{"id":893503,"date":"2026-05-17T07:18:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/893503\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T07:18:19","slug":"giants-hire-former-texans-cardinals-executive-for-front-office-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/893503\/","title":{"rendered":"Giants hire former Texans, Cardinals executive for front-office role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/ny-giants\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:New York Giants;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;New York Giants&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Giants<\/a> are adding former <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/houston\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Houston Texans;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Houston Texans&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Houston Texans<\/a> and <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/arizona\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Arizona Cardinals;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Arizona Cardinals&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arizona Cardinals<\/a> executive John Ritchie to their front office, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AaronWilson_NFL\/status\/2055751741635715322\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to a report on Saturday from NFL insider Aaron Wilson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;according to a report on Saturday from NFL insider Aaron Wilson&quot;}\" class=\"link \">according to a report on Saturday from NFL insider Aaron Wilson<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ritchie spent the last eight seasons with the Houston Texans, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/sports\/2026\/05\/16\/sources-texans-executive-john-ritcher-joins-giants-personnel-department\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:carried the title of co-director of college scouting;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;carried the title of co-director of college scouting&quot;}\" class=\"link \">carried the title of co-director of college scouting<\/a>. Prior to ascending to that job, he had been an area and national scout for Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ritchie also worked for the Arizona Cardinals for six seasons before landing in Houston. He overlapped with <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/ny-giants\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Giants;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Giants&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Giants<\/a> GM Joe Schoen and senior vice president of football operations and strategy Dawn Aponte when he was a scouting assistant with the <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/nfl\/teams\/miami\/\" data-i13n=\"sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link\" data-ylk=\"slk:Miami Dolphins;sec:content-canvas;subsec:anchor_text;elm:context_link;itc:0\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Miami Dolphins&quot;,&quot;ySubModuleName&quot;:&quot;anchor_text&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Dolphins<\/a> in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Giants do not have a director of college scouting in their front office. Ryan Dunleavy of the New York Post <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rydunleavy\/status\/2055776208768438564\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:believes that is the role Ritchie will assume;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;believes that is the role Ritchie will assume&quot;}\" class=\"link \">believes that is the role Ritchie will assume<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This is the first reported change in the Giants\u2019 front office since the end of the 2026 NFL Draft. There have been no reported firings or defections.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The New York Giants are adding former Houston Texans and Arizona Cardinals executive John Ritchie to their front&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":893504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2056],"tags":[390,103787,7,7410,519,221,253,2368,201,120287,251,56,6,222,1799],"class_list":["post-893503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston-texans","tag-arizona-cardinals","tag-dawn-aponte","tag-football","tag-front-office","tag-giants","tag-houston","tag-houston-texans","tag-houstontexans","tag-joe-schoen","tag-john-ritchie","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-new-york-giants","tag-nfl","tag-texans","tag-the-giants"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116588701527083418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893503","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=893503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/893504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}