Report: Redskins considering NFL Network's Mike Mayock for GM job

Might the Washington Redskins turn to the football community's most well-known draft guru in their search for a new front-office leader?

NFL Network analyst Mike Mayock has emerged as a candidate for Washington's general manager job following Scot McCloughan's dismissal, sources told Adam Schefter and Field Yates of ESPN.

Mayock promptly followed up the report with a statement indicating that he hasn't had any contact with the Redskins.

There has been no official contact between myself and the team and no interviews about the job. My focus and energy - as it typically is this time of year - is squarely focused on the NFL Draft and NFL Network's coverage of that event ... this year in my hometown of Philly!

With the ESPN report adding that Washington is unlikely to hire a new general manager until after the draft, it doesn't appear as though Mayock sticking to such a commitment would necessarily remove him from the running.

Mayock, who was a defensive back during a brief playing career in the early '80s, has spent over a decade working as the resident draft expert at the league's television network.

The 58-year-old being tied to such a prominent personnel job will raise some eyebrows, much like the hiring of John Lynch did in San Francisco earlier this offseason, but it isn't the first time Mayock has generated league interest.

Longtime Oakland Raiders owner Al Davis was widely known to have interviewed Mayock for a prominent personnel role in 2007, though he was never able to coax him away from broadcasting.

The Redskins are setting out in search of a new GM after making the controversial move to fire McCloughan on the first day of free agency, just two years into his contract.