit offensive and protective coordinators Ben Johnson and Aaron Glenn to be their hea
d coach. Johnson in the end pulled out of the walking for the Atlanta Falcons head-coaching position to remain the Lions OC.
But the Lions have long gone from being the (largely unsuccessful) hunters to the hunted. And it’s a nod to the success that the franchise has had considering the fact that Sheila Ford Hamp took over as Detroit’s fundamental owner and chairwoman in June 2020.
She hired Holmes as established supervisor and Dan Campbell as head coach. Then the crew accelerated from 3-13-1 in 2021 to 9-8 in 2022 to 12-5, two playoff wins and a day trip to the NFC Championship Game ultimate season.
The NFL is a copy-cat league and other teams choose a piece of that kind of turnaround.
But it nonetheless appears surreal that they’re attempting to copy the Lions.
