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The Browns announced a bunch of changes and promotions within their personnel department on Tuesday.

Kevin Kovash, who’s been with the team since 2013 and has an extensive analytics background, was promoted to vice president of player personnel. Kovash spent the last three seasons as director of football research.

The Browns promoted Sashi Brown to executive vice president of football operations in January after firing general manager Ray Farmer. Shortly thereafter, Paul DePodesta was hired as chief strategy officer, then Andrew Berry was hired from the Colts as vice president of player personnel.

There is no general manager in this new setup; all football employees answer to Brown. As happens when regimes are cleaned out, the Browns had previously made a couple rounds of cuts with scouts and other personnel men tied to Farmer.

In addition to Kovash being given the same title Berry has, the team announced that Chisom Opara has been promoted to director of player personnel and that Kevin Meers has been promoted to director of research and strategy, a job in which he’ll work closely with DePodesta. The Browns also announced three men — Bobby Vega, Dan Saganey and Mike Cetta — have been promoted to scouting director.

Opara and Vega have seen a lot. Both have been with the organization since 2005. Saganey has been with the organization since 2009.

The Browns also announced one outside addition to their personnel department. Glenn Cook, who worked the last four years in personnel with the Packers, has been hired as assistant director of scouting.