Ossenfort Named Arizona Cardinals GM

There may be one fewer candidate within the Tennessee Titans’ seek for a common supervisor.

Monti Ossenfort is the brand new common supervisor of the Arizona Cardinals, that crew introduced Monday afternoon.

With Arizona, he will likely be in command of personnel for a franchise that has been to the postseason simply as soon as in seven years and has not received a playoff recreation since 2015. After ending 4-13 this season, the Cardinals have the No. 3 decide within the 2023 NFL Draft.

Arizona is also in search of a head coach. Kliff Kingsbury was fired following the common season after having gone 28-37-1 in 4 seasons.

“It was critically-important for us to search out the proper individual to guide us as common supervisor and there’s no doubt in my thoughts that we’ve got that in Monti Ossenfort,” Arizona proprietor Michael Bidwill stated in an announcement. “He possesses each attribute of a profitable GM – ardour, management, intelligence, work ethic – and his in depth expertise has clearly ready him for this function. We couldn’t be extra thrilled to have Monti and his household becoming a member of the Cardinals.”

Bidwell added that wishes Ossenfort to be concerned within the number of a head coach.

Ossenfort, the Titans’ director of participant personnel for the previous three seasons, was one among two in-house candidates who kicked off the interview course of final week because the Titans search a substitute for Jon Robinson, who was fired on Dec. 6.

He reportedly interviewed with Arizona on Friday, three days after he met with Titans franchise leaders led by controlling proprietor Amy Adams Strunk.

Earlier than he got here to Tennessee, Ossenfort was runner-up within the Cleveland Browns’ common supervisor search in 2020. Final yr, he interviewed with three groups (Chicago, Minnesota and the New York Giants) in pursuit of a job as a common supervisor.

With the Titans, he was a key member of the entrance workplace that rolled by way of an NFL-record 91 totally different gamers through the 2021 season. Tennessee went 12-5 and completed because the No. 1 seed within the AFC playoffs. Tennessee completed first within the AFC South in every of his first two seasons.

The 44-year-old spent greater than a decade within the New England Patriots’ entrance workplace earlier than he joined the Titans. Throughout that point, the Patriots received 4 Tremendous Bowls, and he changed Robinson as New England’s scouting director in 2014 when Robinson left to affix the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ entrance workplace.