{"id":649490,"date":"2026-01-03T01:29:12","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649490\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T01:29:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T01:29:12","slug":"bengals-mike-potts-becoming-an-nfl-gm-this-offseason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/649490\/","title":{"rendered":"Bengals\u2019 Mike Potts becoming an NFL GM this offseason?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 front office structure continues to draw scrutiny from fans who want the organization to hire a traditional general manager. The closest we\u2019ve come is Duke Tobin, who is the de facto GM and the Director of Player Personnel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">So, while there isn\u2019t a desk at Paycor Stadium with a GM nameplate on the desk, one member of the current personnel department may be positioning himself for that role elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/nfl\/hot-names-to-watch-potential-future-nfl-general-managers-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:According to Sports Illustrated\u2019s Albert Breer;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">According to Sports Illustrated\u2019s Albert Breer<\/a>, Bengals assistant general manager Mike Potts is a name \u201cclosing in\u201d on a full-fledged NFL general manager job. Potts was promoted to assistant GM during the 2024 offseason, joining Steven Radicevic and Trey Brown in newly created roles under director of player personnel Duke Tobin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cI\u2019ve mentioned Trey Brown and Steve Radicevic, the other two promoted to assistant GM last year, as good names\u2014and now it\u2019s Potts\u2019 turn,\u201d Breer wrote. \u201cAll three are very capable, even despite a couple of frustrating years in Cincinnati for Duke Tobin and his staff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">\u201cPotts has long been the linchpin of the Bengals\u2019 college scouting operation, and really has to get his hands dirty, because of the small size of Tobin\u2019s group. In doing so, he\u2019s earned the respect of so many in the scouting community. And as is the case with Brown and Radicevic, these guys all get to work in all facets of the roster-building process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Potts enters his 11th season with the Bengals and his 15th year working in the NFL. Per <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bengals.com\/news\/bengals-player-personnel-staff-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Bengals.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Bengals.com<\/a>, his responsibilities include managing the personnel staff, overseeing the draft process, evaluating top prospects nationwide, developing the draft board, and facilitating undrafted free agency. His role extends beyond college scouting and into all aspects of roster construction.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With more than a decade inside the Bengals\u2019 building and a hand in shaping recent rosters, Potts has become a logical candidate for teams seeking a traditional general manager structure. Whether or not Cincinnati ever adopts that model internally, his recent promotion may be a signal that other organizations are taking notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Cincinnati Bengals\u2019 front office structure continues to draw scrutiny from fans who want the organization to hire&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649491,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2053],"tags":[7453,80285,228,227,256,2296,20911,7,3948,94456,45641,6,45642,11179],"class_list":["post-649490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cincinnati-bengals","tag-albert-breer","tag-assistant-gm","tag-bengals","tag-cincinnati","tag-cincinnati-bengals","tag-cincinnatibengals","tag-duke-tobin","tag-football","tag-gm","tag-gm-nameplate","tag-mike-potts","tag-nfl","tag-steven-radicevic","tag-trey-brown"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115828579640835338","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649490","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=649490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}