The New York Giants are in danger of losing some of their young leadership group to other teams seeking to build their front offices and coaching staffs.
Assistant general manager Brandon Brown and offensive coordinator Mike Kafka have been making the rounds this offseason, interviewing for GM and head coaching vacancies around the league.
Giant fans are nervous as the poaching is coming way too soon in the team’s rebuild and could stunt the team’s progress should they lose one or both men.
There is a silver lining, however.
If the Giants lose Brown and/or Kafka to other teams in promotional moves, they will be eligible to receive compensation in upcoming NFL drafts as both are considered minority candidates.
Yes. Checked on this and he qualifies as a minority candidate (his grandparents are Puerto Rican, according to a @DarrylSlater story).
So if the Giants lose Kafka or Brown to a HC/GM job, they'll get a third-round comp pick in 2024 and 2025. If they lose both, they'll get a… https://t.co/cQUTJwiPd6
— Dan Duggan (@DDuggan21) January 24, 2024
Yes, as per an addition to the Rooney Rule in 2020, teams that “lose a minority executive or coach to another team … would receive a third-round compensatory pick for two years. If a team lost both a coach and personnel member, it would receive a third-round compensatory pick for three years.”
The picks naturally come at the end of the third round. The expansion of the Rooney Rule aims to incentivize teams to hire and develop minority candidates in leadership roles.
