When Bob Quinn was hired as the Lions’ General Manager in January, he kept on board many of the scouts that he inherited. But now that the draft is over, he’s cutting two of them loose.
Quinn fired scouts Chad Henry and Darren Anderson, Dave Birkett of the Detroit Free Press reports.
It’s not unusual for teams to fire scouts after the draft. Quinn may have felt when he took the job that he needed to go in a different direction with the scouting staff, but that he didn’t want to lose the scouts who had already spent the entire college football season scouting players. Now that the draft is over, those scouts’ services are no longer needed.
As Quinn reshapes the Lions’ front office, several personnel people he inherited have been let go. Scott McEwen, the Lions’ longest-tenured scout, and Sheldon White, V.P. of pro personnel, were both fired soon after Quinn took the job.
