Plenty of changes already took place inside the New England Patriots front office this offseason.
Add another to the list.
According to multiple reports, including from ESPN’s Adam Schefter, Patriots director of college scouting Camren Williams is leaving New England to join the Denver Broncos in an elevated role as their co-director of player personnel.
Williams spent a decade with the Patriots, as he joined the organization in 2016 as a scouting assistant for Bill Belichick. Williams then worked for a few years as an area scout before becoming the team’s national scout in 2021. A year later, Williams was promoted to his latest position with the Patriots.
Williams’ departure it just the latest change in New England’s front office since the hiring of Mike Vrabel.
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Vrabel handpicked Ryan Cowden and John Streicher, two Vrabel confidants, to join him with the Patriots. Cowden left the New York Giants to pair up again with Vrabel — the two worked together with the Tennessee Titans — and serves as the team’s vice president of player personnel while Streicher’s title is vice president of football operations and strategy.
Eliot Wolf, who many predicted would be out of a job upon Cowden’s arrival, and Matt Groh still hold their positions as executive vice president of player personnel and director of player personnel, respectively.
The Patriots did see former pro personnel director Pat Stewart leave nearly three months ago to become the general manager of Nebraska football. A.J. Highsmith, whose father, Alonzo, is a senior personnel executive with the Patriots, was recently hired to fill that role.
“We’re going to continue to try to add players that are going to help us. We’re going to try to continue to add coaches that can help us potentially, and I would say that we’re going to probably try to do the same in the personnel department,” Vrabel told reporters last week, per MassLive’s Mark Daniels. “So, anybody that can help us and we feel like can help us ultimately win, we’re going to try to do that at every level throughout the program.”
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