{"id":620175,"date":"2026-05-03T00:32:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-03T00:32:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-03T00:32:08","slug":"report-browns-hire-trent-baalke-in-a-consultant-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/620175\/","title":{"rendered":"Report: Browns hire Trent Baalke in a consultant role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Browns have hired longtime NFL executive Trent Baalke in a \u201cconsultant-like capacity,\u201d Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports reports.<\/p>\n<p>The Jaguars fired Baalke as General Manager in the 2025 offseason, and he was out of the NFL last season. Baalke served in that role for four seasons in Jacksonville.<\/p>\n<p>He was also General Manager for the 49ers from 2011-16.<\/p>\n<p>During Baalke\u2019s tenure in Jacksonville, the Jaguars went 25-43 with head coaches Urban Meyer and Doug Pederson, along with interim coach Darrell Bevell.<\/p>\n<p>Baalke, 62, began his NFL run in 1998 as a scout for the Jets. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to his time with the 49ers and Jaguars, Baalke has also worked for the Commanders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Browns have hired longtime NFL executive Trent Baalke in a \u201cconsultant-like capacity,\u201d Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":620176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-620175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=620175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/620176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}