CHARLOTTE – The Panthers have been looking for a new general manager for two days, and the process is moving quickly through a broad group of candidates.
The Panthers interviewed four more candidates on Tuesday, including Patriots player director Nick Caserio, GM assistant Joe Schoen of Bills, Titans player director, Monti Ossenfort, and Saints GM assistant and director Jeff Ireland College Scouts.
Along with Monday’s interviews with Browns vice president of football operations Kwesi Adofo-Mensah and ex-Giants GM Jerry Reese, they put together an extremely diverse list of candidates.
So far, they’ve talked to candidates with long CVs, unconventional CVs and everything.
Reese, 57, helped the Giants win a pair of Super Bowls as GM, while Adofo-Mensah, 39, is a former Princeton and Stanford-based Wall Street broker who brings a new perspective at a time. where owner David Tepper talked about modernizing the football operation.
Tuesday’s interviews had a significant New England vibe, as Caserio was Bill Belichick’s top lieutenant, and Ossenfort spent 15 years there before joining a group of expats (and ex-Pats) in Tennessee last season.
The other two have connections here, since Ireland is a former Baylor player (although not when coach Matt Rhule was there), and Schoen started his journey in the NFL as a Scout intern with the Panthers before moving up the ranks.
The Panthers have acted quickly in the past, as Rhule was hired on January 7, 2020, a week after the end of the 2019 regular season.
Here are the profiles of the six candidates who have been interviewed so far, listed in alphabetical order: