Browns hire former Lions GM Bob Quinn as senior consultant

The Browns hired former Lions GM Bob Quinn as a senior consultant (Twitter link via NFL.com’s Ian Rapoport). Quinn will act as a “sounding board” for GM Andrew Berry as he returns to football for the first time since November of last year.

Quinn, a longtime scout/exec for the Patriots, was hired as the Lions’ GM in January 2016. After inheriting Jim Caldwell, he made his first official head-coaching hire in Matt Patricia.

The Lions fired Quinn and Patricia shortly after their blowout Thanksgiving loss. It was a trying year for the Lions — they missed the playoffs for a fourth straight season and just dropped back-to-back games against the Panthers and Texans in embarrassing fashion. In the (almost) three years leading up to Quinn’s firing, they posted a 13-29-1 record.

Despite all of that, some believed that Quinn would still garner serious consideration in the early 2021 GM cycle. That didn’t happen, so he’ll spend the year with the Browns’ front office.