Baylor expected to name Aaron Hunt as general manager, per report

Baylor football is expected to make Aaron Hunt its general manager, according to a report from Matt Zenitz of 247Sports. Hunt has been a member of the Bears’ staff since 2021 and was most recently an assistant AD for player personnel.

Prior to joining Baylor, he helped found 306 Elite Performance and Development, an organization that provided after school sports for kids in seventh grade or younger in Denison, Texas. He was the program’s director from 2014-21.

Hunt played college football at Texas Tech from 2000-02 and is still the Big 12’s all-time sack leader with 34. He would go on to be selected in the sixth round of the 2003 NFL Draft to the Denver Broncos but was later released by the team that same season.

Hunt also had a stint on the Arizona Cardinals practice squad and eventually re-signed with Denver in 2005. He later was cut again by the Broncos and signed with the BC Lions of the Canadian Football League in 2006, winning the league’s Most Outstanding Rookie Award. He played seven seasons in the CFL before retiring in 2012.

Hunt played a part in Baylor’s 2025 recruiting class with his previous role, helping them land the No. 5 class in the Big 12 according to On3’s Industry Rankings. He’ll now presumably take on even more roster-building duties in 2025.

The Bears brought in the second-best transfer portal class Big 12 this past season in On3’s Transfer Portal Rankings. They are coming off of an 8-5 finish this past season, which was the fifth for coach Dave Aranda.

Aranda led the team to a Big 12 Championship and Sugar Bowl win in 2021 but last year’s win total was his highest since that 12-2 season. Baylor also hired former Georgia player personnel coordinator Anthony Mauro to serve as the assistant GM to Hunt.

These moves show that the Bears are serious about taking the next step forward in the NIL and transfer portal era of college football. The spring transfer portal window is set to open on April 16, so Baylor will have its team ready to put a plan together on how it will attack that.

For now, the Bears have started their spring practice and will look toward developing the players currently on their roster. They kick off the 2025 season in about five months on Aug. 29 against Auburn.