| Brandon Sosna | |
| Current Team: | Washington Commanders |
| Position: | Senior vice president of football operations |
| Birth Place: | Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. |
| High School: | Sycamore (Cincinnati) |
| College: | Penn (2011–2015) |
Brandon Sosna (born) is an American sports administrator and executive who is the senior vice president of football operations for the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He leads contract negotiations for the team and oversees the analytics and health departments. Sosna has also worked as a chief of staff and assistant athletic director for the NCAA's Cincinnati Bearcats and USC Trojans and as an administrator for the NFL's Cleveland Browns and Detroit Lions.
He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Sycamore High School, where he coached students in a school-wide basketball league formed by himself.[1] During his summer vacations, Sosna worked as volunteer coach at Cincinnati Bearcats basketball camps.[1] He enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania School of Arts and Sciences in 2011 and graduated with a bachelor's degree in political science in 2015.[1]
Shortly after graduation, Sosna was hired in the marketing department of the Cincinnati Bearcats athletic program.[1] He was promoted to chief of staff in 2016 at the age of 23.[1] The following year, he joined the NFL's Cleveland Browns as an assistant in football administration after being interested working with Browns executives Sashi Brown and Paul DePodesta.[1] There, Sosna assisted in managing the salary cap, negotiating contracts, and developing free agent evaluations.[1] He was rehired by the Bearcats as chief revenue officer and senior associate athletic director in February 2019, overseeing ticket sales, media relations, and marketing under athletic director Mike Bohn.[2] [3]
Sosna followed Bohn to the USC Trojans in December 2019 and worked as their chief of staff and executive senior associate athletic director focusing on their football program,[1] where he was considered key in the hiring of head coach Lincoln Riley in 2021.[4] [5] Sosna was hired by the NFL's Detroit Lions in July 2022 as senior director of football administration, serving as their primary contract negotiator.[4] [6] He left in May 2024 to join the NFL's Washington Commanders as senior vice president of football operations, handling contracts in addition to leading the team's analytics and football administration departments.[7] [8]
Sosna is Jewish.[9] He participated in the 2010 March of the Living trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp and co-founded an nonprofit organization in high school known as Project 6 Million that raised awareness for victims of the Holocaust.[10] [11] Sosna served as president of Penn's Zeta Beta Tau fraternity chapter.[12] He was named to the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work as chief revenue officer with the Bearcats.[3]