Ryan Grigson, the senior vice president of player personnel for Minnesota, and Chris Spielman, an executive from Detroit, were among five additional candidates interviewed by the New York Jets on Saturday for the position of general manager.

On a full day of Jets meetings, the team also visited with Cincinnati executive Trey Brown, Denver deputy general manager Darren Mougey, and Washington assistant general manager Lance Newmark.

In an attempt to replace Joe Douglas, who was sacked in November, New York has examined 13 known candidates for the position of general manager.

Alongside Tampa Bay assistant general manager Mike Greenberg, Los Angeles Rams senior personnel executive Ray Farmer, Kansas City assistant general manager Mike Borgonzi, Philadelphia assistant general manager Alec Halaby, Senior Bowl executive director Jim Nagy, former Atlanta general manager Thomas Dimitroff, former Tennessee general manager Jon Robinson, and ESPN analyst Louis Riddick, Grigson, Spielman, Mougey, Brown, and Newmark were also present.

A head coach is also needed in New York. Steve Spagnuolo, Mike Locksley, Mike Vrabel, Ron Rivera, Rex Ryan, Matt Nagy, and Aaron Glenn have all been interviewed by the Jets for the position. Darren Rizzi, the interim coach for the Saints during the second half of the season, was also interviewed by them on Saturday.

The 52-year-old Grigson is in his third season with the Vikings and helped build a roster that went 13-4 during the regular season and made the playoffs.

The former tight end and offensive lineman, a sixth-round draft pick of Cincinnati in 1995, was Indianapolis’ general manager for five years. He selected quarterback Andrew Luck with the first overall pick in the 2012 draft, his first with the Colts. Indianapolis was 49-31 in the regular season with Grigson in charge and made the playoffs three times.

He also worked in various roles in other NFL front offices, including the Rams, Eagles, Browns and Seahawks.

Spielman, a former NFL linebacker and the leading tackler in Lions franchise history, has been the special assistant to the president, CEO and chairperson for Detroit since 2021. He has helped general manager Brad Holmes and coach Dan Campbell put together a Lions squad that won a franchise-record 15 games this season and earned the No. 1 seed in the NFC.

The 59-year-old Spielman is also the younger brother of former Dolphins and Vikings GM Rick Spielman, who along with former Jets GM Mike Tannenbaum is helping identify and vet GM and coaching candidates for New York and coordinate interviews.

They’re part of The 33rdTeam — a football media, analytics and consulting group founded by Tannenbaum — which was hired by Jets owner Woody Johnson in November to help New York in its searches.

Mougey, the Broncos’ assistant GM under George Paton for three seasons, has held several positions in Denver’s front office since joining the team as a scouting intern in 2012. Once a backup quarterback behind Vikings coach Kevin O’Connell at San Diego State, Mougey was Denver’s director of player personnel in 2021 before being promoted to assistant GM.

Brown has been a senior personnel executive for the Bengals since 2022. He also has worked in the front offices of the Patriots and Eagles, and had stints as an executive with Birmingham of the Alliance of American Football and St. Louis of the XFL.

Newmark is in his first season as Washington’s assistant GM under Adam Peters and is responsible for the Commanders’ personnel and scouting departments.

He worked two years as a staff assistant with the Chargers before joining Detroit, where Newmark worked 26 years in various roles, including as the senior director of player personnel.