Staff Directory

Ethan Russo

Title:
Executive Director of Player Personnel
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Ethan Russo was hired as Oklahoma State's Executive Director of Player Personnel in December of 2025.

He comes to OSU from Wisconsin, where he served as the Badgers’ Director of Player Personnel for the 2025 season. While at Wisconsin he was tasked with roster management and oversaw their college scouting efforts throughout the year.

Prior to that, Russo spent two seasons at North Texas. He served as the Mean Green’s Director of Player Personnel in 2024 and as the Assistant Director of Player Personnel in 2023. He was responsible for the Mean Green’s scouting and recruiting operations. He was tasked with managing the roster, high school & transfer portal prospect evaluations, and overseeing various recruiting activities. During his time in Denton, they signed multiple players that contributed to UNT’s historic 12-win season in 2025.

Russo was the Director of Player Personnel at UNLV for the 2022 season. While at UNLV, he oversaw the day-to-day operations of the program’s personnel department. His main responsibilities were managing the roster, evaluating prospects, monitoring the transfer portal and assisting in various recruiting activities. He was able to complete the 2022 recruiting class with a handful of key additions that helped propel the program to its best record since 2013.

From 2019 to 2022, he worked with the University of Utah’s football program. During his time with Utah, he held the roles of Assistant Director of Player Personnel and Player Personnel & Recruiting Assistant. He was tasked with assisting the defensive coaches with identifying, evaluating, and managing prospects. He was able to help achieve two of the top five highest-ranked recruiting classes in the history of the program at that time, according to 247 Sports (30th in 2020 and 31st in 2021). Utah achieved their first Pac-12 conference championship in 2021.

In 2018, he joined Rice University’s football program as a Player Personnel & Recruiting Analyst. Earlier in 2018, he was a Top 30 Operations Intern with the Indianapolis Colts, where he supported the Director of Operations with various events such as the Top 30 program, rookie mini-camp and training camp.

Between 2016 and 2018, Russo held a Game Charter position with the Cleveland Browns. During his time with the Browns, he was responsible for charting prospects’ film for the 2017 and 2018 NFL Drafts.

In 2015, he began his career in athletics as a student equipment manager for TCU’s football program. He supported the safeties coach and managed the special team’s student-managers during practices.

Throughout his career, Russo has signed 17 prospects who have received a total of 21 All-Conference honors and 10 prospects who have gone on to the NFL.

Russo graduated from TCU in 2017 with a degree in communication studies. Where he met his now wife, Susana Russo. He is originally from El Dorado Hills, California.

Career History
2015: TCU, Student Manager
2016-18: Cleveland Browns, Game Charter
2018: Indianapolis Colts, Operations Intern
2018: Rice, Player Personnel & Recruiting Analyst
2019-21: Utah, Player Personnel
2022: UNLV, Director of Player Personnel
2023: North Texas, Assistant Director of Player Personnel
2024: North Texas, Director of Player Personnel
2025: Wisconsin, Director of Player Personnel
2026-present: Oklahoma State, Executive Director of Player Personnel