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Dennis Dillon
Sporting News
Few NFL personnel men have been more successful in recent years than Baltimore's Eric DeCosta. So it makes perfectly good sense that Ravens ownership would want to retain him.
To that end, the Ravens worked out a new contract that gives DeCosta incentive to stay as the eventual successor to general manager Ozzie Newsome, according to The Baltimore Sun.
"It's not enough to stop him from leaving but enough to encourage him to stay," Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti told the newspaper. "I think it would take a perfect job in the perfect city in order for Eric to say he's not willing to be Ozzie's successor."
DeCosta, who turns 40 on April 10, would have to think twice about leaving the Ravens to take a general manager's job with another team. Former Ravens personnel men Phil Savage and George Kokinis both left Baltimore to become general manager of the Browns and were subsequently fired.
DeCosta joined the Ravens in an entry-level position in 1996 and has moved up the personnel ladder. He has been an area scout, the director of college scouting and, since 2009, the director of player personnel. He works closely with Newsome in overseeing both the college and pro scouting departments.
Among the players Baltimore has drafted in the first round during DeCosta's time as scouting director were linebacker Terrell Suggs, defensive tackle Haloti Ngata, running back Ray Rice and quarterback Joe Flacco. Suggs, Ngata and Rice have a combined seven Pro Bowl selections.
Sporting News
Few NFL personnel men have been more successful in recent years than Baltimore's Eric DeCosta. So it makes perfectly good sense that Ravens ownership would want to retain him.
To that end, the Ravens worked out a new contract that gives DeCosta incentive to stay as the eventual successor to general manager Ozzie Newsome, according to The Baltimore Sun.
"It's not enough to stop him from leaving but enough to encourage him to stay," Ravens owner Steve Bisciotti told the newspaper. "I think it would take a perfect job in the perfect city in order for Eric to say he's not willing to be Ozzie's successor."
DeCosta, who turns 40 on April 10, would have to think twice about leaving the Ravens to take a general manager's job with another team. Former Ravens personnel men Phil Savage and George Kokinis both left Baltimore to become general manager of the Browns and were subsequently fired.
DeCosta joined the Ravens in an entry-level position in 1996 and has moved up the personnel ladder. He has been an area scout, the director of college scouting and, since 2009, the director of player personnel. He works closely with Newsome in overseeing both the college and pro scouting departments.
Among the players Baltimore has drafted in the first round during DeCosta's time as scouting director were linebacker Terrell Suggs, defensive tackle Haloti Ngata, running back Ray Rice and quarterback Joe Flacco. Suggs, Ngata and Rice have a combined seven Pro Bowl selections.
