The New England Patriots front office is a bit of a mess at the moment, with Eliot Wolf currently serving as the de facto General Manager and Director of Scouting after head coach and pseudo-GM Bill Belichick is no longer on the sidelines after decades of leading the franchise.
There was never an official general manager with Belichick on staff, and now the front office is trying to piece things together, although one Buffalo Bills executive has declined to interview for the position.
NBC Sports’ Albert Breer reported that Bills’ Director of Player Personnel Terrance Gray was invited to interview for New England’s primary football executive position, but declined likely because Wolf is expected to be the man who will ultimately land the gig.
Wolf led the team through free agency and the draft process and has yet to officially be named the permanent general manager, as the team must still satisfy the Rooney Rule and go through a full interview process.
Wolf has mentioned that running this ship has been and is going to continue to be a collaborative effort, though he was the one who ultimately made the final decisions during the draft and was the man behind the Drake Maye selection.
It would be a strange move to let Wolf go through this whole process and make such impactful franchise-altering decisions like drafting Maye and then not give him the job.
