Omar Khan General Manager of Steelers, Just Announced his Departure
The Texans interview Omar Khan, a front office executive for the Steelers, to be general manager.
The Houston Texans are still doing their research in an effort to appoint the fifth general manager in team history.
The team made the announcement on Monday night that they had finished speaking with Omar Khan, the vice president of football and business administration for the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Khan started working for the Steelers in 2001, when he was hired as the coordinator of football administration. He was elevated to the position of director of football administration in 2011. Khan assumed leadership in his present role in 2016.
Before joining the Steelers, Khan was employed by the New Orleans Saints from 1997 to 2001. From 2000 to 2001, he served as director of football administration under Mickey Loomis, where he worked in the football operations department.
It is difficult to dispute Khan’s accomplishments with the Steelers: two Super Bowl victories, three Super Bowl berths, six trips to the AFC Championship Game, ten AFC North championships, and thirteen postseason appearances. Khan’s appointment as general manager would be worthwhile even if the Texans could just replicate a small percentage of that success—one successful run with Deshaun Watson at quarterback.
After graduating from nearby Metarie, Louisiana’s Archbishop Rummel High School, Khan is a native of New Orleans. In addition, he earned a degree in sports management from Tulane.
Emmanuel Moseley was placed on injured reserve last season after playing just two defensive snaps due to an ACL tear. In 2024, the Detroit Lions are counting on the seasoned cornerback to produce more.
A source informed the Free Press that Moseley and the Lions had reached an agreement on a new one-year contract on Tuesday.
When Moseley was recovering from a ruptured left ACL he sustained in 2022 while playing with the San Francisco 49ers, he signed a one-year free agent contract with the Lions last spring. Following a setback in his recuperation during the summer, he missed the entire training camp. In October, during his debut against the Carolina Panthers, he tore his right ACL.
After spending almost $5 million on the team throughout his recuperation, Moseley made a commitment in November to make a comeback.
“God puts his toughest difficulties to the ones that can handle it, but it’s absolutely not fun to go through,” Moseley told the Free Press. “One thing about me is that I know I can and will manage it. I will most certainly return.”
With the San Francisco 49ers for five seasons, Moseley has started 46 games as a part-time player and totaled four interceptions.
Along with C.J. Gardner-Johnson and cornerback Cam Sutton, he was one of the three important free agents the Lions signed to bolster their secondary last spring, but he was never well enough to contribute significantly.
After being 27th in the league in pass defense last season, the Lions are in need of additional cornerback assistance this spring.
The only other cornerbacks with contracts right now are Sutton and Craig James, who inked a futures agreement in January; Chase Lucas is an exclusive rights free agent.
Jerry Jacobs and Khalil Dorsey are restricted free agents, while Kindle Vildor, who finished the previous season as the starter opposite Sutton, will be available as an unrestricted free agent next week.
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The Lions have signed Moseley as their fourth free agent in advance of free agency. Last month, they re-signed tight end Shane Zylstra, an exclusive rights free agent, and linebacker Michael Badgley to one-year contracts, the richest contract ever for a core member of the special teams.
