Canadian Catherine Raiche continues to climb the ladder towards becoming the NFL's first female general manager. The Cleveland Browns named the 33-year-old Montreal native as their assistant GM and vice-president of football operations Thursday.
Raiche had served as the Philadelphia Eagles vice-president of football operations, a position she'd been promoted to before the 2021 season.
Raiche joined the Eagles in 2019 as the NFL club's football operations coordinator. Raiche began her pro football career as an intern with the CFL's Montreal Alouettes in 2015.
She was promoted to coordinator of football administration before becoming the club's assistant GM in 2017. The <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Browns?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#Browns</a> officially announce that Glenn Cook and Catherine Raiche are their new assistant GMs under Andrew Berry, with Raiche becoming the highest-ranking female football executive in the NFL. <a href="https://t.co/AMsTekAp5n">https://t.co/AMsTekAp5n</a> She became the first woman to become a personnel executive post in the CFL since Jo-Anne Polak was hired as the Ottawa Rough Riders GM before the '89 season.