Darren Mougey’s football journey is quite a story.
He played quarterback in high school and then attended San Diego State. After two years at the college level as a QB, Mougey converted to wide receiver. He went on to catch 66 passes for 805 yards and six touchdowns in his final two seasons with the Aztecs.
Mougey then went undrafted in 2009 and signed with the Atlanta Falcons as a college free agent. After failing to make Atlanta’s active roster, Mougey went to training camp with the Arizona Cardinals in 2010, but he didn’t make their 53-man roster, either.
Mougey was then out of football for a year before joining the Denver Broncos as a scouting intern in 2012. He quickly worked his way up from there, going from intern to personnel/scouting assistant to college/pro personnel scout to area scout to assistant director of college scouting to director of player personnel to assistant general manager, a role he held from 2022-2024.
Mougey has now received yet another promotion, this time with the New York Jets as their newly-appointed general manager. Only 39 years old, Mougey is still relatively early in his football career, but his resume is already an impressive account of a scout working his way to the top.
