Reports from various Green Bay sources, including one from Jim Owczarski of Packers News, indicate the Cleveland Browns are poaching away Charles Walls from the Green Bay Packers’ scouting department. Walls will serve as a national scout for the Browns.
The move is a promotion for Walls, putting him in charge of a broader set of players than an area scout.
Walls has covered the Southwest region as an area scout since 2017. He has worked with the Packers since 2013, serving as a scouting intern and the team’s NFL Scouting Combine scout before heading out on the road. He also has some college coaching experience following the end of his playing career at Old Dominion, where Walls was part of the school’s first-ever football team in the late 2000s.
He joins the new front office staff under GM Andrew Berry. It’s fairly common for new regimes to make changes to the scouting department. Interestingly, Walls had strong ties to the former Browns regime headed by GM John Dorsey and VPs Eliot Wolf and Alonzo Highsmith, all of whom had extensive Packers backgrounds.
