Los Angeles Chargers hire Toronto's Assistant GM Stephon White as General Manager
D.J. Porter -- ESPN.com
Former San Diego Chargers general manager Tom Telesco foretold there would be a "new era in Chargers football" if the team wasn't successful this past season.
That new era has officially begun with the hiring of a new general manager, Stephon White.
The Chargers announced they have hired White, a member of the Toronto Huskies/Washington Redskins' organization since 2020 and the team's Executive Vice President and Assistant General Manager since 2023. White will be introduced by the Chargers at a press conference Wednesday afternoon.
Originally hired as a football operations intern for the Carolina Panthers back in 2013, White served as a coaching intern in 2014 before he was promoted to a scouting assistant and eventually a college scout himself for the remainder of Ron Rivera's tenure in Carolina. White was pivotal in the Panthers' scouting and eventual drafting of running back Christian McCaffrey.
When Rivera was fired by Carolina and hired in Washington, White followed Rivera to Washington where he was promoted to Assistant Director of College Scouting. When the entire football staff was blown up following the purchase and relocation of the Redskins franchise, White was one of the few personnel kept along with Doug Williams. White was then promoted in 2021 and has since served as the Director of Player Personnel.
White has served as the 'secondary' voice behind general manager Louis Riddick since 2021 in all 'personnel related' matters and is widely viewed as the architect behind the Huskies 2025 Super Bowl winning team.
White, 32, is the youngest known General Manager in NFL history and will now try to turn around a franchise that has won just seven games in the last two seasons and is tasked with finding a new head coach following the firing of Jason Garrett.