{"id":34538,"date":"2025-05-08T19:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/34538\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T19:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T19:59:10","slug":"patriots-hire-alonzo-highsmiths-son-a-j-highsmith-in-personnel-role-nbc-sports-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/34538\/","title":{"rendered":"Patriots hire Alonzo Highsmith\u2019s son A.J. Highsmith in personnel role \u2013 NBC Sports Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"

The New England Patriots have found a new leader in their pro scouting department, and he’s a familiar face to at least one member of the front office.<\/p>\n

The Patriots have hired A.J. Highsmith as their director of pro scouting, The Boston Globe’s Christopher Price reports<\/a>. Highsmith is the son of Patriots senior personnel executive Alonzo Highsmith, who joined the front office at the beginning of last season.<\/p>\n

A.J. Highsmith replaces former Patriots director of player personnel Patrick Stewart, who left the team in February to become the general manager at the University of Nebraska.<\/p>\n

Like his father Alonzo, A.J. Highsmith played football at the University of Miami (Fla.) as both a quarterback and defensive back. After graduating in 2013, Highsmith joined the San Francisco 49ers in 2014 as a pro personnel scout and spent the next 10-plus years in NFL front offices, with stops in Buffalo (as an area scout) and Tennessee (scouting director).<\/p>\n

The Titans parted ways with Highsmith this offseason after hiring new general manager Mike Borgonzi, and now Highsmith will join his father in a front office led by head coach Mike Vrabel, executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf and vice president of player personnel (and former Titans general manager) Ryan Cowden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New England Patriots have found a new leader in their pro scouting department, and he’s a familiar…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2050],"tags":[13339,839,7,1167,249,2326,2094,6,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-34538","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-england-patriots","8":"tag-alonzo-highsmith","9":"tag-eliot-wolf","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-new-england","12":"tag-new-england-patriots","13":"tag-newengland","14":"tag-newenglandpatriots","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-patriots"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114473989816084163","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}