Chad Brinker is stepping down from his position because the Tennessee Titans president of soccer operations to pursue different alternatives, the staff introduced Tuesday night.
Brinker joined the Titans in 2023 because the assistant basic supervisor and in 2024 changed into the president of soccer operations, reporting at once to proprietor Amy Adams Strunk all the way through his first yr in that capability.
“It’s been an honor to function President of Soccer Operations of the Tennessee Titans,” Brinker mentioned in a observation during the staff. “Over time, I have understood and embraced my position because the chief of the soccer technique, however as I have spent much less time in staff, I’ve a renewed conviction that it’s time to go back to what I really like and transfer in opposition to my subsequent bankruptcy. I am thankful for Amy’s figuring out in my resolution, and for permitting me to pursue different alternatives.
“I am happy with the paintings we have completed over the last 3 years – underneath difficult instances – to start out the method of having the Titans soccer group again on course, no longer the least of which used to be closing yr’s basic supervisor seek. I imagine the Titans have outstanding other people and long-term steadiness on the basic supervisor place and all the way through the scouting division. Whilst there’s paintings to be completed, I imagine we have laid the basis to revive the Titans to its rightful position as a sustainable, successful program.”
In 2024, after basic supervisor Ran Carthon used to be fired, Brinker necessarily changed into the de issue GM as he reported at once to Strunk and oversaw the hiring of present basic supervisor Mike Borgonzi, who to begin with reported to Brinker after he used to be introduced on board.
“Once we first met Chad, it used to be transparent he used to be a phenomenal ability with deep wisdom of the sport and the power to attach big-picture technique to execution. Whilst it’s tricky to lose him, I perceive his resolution and can do no matter I will to enhance him. I want he, Rachelle, and their circle of relatives the best possible as they get ready for what is subsequent and thank them for his or her determination and loyalty to the Tennessee Titans.”
With Brinker as assistant GM and Carthon as GM, the Titans employed Brian Callahan as head trainer in January of 2024. After a 3-14 appearing in Callahan’s first marketing campaign, he used to be fired amid the staff’s three-win 2025. In January, NFL Community Insider Ian Rapoport and Tom Pelissero reported any other Titans restructuring of the entrance administrative center used to be to hand, with Borgonzi now not reporting to Brinker, however each reporting to Strunk.
Borgonzi oversaw the franchise’s hiring of Robert Saleh as head trainer and assumed ultimate say for roster building. Studies have been that the theory used to be a fabricated from Brinker and Borgonzi’s dialogue to raised streamline the operation.
Now, Brinker is long gone to discover different avenues whilst the Titans, lower than every week after the 2026 NFL Draft are reconfiguring their entrance administrative center another time.
Saleh will start the 2026 season because the staff’s 3rd full-time head trainer in 4 seasons.
Borgonzi is the staff’s 5th GM since 2015, together with intervening time GM Ryan Cowden in 2022 after Jon Robinson’s firing, however no longer together with Brinker.
The franchise established the professional place of president of soccer ops in 2023 with Brinker’s addition. Whether or not any other is added is still noticed, however the everchanging Titans entrance administrative center has been altered once more on a sleepy spring night.