Broncos general manager George Paton is promoting from within to fill his top front office opening.<\/p>\n
Paton is making Reed Burckhardt his assistant general manager, promoting the director of player personnel into the job previously held by Darren Mougey.<\/p>\n
Mougey was named the New York Jets\u2019 general manager in January.<\/p>\n
Burckhardt has extensive history with Paton. The pair worked together for 12 years in Minnesota before Paton was hired as the Broncos general manager in 2021. Burckhardt stayed with the Vikings for that season before Paton hired him in Denver in 2022 as his director of player personnel.<\/p>\n
Burckhardt is one of several Broncos front office staffers in line for a new title this offseason after Denver had a mass exodus of key executives.<\/p>\n
Paton told The Post in late March that Burckhardt was one of the people who stepped up as the departures mounted<\/a>, though he also missed some time right around free agency when he had a child born.<\/p>\n \u201cFrom Reed to (VP of player personnel) Cody Rager, Brian Stark,\u201d Paton said then of those who took on extra responsibility. \u201c(Stark\u2019s) had to take the brunt of it, the college scouting director, because the draft has obviously been the focus. He\u2019s had to organize it, and he\u2019s been great. All the scouts, really, have stepped up.<\/p>\n \u201c(Midwest national scout) Bryan Chesin, (assistant college scouting director) Nick Schiralli, (Western national scout) Sae Woon Jo. Just the communication\u2019s been different. Now they\u2019re pretty much just talking to me. \u2018Moug\u2019 was kind of a buffer \u2014 I mean, I talked to them all the time, but it\u2019s just different.\u201d<\/p>\n Stark has also since left the organization to become the assistant general manager in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n The Burckhardt promotion follows the hire of former Patriots director of college scouting Camren Williams as the Broncos\u2019 co-director of player personnel<\/a>. A source told The Post that Williams\u2019 title will still serve as co-director, not fully replacing Burckhardt in the role, indicating further internal reshuffling is likely to come across the next week.<\/p>\n With Denver\u2019s assistant-GM role now filled, Paton\u2019s largest forthcoming task is to find a new director of college scouting, replacing organizational mainstay Brian Stark after he was hired by the Las Vegas Raiders.<\/p>\n