Kyle O’Brien, a Garden City product with 19 years of NFL experience, has been hired by the Giants to fill the newly created position of senior personnel executive, the team announced on Monday.
O’Brien, who grew up on Long Island but attended high school in Massachusetts before attending Harvard where he played lacrosse, arrives after spending the past five seasons with the Lions, the last four as vice president of player personnel. He’s also had stops in his career with Jacksonville, Kansas City and New England and began his NFL career as an intern with the Jets’ player personnel department in 1999.