The Houston Texans have hired the search firm Korn Ferry, led by Jed Hughes, to cut down the pool of candidates for the team's general manager job. Around 4-6 names are expected to emerge as possibilities. *State of the Texans ran down the early names HERE
There will be a four-person committee to make the hire of the next general manager: team owner Bob McNair, vice chairman and COO Call McNair, head coach Bill O’Brien, and team president Jamey Rootes.
"I would hope in a couple of weeks, two or three weeks, we ought to have our person in place," Bob McNair explained to Houston Fox 26s Mark Berman.
The process has started and reports have vice president of player personnel for the Buffalo Bills, Brian Gaine, slated as one of the first interviews to take place.
Also, the Texans will work on signing O’Brien to an extension after the organization wraps up the general manager search. O’Brien is expected to sign a multi-year extension soon after the new general manager has signed on the dotted line.
"We're going to address that right after we deal with hiring the GM,” McNair continued. “I think that we'll work something out that we're all happy with."
McNair has made it clear that the new general manager will be able to bring in a couple of his own guys but they are not letting a house cleaning of the football operations to take place.
McNair also lined out the job duties of the new general manager.
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