Cleveland Browns: Could Reggie McKenzie join the Browns?

The Raiders fired Reggie McKenzie who spent time with John Dorsey while with the Green Bay Packers. Could the two reunite in the Cleveland Browns front office?

From 1994 through 2011, Reggie McKenzie served in some capacity with the Green Bay Packers. He began as a scout before working all the way up to the position of director of football operations. During that time, he formed a good relationship with current Cleveland Browns general manager John Dorsey.

Dorsey and McKenzie were both former linebackers who found their way to the Packers front office. Like McKenzie, Dorsey started as a scout and moved up to director of football operations, but he only got to that role after McKenzie took the general manager job with the Oakland Raiders.

After serving in that role since 2012, McKenzie was relieved of his duties on Monday as Oakland is seemingly giving all control of their team to head coach Jon Gruden. Now in need of a job, there’s a shot McKenzie could again join with Dorsey — as speculated by Kyle Kelly of the Browns Wire.

As Kelly points out, other members of the same front office have joined Cleveland as both assistant GM Elliot Wolf as well vice president of player personnel Alonzo Highsmith were in Green Bay with Dorsey.

McKenzie didn’t work with Highsmith, but he did spend time with both Wolf and Dorsey and there is a precedent as Dorsey did employ Scot McCloughan as a draft consultant last season.

That could be something they bring McKenzie in for, or it could also be feasible to see him in a more permanent role in the Browns front office. With the staff they have assembled, it’s obvious the Browns are happy with how their shot callers worked together in Green Bay.

It wouldn’t be surprising to see them add one more name to that list. It also wouldn’t be surprising to see them continuing to look at former Packers even beyond McKenzie with Mike McCarthy sitting there needing a new head coaching job.