adminThe Cleveland Browns made Catherine Hickman their Assistant General Manager, making her the highest-ranking female executive in NFL team operations. At just 35 years old, this Canadian lawyer with no playing experience now helps run one of America’s most storied football franchises. Critics are asking hard questions about how someone gets this far this fast in the ultimate man’s game.
Hickman started as a lawyer in Canada before jumping into football with the Montreal Alouettes. She bounced around from team to team, working her way up through various front office jobs. Her resume shows stops with multiple teams in different leagues, but nowhere does it show the deep football knowledge that should come with such a powerful position.
The Browns hired her in 2022, and by 2024 she was running major operations for the team. She now oversees roster decisions, draft strategy, and manages over 50 employees in the football department. That’s a lot of responsibility for someone whose main qualification seems to be checking the right diversity boxes.
This is exactly what happens when teams prioritize social justice over winning football games. The NFL has been pushing hard to get more women and minorities into leadership roles, even if better qualified candidates get passed over. Merit used to matter in America, but now it’s all about optics and making the league look progressive to please the media.
Meanwhile, the Browns have struggled on the field during her tenure. The team that was supposed to compete for championships has disappointed fans year after year. When you hire based on demographics instead of proven football expertise, losing becomes predictable.
Football has always been about the best man for the job, period. Fans don’t care about diversity quotas when their team is losing games they should win. They want executives who understand the game inside and out, not lawyers who learned football from textbooks and sensitivity training sessions.
The real victims here are the qualified football minds who got overlooked because they didn’t fit the NFL’s woke agenda. There are countless coaches, scouts, and football lifers who earned their shot through decades of grinding in the trenches. Instead, teams are gambling with billion-dollar franchises to make political statements.
American football fans deserve better than this social experiment. They work hard all week and spend their money to watch the best athletes compete at the highest level. When teams hire based on anything other than pure football ability, they’re cheating the fans who make the NFL possible in the first place.
