UNLV head coach Marcus Arroyo announced that Ethan Russo joined the program as director of player personnel in March 2022.
Russo had just completed his second season at the University of Utah, having been promoted to assistant director of player personnel for the Utes in April 2021. In Salt Lake City, he oversaw defensive recruiting and managed two assistants in identifying, evaluating and managing prospects. He was director for all football camps and helped host all official and unofficial prospect visits. Russo helped Utah achieve the school’s two highest-ranked recruiting classes according to 247Sports (No. 30 in 2020 and No. 33 in 2021).
Previous to joining the Pac-12 program, Russo spent the 2018 season as a recruiting analyst at Rice University in Houston. Before that he spent time working for NFL teams, as an operations intern for the Indianapolis Colts (April to July 2018) and game charter for the Cleveland Browns (October 2016-March 2018).
A 2017 graduate of TCU with a bachelor’s of science degree in communication studies with a minor in business, Russo was an on-field student manager for the Horned Frogs football program after originally starting out as an assistant student manager in the equipment department.
“Our new director of player personnel, Ethan Russo, joins us from the Utah football program,” said Arroyo. “His background and skill set is a perfect match for our program and we are so excited to watch him positively affect our evaluation process and roster management. We hit an absolute home run landing Ethan and his wife, Susana.”
