After bringing him on as a consultant ahead of the 2020 NFL draft, the Seattle Seahawks have officially hired longtime league executive Alonzo Highsmith.
Highsmith is listed as a personnel executive on Seattle’s team website. His extensive experience in the NFL includes 19 years spent with the Green Bay Packers. He was promoted to senior personnel executive in 2012 and held that position until he left in 2018 to become the Browns’ vice president of player personnel.
Highsmith was let go by the Browns in January after the team hired Andrew Barry as their new general manager, and he was reunited with Seahawks general manager John Schneider in February as a consultant.
Highsmith and Schneider worked together in Green Bay for eight seasons from 2002-2009.
Highsmith’s long track record in the NFL goes back even further, as he played fullback in the league from 1987-1992 with the Houston Oilers, Dallas Cowboys and Tampa Bay Buccaneers before embarking on a brief career as a professional boxer, and eventually landing in Green Bay’s scouting department.
