Two more candidates for Washington’s GM job surfaced Thursday. The team is expected to interview Chargers executive JoJo Wooden, according to NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport, who adds Washington also submitted an interview request to Falcons exec Nick Polk (Twitter links).
After the Washington GM job sat vacant for a year, the team is moving ahead with several candidates for the position. These two join ex-GMs Marty Hurney, Martin Mayhew and Rick Smith, along with Titans staffer Ryan Cowden, in Washington’s search so far.
Wooden serves as the Chargers’ director of player personnel and has been with the franchise since Tom Telesco's 2013 arrival. A Syracuse alumnus, Wooden also spent 16 seasons with the Jets, beginning under Bill Parcells in the late 1990s, and worked as Gang Green’s assistant player personnel director for six seasons prior to a relocation to San Diego.
Polk has been the Falcons’ director of football operations for 11 years, but with the Falcons transitioning to perhaps Terry Fontenot at GM, Thomas Dimitroff-era execs’ roles certainly stand to be in flux. However, Polk has been with the Falcons for multiple GM regimes, beginning with the team prior to Dimitroff’s arrival.
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