As is common in the wake of the 2025 NFL Draft, several NFL teams have been making updates to their front offices. One of the latest such teams is the Giants, who made a number of changes to their scouting staff recently.
According to Dan Duggan of The Athletic, the Giants and national scout Mike Derice have parted ways. Derice has been in the role for three years, joining the team shortly after the 2022 NFL Draft. The change comes as a bit of surprise with so much positive reception to the team’s last two drafts.
A new face will join the scouting department, though, as Jordan Raanan of ESPN reports that the team has hired Tyson Beane as a scouting assistant. Beane is the son of Bills general manager Brandon Beane. With Giants general manager Joe Schoen having served five years in Buffalo as Beane’s assistant general manager, it makes sense for Tyson to land in New York, if not Buffalo.
Per Raanan, the Giants also lost a member of their coaching staff. Offensive assistant Angela Baker has reportedly left the organization in order to pursue opportunities elsewhere in the NFL. Baker had worked with the team since 2022.
Here are a few other staff updates from around the NFC:
- The Falcons also made a pair of changes, per Neil Stratton of SucceedinFootball.com. Stratton noted a change in the LinkedIn account of Andy Grossman showing a promotion from football data analyst to senior football data analyst. After working on staff at Northwestern, Grossman joined Atlanta back in 2022.
- On the scouting side of things, the Falcons are saying goodbye to national scout Joel Collier, who has been with the team since 2016. After starting as a graduate assistant at Syracuse from 1988-89, Collier served as an NFL assistant coach from 1990-2007, working with the Buccaneers, Patriots, and Dolphins and taking one year in 1993 to work as a pro scout for the Patriots. His NFL coaching career came to an end when he was hired as assistant general manager of the Chiefs, a role he held for six years. He arrived in Atlanta as director of pro personnel in 2016 before being reassigned as national scout in 2019.
- Stratton also informs us that another NFL staffer with 30+ years of experience is parting ways with their most recent employer. The Vikings are reportedly parting ways with personnel scout Frank Acevedo. Acevedo has been in Minnesota for the last 23 years after starting his NFL career with seven seasons in Kansas City. He will explore more options in 2025.
- The Rams also announced a number of updates to their scouting staff, per Stratton. Two scouting apprentices earned promotions as Cory Moore was names an area scout and Michael Young was names a pro scout. Roman Cooper was also hired to serve as senior scouting assistant.
- Lastly, the Eagles have hired Smit Bajaj to serve as the team’s quantitative analyst. Bajaj was part of the winning...
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