{"id":877651,"date":"2026-04-29T08:18:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/877651\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:18:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:18:23","slug":"titans-president-of-football-operations-chad-brinker-stepping-down-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/877651\/","title":{"rendered":"Titans President Of Football Operations Chad Brinker Stepping Down"},"content":{"rendered":"

Titans President of Football Operations Chad Brinker is stepping down from his role, the team announced this evening<\/a>. The 46-year-old spent the past three years in Tennessee\u2019s front office.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>\u201cIt has been an honor to serve as President of Football Operations of the Tennessee Titans,\u201d Brinker said in his statement. \u201cOver the years, I\u2019ve understood and embraced my role as the leader of the football strategy, but as I\u2019ve spent less time in personnel, I have a renewed conviction that it is time to return to what I love and move towards my next chapter. I\u2019m grateful for Amy\u2019s understanding in my decision, and for allowing me to pursue other opportunities.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of the work we\u2019ve done over the past three years \u2013 under challenging circumstances \u2013 to begin the process of getting the Titans football organization back on track, not the least of which was last year\u2019s general manager search. I believe the Titans have exceptional people and long-term stability at the general manager position and throughout the scouting department. While there is work to be done, I believe we\u2019ve laid the foundation to restore the Titans to its rightful place as a sustainable, winning program.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy family and I will always be grateful for Amy\u2019s belief and trust in me, and for our time in Tennessee.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following a brief playing career that included a stint in NFL Europe, Brinker joined the Packers front office. He spent more than a decade with the organization, working his way up from a scouting intern to assistant director of pro scouting to eventually an administration executive gig.<\/p>\n

Brinker left for the Titans in 2023, earning a promotion to assistant general manager under Ray Carthon. When the GM was ousted after only one season in Tennessee, Brinker was named the Titans president of football operations, a role in which he reportedly had full control of the team\u2019s roster. The Titans website notes that he also reported directly to owner Amy Adams Strunk.<\/p>\n

Brinker kept his title through the 2025 campaign, although the Titans did hire a true GM in Mike Borgonzi last offseason. Brian Callahan was fired six games into the regular season, and the two front office leaders were tasked with conducting a coaching search. The organization ultimately landed on Robert Saleh. Now only a few months into the head coach\u2019s tenure, the team is seeing another significant change in leadership.<\/p>\n

The Titans website notes that Brinker was widely credited with reshaping the organization\u2019s analytic approach, and his apparent desire to return to \u201cpersonnel\u201d indicates that he wants a bit more from his front office role. Of course, there aren\u2019t any teams reshaping their front offices at this point in the offseason, but perhaps Brinker could emerge as a GM candidate during next year\u2019s cycle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Titans President of Football Operations Chad Brinker is stepping down from his role, the team announced this evening.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":877652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2061],"tags":[3404,7,8730,6,526,394,2411,527],"class_list":["post-877651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennessee-titans","tag-chad-brinker","tag-football","tag-newsstand","tag-nfl","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-titans","tag-tennesseetitans","tag-titans"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116487017310788589","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877651","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=877651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/877651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/877652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=877651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=877651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=877651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}