The Las Vegas Raiders are requesting the Cincinnati Bengals to let them interview Trey Brown for their vacant general manager job, according to Tom Pelissero.
It is a pretty noteworthy piece of news for several reasons. The first — and most important — being that the Bengals have the smallest scouting department in the NFL, so any subtraction is a fairly big deal at this point with the offseason just on the horizon.
Another big reason is Brown may be one of the best scouts Cincinnati has. When you take a look at his qualifications from an article Geoff Hobson wrote about Brown prior to the season, it is easy to see why he is so coveted by other teams.