Giants assistant GM Brandon Brown is interviewing for the Las Vegas Raiders’ GM opening.
Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant GM John Spytek is considered the frontrunner for the job, but it would be great for both Brown and the Giants if he landed the gig. The Raiders’ request to interview Brown was first reported by CBS Sports.
Brown, 36, would climb upwards despite his association with the Giants’ last three seasons that dragged the franchise to a league-worst 3-14 record in 2024, tied with the Titans and Browns.
The Giants would receive a compensatory third-round pick in each of the next two NFL Drafts for having a minority employee hired by another club as its head coach or primary football executive.
Brown, whom the Giants hired away from the Philadelphia Eagles in 2022, would mark the second departure of this offseason from Giants GM Joe Schoen’s inner circle.
Ryan Cowden, an executive advisor to Schoen, just left to join the Patriots and reunite with Mike Vrabel, his former Tennessee Titans colleague, as New England’s new No. 2 behind executive VP of player personnel Eliot Wolf.
Cowden comparatively had a cup of coffee with the Giants from June 2023 into Jan. 2025.
He is best known for yelling “F–k!” in the Giants’ draft room during a scene of HBO’s Hard Knocks in reaction to the Houston Texans’ selection of corner Kamari Lassiter at pick No. 42.
The Giants badly needed a corner last offseason, but Schoen traded the team’s No. 39 overall pick in the early second round for edge rusher Brian Burns.
The Saints took Kool-Aid McKinstry at pick No. 41. The Texans took Lassiter at No. 42. And the Giants at No. 47 ended up with safety Tyler Nubin, who was baptized by fire during a tough rookie season.
Other Giants staff changes — in addition to Wednesday’s firings of defensive backs coach Jerome Henderson and safeties coach Mike Treier — include defensive assistant Ben Burress going to South Carolina, director of strength and conditioning Frank Piraino following Vrabel to New England after one year in New York, and director of sports and performance nutrition Steve Smith leaving, per The Athletic.