Ravens Announce Front Office Changes

The Ravens announced a litany of front office updates this week, with promotions in player personnel, operations, and analytics. Atop the player personnel department, Bobby Vega and Andrew Raphael were named assistant directors of player personnel. Joey Cleary moved into Raphael’s former position as the new director of college scouting, and Corey Frazier was promoted to director of pro personnel.

Vega started his NFL career with the Ravens as an intern in 2004. The next year, he began a 13-year stint with the Browns before returning to Baltimore as an east area scout in 2018. He was promoted to national scout in 2023 and named senior personnel executive last year. Raphael joined the team as a player personnel intern in 2013, after serving a season as the assistant recruiting coordinator at Boston College. After two years, he became a player personnel assistant before being elevated to southeast area scout the next year. Starting in 2021, he spent three years as a national scout and was promoted to director of college scouting two years ago.

Cleary now steps into his former boss’s role as he enters his 12th season with the team. Starting in Baltimore as a player personnel assistant in 2015, Cleary was promoted to area scout, working the northeast area (2019), west area (2020), and southeast area (2021-23). When Raphael was promoted to director of college scouting, Cleary was promoted just under him. Cleary now drops the “assistant” from his title as the new director of college scouting. Frazier also joined the team as a player personnel assistant, starting in 2017 after a scouting internship two years prior with the Broncos and work as an advanced scout at Vanderbilt in 2016. He became a pro scout for the Ravens in 2019 and returned to the pro side of things as assistant director of pro personnel in 2024 after three seasons as a west coast area scout.

Also, in the scouting department, player personnel assistants Joe Moreno and TJ Ajibola have been promoted to northeast area scout and pro scout, respectively. Moreno started at the collegiate level as a recruiting intern at Harvard and Stanford before arriving as a player personnel graduate assistant at Auburn in 2019. He left to serve three years as director of player personnel at Southern Miss before joining the Ravens in 2024. Ajibola’s path to a promotion was a bit slower. He’s finally earned a new title after joining the team as a player personnel assistant in 2019. Lastly, after it was announced that former Raiders senior director of player personnel JoJo Wooden would join the Ravens as a front office consultant, the team’s latest disclosure appears to officially name him as a west coast area scout.

In operations, Nick Matteo has been promoted from vice president of football administration to vice president of football operations and Sophie Cortese has been elevated from football administration/salary cap analyst to assistant director of football administration. Before arriving in Baltimore, Matteo worked nine years with the NFL Management Council, eventually getting promoted to senior director of labor operations for the league. He joined the Ravens in his former role in 2019 and oversaw day-to-day salary cap management and all roster transactions for the past seven years. After working as an offensive analyst at Colby University, Cortese joined the Ravens as an analytics players personnel training camp intern in 2021and was promoted to her prior position in 2023.

Lastly, in analytics, David McDonald has been promoted from vice president of research and development to vice president of football science and David Kang from quantitative analyst to senior data scientist. McDonald arrived in Baltimore after a five-year stint as a football systems developer for the Falcons in 2010. He spent five years as the Ravens director of research and development before earning the VP title. Kang only joined the team last year in his previous role before earning this offseason promotion.