The Jets’ basic supervisor search is ramping up.
Former Tennessee Titans basic supervisor Jon Robinson and former NFL govt Louis Riddick are set to interview for the Jets’ open GM job, ESPN reported Sunday.
The event comes a bit of below a month after the Jets fired basic supervisor Joe Douglas following five-plus seasons within the function.
Robinson’s interview is about to happen this week, in accordance with ESPN. The Titans went 66-48 in Robinson’s seven seasons as GM and made the playoffs 4 instances.
Tennessee drafted celebrity operating again Derrick Henry in Robinson’s first yr on the helm and standout vast receiver A.J. Brown three years later.
The Titans fired Robinson, 48, in December 2022 and changed him with present basic supervisor Ran Carthon the next month.
Riddick, in the meantime, is about to interview with the Jets in some unspecified time in the future within the subsequent few weeks.
A former NFL security, Riddick, 55, held a number of roles within the Washington and Philadelphia entrance workplaces, together with director of professional personnel for each organizations.
He has labored for ESPN as a soccer analyst since 2013 however has ceaselessly interviewed for basic supervisor jobs over the previous decade, together with with the Giants in 2017.
Robinson and Riddick are anticipated to be amongst a bigger pool of candidates thought of for the Jets’ GM emptiness. The Jets should wait till the tip of the common season to interview executives presently employed by NFL groups.
The Jets fired Douglas on Nov. 19, six weeks after they fired head coach Robert Saleh. Phil Savage has operated because the Jets’ interim GM, whereas Jeff Ulbrich has served because the interim head coach.
The Jets went 30-64 below Douglas and didn’t make the playoffs or end with a profitable report in any yr of his tenure. Douglas was the final supervisor when the Jets drafted Zach Wilson with the No. 2 total choose in 2021 and after they traded for Aaron Rodgers in 2023.
Final month, the Jets enlisted The thirty third Group — a soccer evaluation firm based by former Jets basic supervisor Mike Tannenbaum in 2019 — to assist of their seek for a brand new GM and head coach.
Tannenbaum, who spent 15 years within the Jets entrance workplace, together with 2006-12 as the final supervisor, is spearheading the pursuit with former Minnesota Vikings basic supervisor Rick Spielman.
The Jets would contemplate hiring a head coach earlier than their basic supervisor, in accordance with ESPN, which is a much less conventional method.
