The Detroit Lions are adding a new executive to the front office. Per a report from Pete Thamel of ESPN, the Lions are hiring Brandon Sosna as the new senior director of football operations.
Sosna currently serves as the chief of staff for the USC Trojans football program. From Thamel’s report,
Sosna has operated as the No. 2 to USC athletic director Mike Bohn essentially since Bohn’s hiring late in 2019, including a promotion to executive senior associate athletic director. During that time, Bohn credited Sosna as the architect for the “brilliant” search for Lincoln Riley as head coach.
USC was aggressive in trying to retain Sosna, sources said, but the lure of a career in the NFL trumped anything the school could come up with.
He does have some NFL experience that helps explain the connection to the Lions. Sosna worked in the Cleveland Browns front office in 2017 and 2018 as a salary cap analyst under then-GM John Dorsey, who now serves as a senior assistant in the Lions front office.
