Just a few days after the Broncos wrapped a bow on their 2025 NFL draft class, one of their key talent evaluators is heading for new pastures.
The Las Vegas Raiders have hired the Broncos’ director of college scouting Brian Stark as their new assistant general manager, a source with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Denver Post on Wednesday. He’ll work for a familiar Denver face in Raiders general manager John Spytek, who cut his teeth alongside Stark as a Broncos scout from 2013-15.
It’s a big leap up the ladder for Stark, who’s served in the Broncos’ scouting department since 2012 and was promoted in 2017. The Broncos interviewed him for their general manager opening in 2021, before eventually hiring George Paton away from the Minnesota Vikings.
The hiring means an already-thin Denver front office and personnel department is down another important figure. In the span of a month between January and February, the Broncos lost four supplementary decision-makers, including former assistant GM Darren Mougey to the New York Jets and vice president of football operations Mark Thewes — just like Stark — to the Raiders.
Beneath head coach Sean Payton and general manager George Paton, the Broncos have plenty of behind-the-scenes holes to fill this offseason, a blow to continuity heading into 2025.
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