USC executive senior associate athletic director Brandon Sosna is leaving the athletic department for a front office job with the Detroit Lions, a source confirmed Thursday.

Sosna arrived at USC in 2019 alongside athletic director Mike Bohn, whom he worked with at Cincinnati. During his tenure at USC, Sosna played a major role in revitalizing the athletic department, including an overhaul of operations and support staff for the football department in an effort to make it competitive with other national programs.

Following the firing of Clay Helton last fall, Sosna ran point alongside Bohn in the coaching search that resulted in the hiring of Lincoln Riley away from Oklahoma.

Sosna interviewed last summer for a position for the Lions, who employ John Dorsey as a senior personnel executive. Sosna worked under Dorsey with the Cleveland Browns from 2017-18 before taking his job at Cincinnati.

Like last summer, USC made an aggressive pitch to keep Sosna in Los Angeles, but the pull of a future in the NFL was too great for him to resist this time around.

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