Caserio, Patriots agree to extension
The Patriots have gotten a head start on free agency.
The Pats agreed to a multiyear contract extension with director of player personnel Nick Caserio on Tuesday, a league source confirmed to the Herald. Caserio, the highest-ranking member of the team’s personnel department, was in the final year of his contract. The 44-yearold executive has been the team’s director of player personnel since 2008 and an integral part of the Patriots’ dynasty.
Caserio fills several roles within the organization, including personnel evaluation, game-day operations and hands-on coaching during practices. The team appeared to be in danger of losing him in June, when the Texans requested to interview him for their vacant general manager position. However, language in Caserio’s contract prevented him from interviewing, and Houston later handed coach Bill O’Brien the title of general manager.
Bill Belichick addressed Caserio’s contributions and impact on the organization in November.
“He has a vast amount of experience and talent in a number of different areas,” Belichick said. “So, dependent on what our needs are — and that could be a little bit week-to-week, but I’d say it’s probably a little more season-to-season — that he can do so many different things and do them well, that we can utilize him in the areas where he’ll have the biggest impact and the most effect on positive results for our team. So, we’ve always done that. We continue to do it.
“He’s coached multiple positions, had multiple responsibilities in the personnel department. Continues to have a strong role in both areas, and sometimes it’s maybe a little more or a little less in one area or another to offset expanded duties on the other side. He’s also involved in a lot of contract things. So, it’s a pretty full plate. Sometimes it gets divided differently, but it’s usually full and sometimes spilling over the edge a little bit.”
Caserio joined the Patriots in 2001 and served as a scout, offensive assistant, receivers coach and director of pro personnel over the next seven years. Terms of his new deal have not been disclosed.