The New England Patriots announced on Tuesday that they’ve promoted Matt Groh to director of participant personnel. He replaces Dave Ziegler, who held that publish final season, and has since left the group to turn into the overall supervisor of the Las Vegas Raiders, teaming up with former Patriots offensive coordinator Josh McDaniels, who was lately named Raiders head coach.
Groh has been with the Patriots group courting again to 2011, the place he started as a scouting assistant. Most lately, he served because the group’s school scouting director and helped New England to one in every of its most profitable drafts in current reminiscence, which produced quarterback Mac Jones, defensive sort out Christian Barmore and operating again Rhamondre Stevenson.
The Hingham, Massachusetts, native additionally has ties to the group that stretch past his tenure. His father, Al Groh, was the defensive coordinator for the Patriots underneath Invoice Parcels from 1993-1996.
An in-house strategy to exchange Ziegler at all times appeared to the most definitely route that the Patriots would go down with both Groh or scouting marketing consultant Eliot Wolf — who interviewed for GM jobs this offseason — taking the reins. Each Groh and Wolf had been reportedly main the cost for the Patriots scouting division on the 2022 Senior Bowl.
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Within the early levels of this offseason, the Patriots have seen a drain in brainpower. On the teaching employees, McDaniels left to the Raiders and took quite a few assistants (Mick Lombardi, Bo Hardegree, and Carmen Bricillo) with him. That is not mentioning the potential retirement of very long time runnings backs coach Ivan Fears. These departures, together with Ziegler within the entrance workplace, has left Invoice Belichick with plenty of work to do in reconstructing New England’s operation.
With Groh formally slotted in to spearhead the entrance workplace, that is one necessary domino falling into place.
