Buckle up Philadelphia Eagles fans - it's a Howie Roseman offseason. Former CSN Philly Eagles Insider Geoff Mosher revealed on Tuesday that the Eagles will be suspending their search for a personnel chief and now are not expected to hire someone to lead the scouting department until after the 2016 NFL Draft.
Which, if you're keeping score at home, means that Roseman's the guy in control for the time being.
After Eagles owner Jeffrey Lurie unexpectedly decided to fire Chip Kelly and Kelly's handpicked top exec, Ed Marynowitz, Philly was left without a "high-ranking senior executive to lead the scouting department and determine the fate of current scouts," as Mosher puts it.
Of course, as Tim McManus of Philly Mag notes, most scouting hirings and firings come post-draft anyway when there's a bigger pool to pull from - scouting for a draft starts a year in advance, so even after a coaching and/or front office transition teams usually like to keep their current staff in place until after that year's draft - but this certainly seems to leave Philadelphia short-handed for the time being.
It also leaves them in the not-necessarily capable hands of Roseman, a guy who not all that long ago lost his job as the Eagles GM, first-time head coach Doug Pederson and remote consultant Tom Donahoe.
Per Mosher, Roseman will have "final say on all of this year's free-agent signings and draft selections."
Roseman admitted at the Senior Bowl this past week that he kept up with watching tape despite his removal from that part of operations in Philly under Kelly, so maybe there's a little optimism there for Eagles fans.
But as of right now, the highest-ranking college scout on the Eagle staff is Trey Brown, who was promoted by Marynowitz to assistant college scouting director last summer.
Mosher's sources indicate that there is a belief the Eagles may struggle to fill the role even after the draft, due to their poorly-defined front office structure and the fact that it requires working under Roseman.
Brandon Hunt, pro personnel coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers, is a candidate for the job and someone with which Lurie and Roseman have had "multiple discussions," per Mosher, but it certainly looks like whoever the Eagles will hire, whether it be Hunt or another NFL exec, it won't come for several months.
