Report: Entrance-runner for Jaguars’ GM place emerges
The 2025 GM carousel has spun for a number of weeks, however the Jaguars have been doing the one work right here for the previous few. Almost a month after firing Trent Baalke throughout their teaching search, the Jags are winding down their course of.
As second interviews have begun, one title has jumped out. Bears assistant GM Ian Cunningham seems to be to have emerged because the front-runner for this function, with Fox Sports activities’ Jordan Schultz going as far as to noticed that is his job to lose. In noting the Jaguars hope to have this place crammed this weekend, NFL.com’s Cameron Wolfe mentions Cunningham as a candidate to look at down the stretch right here. This is probably not too stunning, as his title surfaced shortly after this job turned open. Cunningham’s second interview is more likely to happen at present, per Schultz.
That is acquainted territory for Cunningham, who was the runner-up for the Commanders’ GM job that went to Adam Peters final yr. Cunningham is also a two-time finalist for the Titans’ GM put up, conducting second interviews with the staff in 2023 and ’25. A 2023 report additionally indicated Ryan Poles‘ high lieutenant turned down the Cardinals’ GM job, one Monti Ossenfort took. Regardless of the Bears but to make the playoffs in the course of the Poles-Cunningham regime, the latter is well-regarded across the league.
The Bears didn’t straight embrace Cunningham within the search that produced Ben Johnson final month, as Poles talked about his AGM would have been part of the search committee had he not been within the operating for the Tennessee job. The Titans employed the Chiefs’ Mike Borgonzi to work alongside Brian Callahan (and beneath soccer ops president Chad Brinker, successfully).
This Jags put up would include probably extra tasks, however Liam Coen is broadly considered as the highest energy dealer in Jacksonville post-Baalke. Coen commanded sufficient Jaguars curiosity that the staff fired Baalke after he had led the HC search, and the one-and-done Buccaneers OC is believed to have landed a Johnson-level contract from the AFC South membership. Johnson is incomes upper-crust teaching cash, at $13M per yr. New government VP Tony Boselli may have a task within the post-Baalke entrance workplace as properly. Whereas the Corridor of Fame deal with isn’t believed to be above Coen or the GM, he’ll play a key half right here in being set to report back to possession.
If the Bears lose Cunningham, a candidate to look at will likely be tight end-turned-exec Jeff King. The staff’s senior director of participant personnel would doubtless be the person to succeed Cunningham to work with Poles and Johnson, per the Chicago Tribune’s Brad Biggs. A Ryan Tempo rent, King has been with the Bears all through his personnel profession, which started in 2015. By way of PFR’s Normal Supervisor Search Tracker, right here is how their course of stands now that it’s within the finalist stage:
- Chad Alexander, assistant normal supervisor (Chargers): Interviewed 2/13
- Brandon Brown, assistant normal supervisor (Giants): Interviewed 2/13; sturdy contender?
- Trey Brown, senior personnel government (Bengals): Interviewed 2/12
- Ian Cunningham, assistant normal supervisor (Bears): To conduct second interview 2/19
- James Gladstone, scouting director (Rams): To conduct second interview
- Terrance Grey, vp of participant personnel (Payments): Interviewed 2/12
- Mike Greenberg, assistant normal supervisor (Buccaneers): Declined interview
- Champ Kelly, assistant normal supervisor (Raiders): Interviewed 2/14
- Jon Robinson, former normal supervisor (Titans): One in all high candidates?;
Interviewed 2/13 - Jon-Eric Sullivan, vp of participant personnel (Packers): To conduct second interview
- Ethan Waugh, interim normal supervisor (Jaguars): Sturdy candidate?; To interview
- Josh Williams, director of scouting and soccer operations (49ers): Performed second interview 2/19
