Dave Birkett

Detroit Free Press

Bob Quinn's front office makeover is nearly complete.

The Detroit Lions hired former New Orleans Saints and New York Jets scout Brendan Prophett to run their pro personnel department today, making him one of the top executives on the football side of the team.

Along with Prophett, the Lions added former Atlanta Falcons scout Scott Sika as a college scout.

The football industry website insidetheleague.com first reported both hires.

Sika spent two years as a scouting assistant with the Falcons and was the team's Northeast scout last season. It's unclear whether Sika, an Ohio State graduate, will stay in the Northeast for the Lions. The team had been looking for someone to scout the Midwest.

Prophett, a Massachusetts native like Quinn, was the Jets' pro personnel director in 2007-15. He joined the Saints as an area scout last spring, after a shakeup in the Jets' front office.

Along with the Jets and Saints, Prophett worked as an intern for the New York Giants in 1999 and with the NFL management council in 2000. He joined the Jets as a college scouting intern a year later and worked as a college scout before moving to the pro side.

Quinn, who took over in January, has spent the past four months reshaping the Lions' front office.

He hired Kyle O'Brien as his director of player personnel and Matt Harriss as his vice president of football administration, and fired former pro personnel director (and interim GM) Sheldon White and several longtime scouts.

While Prophett, who did not return a voicemail seeking comment, will run the pro personnel department, Quinn retained two of White's top lieutenants in assistant pro personnel director Rob Lohman and pro personnel coordinator Charles Brensinger.

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