HOUSTON – The Texans have promoted personnel department executives James Liipfert and Chris Blanco to assistant general manager positions, according to league sources.
Liipfert was previously the executive director of player personnel and the assistant director of personnel/director of college scouting.
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Liipfert previously worked for the Patriots for the past nine years, spending three years as a national scout before being hired as the Texans’ director of college scouting.
Initially hired by New England as a scouting assistant in 2009, Liipfert was an area scout for the Patriots for five years.
He was hired after finishing up a college football career at Georgia Tech, where he was a three-year letterman at linebacker and on special teams after walking on and earning a scholarship.
The Georgia native was an all-state selection in high school where he played fullback and linebacker. He was named Region Player of the Year.
Blanco was the assistant director of player personnel for the Texans. He was previously the Minnesota Vikings’ director of pro personnel and assistant director of college scouting.
He began his time with the Texans as a pro scout. He was a starting cornerback at Darmouth and earned a law degree from Iowa where he worked as a recruiting assistant for the football team.
The Texans’ personnel department, led by general manager Nick Caserio, includes co-college scouting directors John Ritcher and Mozique McCurtis, director of pro personnel D.J. Debick and director of college scouting operations Tom Hayden, senior personnel executive/assistant director of pro scouting Steve Cargile and national scouts Bailee Brown and Bradley Mathews.
Aaron Wilson is a Texans and NFL reporter for KPRC 2 and click2houston.com.
