Earlier this week, we noticed stories that the Falcons promoted Kyle Smith and Ryan Tempo, two key members of the entrance workplace introduced in by common supervisor Terry Fontenot. With these promotions, you’d count on the crew to be seeking to fill positions, they usually have.

Per the crew’s web site, they’ve added Brian Zeches to fill the position of coordinator of participant personnel. It’s a well-recognized face for Kyle Smith, who overlapped with Zeches in Washington, the place he was a personnel coordinator and a professional scout for seven years. Over the previous two seasons, Zeches was a west space scout for the Senior Bowl, and his work there and in Washington clearly caught Atlanta’s eye. It’s a sign of Smith’s affect within the entrance workplace—which shouldn’t be a shock given his promotion to assistant common supervisor—and brings in a seasoned scout from outdoors the group.

The crew additionally shuffled some scouting jobs round, per the crew’s report:

Along with these strikes, former participant personnel coordinator Shelly Harvey is now an space scout and BLESTO scout Ben Martinez strikes into the professional division as a professional scout.

Scouting assistants James McClintok and Hakeem Smith are transferring into new roles as nicely. McClintok will transfer into Martinez’ former position as BLESTO scout whereas Smith can be an assistant professional scout.

Congratulations to these promoted scouts and to Zeches, and should they additional strengthen a Falcons entrance workplace and scouting operation that has been busily including expertise over the previous couple of seasons.