According to a report from ESPN’s Pete Thamel, the Detroit Lions are hiring USC’s chief of staff for athletics Brandon Sosna as their new senior director of football administration. Lions’ coach Dan Campbell confirmed the hiring of Sosna at his Thursday press conference.
“Sosna comes to the Lions with NFL experience,” Thamel wrote. “He spent the 2017 and 2018 seasons with the Cleveland Browns, where his roles included salary cap and contract analyst. He started with the Browns in the football administration department.”
Sosna’s time in the NFL was when John Dorsey—the Lions’ current senior personnel executive—was the Browns' general manager, making the connection from California to Detroit an easy one to see.