The Jets’ seek for a brand new common supervisor took them Tuesday to the person who drafted Derrick Henry and A.J. Brown.
Jon Robinson, the Tennessee Titans’ common supervisor from 2016-22, accomplished an interview with the Jets for his or her vacant GM job, the staff introduced.
Robinson, 48, is the second particular person recognized to interview for the function, becoming a member of former Falcons common supervisor Thomas Dimitroff, whose sitdown was confirmed Monday by the Jets.
In Robinson’s seven seasons as GM, the Titans went 66-48 and made the playoffs 4 instances. They chose the celebrity working again Henry within the second spherical of the 2016 draft and the standout vast receiver Brown in the identical spherical three years later.
Regardless of Robinson’s observe document, the Titans fired him in December 2022 and changed him with present supervisor Ran Carthon a month later.
The Jets need to fill the job vacated by Joe Douglas, whom they fired final month after five-plus seasons as their common supervisor.
They didn’t make the playoffs or end with a successful document in any yr below Douglas, going 30-64 total. It was throughout his tenure that the Jets drafted Zach Wilson with the No. 2 total choose in 2021 and traded for Aaron Rodgers earlier than the 2023 season.
The Jets canned Douglas six weeks after they fired head coach Robert Saleh. The firings got here amid a misplaced season for the Jets, who improved to 4-10 with a win in Jacksonville on Sunday.
Phil Savage is serving because the Jets’ interim GM, whereas Jeff Ulbrich is the interim head coach.
The Jets enlisted The thirty third Workforce — a soccer evaluation firm based by former Jets common supervisor Mike Tannenbaum — to help proprietor Woody Johnson in his searches for each positions.
The Falcons went 113-95 throughout Dimitroff’s tenure from 2008-20 and superior to the Tremendous Bowl after the 2016 season. Matt Ryan and Julio Jones have been amongst his notable draft picks.
Louis Riddick, who was the director of professional personnel in Washington and Philadelphia, is predicted to interview with the Jets as properly, in line with ESPN.
Riddick, who has been an ESPN analyst since 2013, has by no means been a GM however has regularly interviewed for vacancies, together with with the Giants in 2017.
The Jets can’t interview executives employed by NFL groups till after the common season.
