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Bob Quinn is in his second year as the Detroit Lions general manager and has decided to do some restructuring of the team's scouting department.

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ALLEN PARK -- The Detroit Lions are through the draft and onto rookie minicamp, where they'll evaluate the picks and signings they've made as well as the rookies they've brought in for tryouts.

They have a newly organized scouting department working on finding the guys of the future, too. The team announced a new structure Friday.

Kyle O'Brien has been promoted to vice president of player personnel. He was previously the director of player personnel and general manager Bob Quinn's right-hand man.

Lance Newmark will replace O'Brien as director of player personnel, up from his old post as director of college scouting.

Dave Sears, a longtime regional scout in the Southeast, is the team's new assistant director of college scouting.

Steve Neal is now an area scout after he was the team's BLESTO scout a year ago. He's being replaced by Eloy Ledesma, who was a scouting assistant last year. Additionally, Ron Miles takes over as a college scout.

The changes come one week after the departure of Brian Xanders, who served as the team's senior personnel executive since 2013. The former Broncos general manager had a role in scouting as well as reshaping the organization's systems for tracking that scouting information.