{"id":503639,"date":"2026-01-09T11:50:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503639\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T11:50:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T11:50:19","slug":"falcons-interview-brandt-tilis-for-president-of-football-position","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/503639\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcons interview Brandt Tilis for president of football position"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Current role:<\/strong> Tilis joined the Carolina Panthers in 2024 as their executive vice president of football operations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why he&#8217;s a candidate:<\/strong> Tilis is best known for his financial savvy. As his resume highlights illustrate, Tilis&#8217; expertise is in salary cap management and evaluation \u2014 something he has done to noted success. Tilis was <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.panthers.com\/rover-2024\/brandt-tilis-evp-announcement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the lead negotiator of the Patrick Mahomes contract<\/a>, helping to create a framework that allowed them to sign their MVP quarterback to a 10-year deal.<\/p>\n<p>Since joining the Panthers, Tilis has played a role in creating cap stability while improving roster health and talent. The Panthers were major players in the free agency market in 2025. They made Jaycee Horn the highest-paid defensive back in history and beefed up their defense by signing defensive tackles Bobby Brown III and Tershawn Wharton as well as safety Tre&#8217;von Moehrig. Even with big-time signings and extensions, the Panthers are still in good cap health. They are projected to have just under $30 million in cap space in 2026, according to <a class=\"nfl-o-cta--link nfl-o-cta--underline\" href=\"https:\/\/overthecap.com\/salary-cap-space\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OverTheCap.com<\/a>. Tilis has been a key part of the recent success for Carolina, making him a candidate teams could eye this offseason as the Panthers make their first playoff appearance since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Current role: Tilis joined the Carolina Panthers in 2024 as their executive vice president of football operations. Why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":503640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[225801,8996,50,225802,62,225803,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-503639","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-brandt-tilis","9":"tag-carolina-panthers","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-president-of-football","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-tori-mcelhaney","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-unitedstates","16":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115864995497978823","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}