The veteran executive will be joining the University of Nebraska.
Patrick Stewart, the New England Patriots’ pro personnel director, will not be back with the organization in 2025. According to a report by Pete Thamel of ESPN, he has been hired as general manager at the University of Nebraska.
Stewart spent the last two seasons in New England. He re-joined the club during the 2023 offseason to serve as a senior personnel advisor under Bill Belichick. Following the departures of Belichick and pro scouting director Steve Cargile, he was installed as the Patriots’ director of pro personnel for the 2024 season.
Stewart previously had been with the team between 2007 and 2017. He first joined as a scouting assistant and also worked as a pro scout and are scout for the team.
Between 2018 and 2022, he spent time with the Philadelphia Eagles and Carolina Panthers.
The news of Stewart’s departure were reported just hours after Patriots executive vice president of player personnel Eliot Wolf was critical about how the team conducted its free agency research last year. Wolf claimed that “some of the information that we got on some of the players wasn’t as thorough as it needed to be” during a press conference at the NFL Scouting Combine on Wednesday.
How the Patriots will fill Stewart’s role remains to be seen. They hired Ryan Cowden — a long-time colleague of new head coach Mike Vrabel — as vice president of player personnel earlier this offseason and also have assistant director of pro personnel Sam Fioroni on staff.