Bills to hire Texans’ Matt Bazirgan

After seeing assistant general manager Joe Schoen become the New York Giants’ GM, the Buffalo Bills recently lost executive Dennis Hickey to the Giants as well. Amid the subtractions, Buffalo added to its front office this week.

The Bills are hiring Texans co-assistant director of player personnel Matt Bazirgan, according to Aaron Wilson of ProFootballNetwork.com.

Bazirgan spent four years with the Texans. He will join the Bills as a senior personnel executive. He will reunite with ex-Texans GM Brian Gaine, who has worked on Brandon Beane‘s Bills staff since 2019.

A Jets executive for nearly 15 years, Bazirgan joined the Texans’ front office shortly after the 2018 draft. This move came ahead of a turbulent period for the Texans, who soon pivoted to an operation led by Bill O’Brien and Jack Easterby. The Texans fired Gaine barely a year into his GM tenure, and while Bazirgan stayed on under current GM Nick Caserio for over a year, he will rejoin his former boss in Buffalo.

Bazirgan, who interviewed for the Texans’ GM job late in 2020, worked in a leadership role with the team’s college and pro scouting departments during his four years in Houston. He worked with the Jets for 14 years and rose to a college scouting director post with the AFC East franchise.