HENDERSON, Nev. – John Spytek has been named General Manager of the Las Vegas Raiders.
Spytek enters his 23rd year in the NFL after spending the last nine seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, serving as the Assistant General Manager (2023-24), Vice President of Player Personnel (2021-22) and Director of Player Personnel (2016-20). Since joining the Buccaneers in 2016, Tampa Bay has clinched five playoff appearances, six playoff victories, four NFC South division titles and a Super Bowl championship. The team's six playoff wins since 2016 are tied for the seventh-most in the NFL during that span.
During his time in Tampa Bay, Spytek helped draft four players who earned PFWA All-Rookie Team honors (CB Vernon Hargreaves, LB Devin White, T Tristan Wirfs and RB Bucky Irving) and five players who were selected to a combined nine Pro Bowls and three AP All-Pro selections (WR Chris Godwin, DT Vita Vea, White, Wirfs and S Antonie Winfield Jr.). He was also integral in the signings of key free agents C Ryan Jensen, LB Shaq Barrett, DT Ndamukong Suh, QB Tom Brady and QB Baker Mayfield, while helping trade for DE Jason Pierre-Paul and TE Rob Gronkowski. The Buccaneers were the only team in the NFL to have multiple draft picks selected to the All-Rookie Team in consecutive seasons from 2019-20. In 2021, Tampa Bay was able to return all 22 starters from the Super Bowl LV championship team, becoming the first to do so in the salary cap era.
Prior to joining Tampa Bay, Spytek spent three seasons with the Denver Broncos, where he worked as Southwest area scout in 2013 and as a national scout from 2014-15. The Broncos' 37 regular season and 42 overall wins were the most in the NFL over that three-year span, culminating in a Super Bowl 50 victory following the 2015 season.
Before joining the Broncos, Spytek spent three seasons (2010-12) as the Cleveland Browns' Director of College Scouting. While with the Browns, Spytek assisted in drafting six players who earned PFW/PFWA All- Rookie Team honors and five players who were selected to a Pro Bowl.
Spytek began his player personnel career working as an intern with the Philadelphia Eagles in 2005, earning a full-time college scouting assistant position in 2006 and spending three years as a college/pro scout from 2007-09. His first job in the NFL was as an operations intern with the Detroit Lions in 2004.
A native of Pewaukee, Wisconsin, Spytek played linebacker at the University of Michigan from 1999-2002, earning a bachelor's degree in general studies and a master's in sports management.
Spytek and his wife, Kristen, are parents to Jack and Thomas. Together, they co-founded the National CMV Foundation in 2014 to educate families about congenital CMV, a virus that ultimately claimed the life of their 21-month-old daughter, Evelyn, in 2014.
