Less than 12 hours after the firing of Sashi Brown, the Cleveland Browns named John Dorsey their new general manager.
It’s a home run hiring for the Haslam family, landing someone with the NFL credentials of Dorsey, not baseball and Ivy league backgrounds, to take over the NFL’s most dysfunctional organization.
After the failed two-year analytics experiment led by Brown, who was named vice president of football operations despite having no scouting experience, Dorsey brings a long and successful track record of talent evaluation and team building from his years in Green Bay and Kansas City.
Dorsey will have a boatload of draft capital thanks to Brown and fellow analytics executives Paul DePodesta and Andrew Berry, both of whom — for now — remain under contract with the team.