The Bengals introduced their most experienced player personnel staff ever when they elevated the three most experienced scouts in their building to assistant general manager.
Director of player personnel Duke Tobin is keeping his title, and former directors of scouting Steven Radicevic and Mike Potts, along with former senior personnel executive Trey Brown, are pretty much keeping their job descriptions intact.
It's those job descriptions that got them the new titles. From pro work, college scouting, contract negotiations, and everything in between, Tobin says the trio's versatility in all phases of the job make them valuable right-handed men.
"Steve, Mike and Trey work in all areas of the club and assist me in every aspect," Tobin says. "They're highly capable. They're impactful in all areas of personnel. We felt like this title fit their role with us."
Also getting a new title is long-time scout Andrew Johnson. Johnson, who has been with the club for a decade primarily scouting the Northeast, moves from scout to scouting executive. He remains in his area, but also has a diverse background in organizing day-to-day operations of the department.
The Bengals' new scouts, Josh Hinch and Tyler Ramsey, bring nearly a combined 30 years of the mix of pro and college scouting Tobin covets.
Ramsey was a long-time West Coast scout for the Seahawks before becoming an assistant director of pro personnel with the Panthers. Hinch is coming off a four-year stretch in New England where he worked on the pro and college sides and, like Brown, has been the top football executive on teams in the XFL and AAF.
"I like to keep all of our guys fresh on both the college and the pro side because I think that gives them that breadth and it gives them the opportunity to know what a college player would be like in the NFL," Tobin says. "You have to be current in both pro scouting and college scouting to be truly effective in either, and our guys do that.
"They're seasoned guys who understand the NFL. They understand college talent, they know player value, and they know how to put a value to a player. Whether it's in the draft or whether it's in free agency, or whether it's on our own team."
Tobin also created a title when he hired Trey LaBounty as a scouting research analyst. LaBounty, who is in his second NFL season, spent last year doing a similar job in Buffalo after being a football analytics intern at his alma mater of Stanford.
A thumbnail look at the Bengals' revamped personnel department.
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STEVEN RADICEVIC
Assistant General Manager
Radicevic heads into his 14th season in the NFL, all with the Bengals, and he'll continue to oversee veteran free agency and pro scouting, as well as negotiate contracts after setting values and collaborating with coaches on scheme fits.
He also maintains a ready list of available free agents and facilitates player workouts in a role that also includes managing trade calls and team needs during the season while scouting colleges nationally and helping set the draft board.
After a playing career at UCLA cut short by injury, Radicevic stayed with the Bruins in 2008 as assistant director of football operations before serving as director of football operations from 2009-2012.
In addition to organizing camps and clinics, managing the budget and recruiting, supervising support and student staff, he also represented the head coach in departmental matters. Radicevic not only worked as the pro liaison, he was also the liaison for compliance, development, marketing, sports information, travel, game management.
2003-2005: Defensive tackle at University of California at Davis
2005-2007: Defensive tackle at UCLA
2008: Assistant Director of Football Operations at UCLA
2009-2012: Director of Football Operations at UCLA
2012-2015: Scout with Bengals
2015-2018: Personnel Executive with Bengals
2018-2025: Director of Scouting (Pro) with Bengals
MIKE POTTS
Assistant General Manager
Potts enters his 11th season with the Bengals and 15th year in NFL player personnel and continues to take a leading role in all aspects of the club's roster building. Potts manages personnel staff while overseeing the organization and implementation of the draft process and college scouting. He evaluates top prospects nationally, as well as develops the draft board and facilitates undrafted free agency.
He'll continue pro personnel evaluations and is involved in strategy decisions concerning weekly roster management, player acquisition, and unrestricted free agency. Potts also takes part in player contract valuation, salary cap allocation, player retention and negotiation efforts. He also collaborates with the Bengals analytics and football research/technology team to develop improvements and make the personnel operations more efficient and productive.
AT A GLANCE
2003-2007: Quarterback at William & Mary
2008: Quarterback with Pittsburgh Steelers
2008-2011: Quarterback in Arena Football League
2011-2012: Scouting Assistant with Falcons
2013-2014: Area Scout with Falcons
2015-2017: Personnel Executive with Bengals
2018-2025: Scouting Director (College) with Bengals
TREY BROWN
Assistant General Manager
Entering his fifth season with the Bengals and 16th in pro football, Brown is involved in all roster decisions and trades, as well as serving as a contract negotiator. An experienced college and pro scouting evaluator who has been a part of three Super Bowl appearances, Brown provides player evaluations nationally and is a key decision maker during the draft and free agency, as well as in structuring player contracts.
Prior to the Bengals, Brown was a top executive in the AAF and XFL as Director of Player Personnel with the St. Louis Battlehawks (2019) and Executive Vice President of Football Operations for the Birmingham Iron (2018). Brown managed all aspects of the clubs' football operations while overseeing the 52-man roster, negotiating all contracts with players and agents, and directing all phases of player acquisition.
Brown joined the Eagles in 2013 as the West Coast Area Scout and was promoted to Assistant Director of College Scouting in 2015 and Director of College Scouting in 2016. In those roles, Brown oversaw the Eagles' college scouting department. He was named Player Personnel Executive College/Pro with the Eagles in 2017 in a season the Eagles won the Super Bowl.
Brown started his NFL career with the Patriots as a scouting assistant in 2010 and was promoted to West Coast Area Scout in 2011.
AT A GLANCE
2004-2007: Cornerback, UCLA. Walter Camp All-American and Jim Thorpe Award semifinalist in 2007
2008: Cornerback at Bears training camp
2010: Scouting Assistant with Patriots
2011-2012: West Coast Area Scout with Patriots
2013-2014: West Coast Area Scout with Eagles
2015: Assistant Director of College Scouting with Eagles
2016: Director of College Scouting with Eagles
2017-2018: Player Personnel Executive College/Pro with Eagles
2018- 2019: Executive Vice President of Football Operations with Birmingham Iron of AAF
2019-2020: Director of Player Personnel with St. Louis Battlehawks of XFL
2021: Scout with Bengals
2022-2025: Senior Personnel Executive with Bengals
ANDREW JOHNSON
Scouting Executive
Johnson heads into his tenth NFL season, all with the Bengals, in a personnel career that began as a scouting intern and has spanned a plethora of roles.
On the college side, Johnson covers the Northeast along with parts of the Mid-Atlantic and Mid-West. In addition to his college duties, Johnson evaluates a number of NFL teams during the preseason in preparation for final cuts, as well as certain positions in the lead up to veteran free agency in March. He's also the point person covering other pro leagues, such as the CFL and XFL.
During his rise from intern to scouting executive, Johnson handled a variety of logistical assignments early in his career, ranging from organizing workouts for free agents, prospect visits leading up to the draft, and the workout of local high school and college prospects before the draft. He also advanced scouted opponents for three seasons.
AT A GLANCE
2012-2015: Tight end at Cornell
2016: Scouting intern with Bengals
2016-18: Scouting assistant with Bengals
2018-25: Scout with Bengals
TYLER RAMSEY
Scout
Ramsey is in his 16th year of NFL scouting and first with the Bengals, where his college responsibilities are focused on the Western part of the country, as well as his current home state of North Carolina. The West is where he spent his nine years as an area scout during his dozen years with the Seahawks.
In Cincinnati, Ramsey also has responsibility for six NFL teams, and charts their rosters as part of player acquisition during the season while assisting in day-to-day operations.
Ramsey arrives from Carolina, where he was the Panthers' Assistant Director of Pro Player Personnel from 2022-23. In 2021, he was a National Scout for the Panthers with the responsibility for all draftable players west of the Mississippi River.
He began his career in Seattle in 2009, rising from three seasons as a Scouting Assistant to Area Scout in the West, where he celebrated Seattle winning Super Bowl XLVIII.
AT A GLANCE
2004-2008: University of Washington
2009-12: Pro and college Personnel Assistant with Seahawks
2012-2021: Area Scout with Seahawks
2021-2022: National Scout with Panthers
2022-24: Assistant Director of Pro Personnel with Panthers
2024: Scout With Reese's Senior Bowl
JOSH HINCH
Scout
Hinch heads into his first season with the Bengals and 12th in the pros. He oversees a handful of NFL teams in pro scouting and is responsible for several southern regions in college scouting while assisting with day-to-day operations.
He comes from the Patriots, where he worked for four years in pro and college personnel. He advanced regular season and potential playoff opponents, as well as administering roster management for assigned non-opponents and scouting evaluations of preseason and free agency.
Before his stint in New England, Hinch ran all football operations for teams in two pro leagues as the director of player personnel for the XFL's Tampa Bay Vipers and AAF's Orlando Apollos.
AT A GLANCE
2010-12: Running back at South Carolina
2012-2013: Running backs coach/intramural coordinator at SUNY Maritime College
2014: Strength and conditioning intern at South Carolina
2014-2015: Recruiting assistant/special teams quality control at Northwestern
2015-2018: Scouting assistant with Buccaneers
2018-2019: Director of player personnel for AAF's Orlando Apollos
2019-2020: Director of player personnel for XFL's Tampa Bay Vipers
2021-2022: Pro scout with Patriots
2022-2025: Southeast Area Scout with Patriots
TREY LABOUNTY
Scouting Research Analyst
LaBounty begins his second year in the NFL and first with the Bengals in a new position focused on supporting the personnel department in all areas of research and analytics, as well as conducting traditional scouting as needed.
He broke into the league last year as a Football Analytics Intern with the Bills working from a data and research perspective on an array of projects in coaching, scouting, football administration and sports performance. Before that Buffalo stint, LaBounty interned in the Stanford football office looking into how research and analytics can improve recruiting.
AT A GLANCE
2018-2021: Defensive Lineman at Stanford
2022-2023: Tight End at Miami University, where he received Master's in Sport Analytics
2023-24: Received Master's in Management Science and Engineering with a focus in Computational Social Science from Stanford
2024: Football Analytics Intern with the Bills
