Check the New Orleans Saints’ list of front office personnel and you’ll see just two people working in the department of football administration: vice president Khai Harley and director Scott Kuhn. Harley’s former assistant Tosan Eyetsemitan moved to the pro scouting department this offseason, opening a role for Kuhn. So who is he?
Kuhn was hired as a pro scout with the Minnesota Vikings back in 2007, where he worked under former Vikings general manager Rick Spielman. Last season he was promoted to Minnesota’s director of football quantitative methods while continuing to work in the pro scouting department, where his work took a more analytical focus. The Vikings didn’t retain him after the 2022 season while new GM Kwesi Adofo-Mensah restructures his front office.
Harley is known as New Orleans’ in-house salary cap expert, working to navigate the cap and maximize the team’s spending resources each year. But he won’t be around forever. It’s only a matter of time before other teams come sniffing around and seek to poach him for a general manager job of his own (ex-Saints executive Terry Fontenot tried to bring him to the Atlanta Falcons) and it’s worth investing in qualified candidates to replace Harley, if need be. Bringing in guys like Eyetsemitan and Kuhn could pay off in a big way.
