Brandon Sosna

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). Sosna leads contract negotiations for the team and oversees the analytics and health departments. He 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.

Early life Sosna was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Sycamore High School, where he coached students in a school-wide basketball league formed by himself. During his summer vacations, Sosna worked as volunteer coach at Cincinnati Bearcats basketball camps.

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, Sosna was hired by the NFL's Detroit Lions in July 2022 as the senior director of football administration, serving as their primary contract negotiator. He left in May 2024 to join the NFL's Washington Commanders as the senior vice president of football operations, handling contracts in addition to leading their analytics and football administration departments.

Personal life Sosna is the youngest of six siblings. Sosna is Jewish; his paternal and maternal grandparents were Holocaust survivors and he participated in the 2010 March of the Living trip to the Auschwitz concentration camp. He served as president of Penn's Zeta Beta Tau fraternity chapter. He was listed on the 2020 Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work as the chief revenue officer for the Bearcats.