Scot McCloughan
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Scot G. McCloughan (born March 1, 1971) is an
Early life
McCloughan was born in
Prior to his career in American football, McCloughan played
Executive career
Still an outfielder for the Dunedin Blue Jays in 1994, McCloughan received a call from then
Shortly after leaving the 49ers, McCloughan was hired by Seattle Seahawks general manager and close friend, John Schneider, to be a senior personnel executive on the team.[11] McCloughan accepted, and later assisted with the team's drafting of notable players in later rounds of the draft such as Russell Wilson, K. J. Wright, Kam Chancellor, Richard Sherman and Byron Maxwell.[2] He also had success in earlier rounds helping to draft players such as Earl Thomas, Russell Okung, Golden Tate, Bruce Irvin and Bobby Wagner in either the first or second round. McCloughan remained in this position until April 2014, when he again resigned due to personal issues.[1][12] After he left the Seahawks, McCloughan started up his own college scouting agency in Ferndale, Washington, where he evaluated incoming draftees for a handful of NFL teams.[1]
In January 2015, McCloughan was hired as general manager of the
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Wickersham, Seth. "The Far Sideline: Scot McCloughan is NFL's best talent scout, self-employed and living on a farm". ESPN. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ a b Wickersham, Seth. "The Seahawks' prevailing wisdom". ABC News. Retrieved April 28, 2016.
- ^ Dougherty, Pete. "Former Packers scout revives Washington". Packers News. USA Today. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ Kring-Schreifels, Jake. "McCloughan Talks Athletic Past On 'Redskins Nation'". The Redskins Blog. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
- ^ Kring-Schreifels, Jake. "Fan Finds Scot McCloughan Baseball Card". Redskins.com. Retrieved May 1, 2016.
- ^ "Scot McCloughan". Baseball Reference. Retrieved April 29, 2015.
- ^ Kring-Schreifels, Jake. "Redskins' New GM Scot McCloughan Has An Athletic Resume". The Redskins Blog. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ Kevin Lynch (February 3, 2005). "49ers' pieces in place / With McCloughan as personnel chief, structure is set". SFGate. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- ^ "Niners' Nolan: 'I will remain the one voice'". San Francisco Examiner. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ White, David. "49ers push McCloughan out as GM, sources say". SFGate.com. Retrieved January 8, 2015.
- ^ "Seahawks hire McCloughan as Senior Personnel Executive". Seahawks.com. Retrieved May 2, 2016.
- ^ John Breech (April 24, 2014). "Seahawks lose key executive Scot McCloughan to resignation". CBSSports.com. Retrieved January 6, 2015.
- NFL.com. Retrieved January 7, 2015.
- ^ Keim, John (March 10, 2017). "Scot McCloughan fired as Redskins' general manager after two years". ESPN. Retrieved March 10, 2017.
- ^ Patra, Kevin. "Scot McCloughan back to running a scouting service". NFL.com. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ^ Labbe, Dan (February 4, 2018). "Scot McCloughan joins Browns staff as consultant for draft". Cleveland.com. Retrieved February 4, 2018.
- ^ Kempski, Jimmy (January 22, 2020). "Sources: Former GM Scot McCloughan has been Eagles consultant for over three years". PhillyVoice.com. Retrieved February 15, 2020.