Dawgs By Nature
The Cleveland Browns are welcoming back a familiar face as Ryan Grigson is reportedly coming back to town to serve as a senior football advisor in general manager Andrew Berry’s front office.
That is according to Mary Kay Cabot at cleveland.com.
This will be Grigson’s third tenure with the Browns. He was first brought in by Berry after the 2017 NFL Draft, but was fired the following January when John Dorsey took over as general manager and ushered in the “football guy” era of Browns football.
Berry returned to Cleveland in 2020, however, and once again called on Grigson, who filled the role of senior football advisor for two seasons.
Since then, Grigson spent time with the Seattle Seahawks in an advisory role before joining the Minnesota Vikings in 2022, working under former general manager Kwesi Adofo-Mensah, who was familiar with Grigson from their time together with the Browns.
Grigson spent three years as Minnesota’s senior vice president of player personnel before being promoted to assistant general manager in 2025.
Adofo-Mensah was fired in January; however, after Minnesota hired Nolan Teasley as general manager last week, Grigson decided it was time to hit the road, with Barry giving him a landing spot.
The Vikings hired two new general managers: Trent Kirchner, a scouting and personnel executive with the Seattle Seahawks, and Andrew Healy, an analytics expert with the Browns who was described as the “smartest person working in the NFL” by a Browns employee.
Before joining the Browns for the first time, Grigson was general manager of the Indianapolis Colts from 2012 to 2016, a tenure that is not remembered all that fondly in the Hoosier state.
