Thomas Dimitroff
Dimitroff in 2014
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| Position: | General manager |
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| Date of birth: | July 14, 1966 |
| Place of birth: | Barberton, Ohio |
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| College: | Guelph |
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Thomas George Dimitroff, Jr. (born July 14, 1966) is an American football executive who is the general manager for the Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). Before joining the Falcons in 2008, Dimitroff was with the New England Patriots for six years. He joined the Patriots in 2002 as a national scout and then was named director of college scouting a year later.
Dimitroff was born in Ohio to Tom Dimitroff, Sr. and Helen (neé Kenhart). He grew up in Canada, where his father was a football coach with the Ottawa Rough Riders, Hamilton Tiger-Cats, and the University of Guelph in Ontario. In 1983, Dimitroff served as an equipment manager for the Guelph football team. From 1985–1990, he played defensive back for the Gryphons football team and was team captain from 1988–1990. Dimitroff graduated from Guelph with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1990. His brother Randy played quarterback for Guelph from 1982–1985 and the two were teammates in 1985. His nephew Dillon Dimitroff also played for Guelph from 2009–2012.
After graduating from college, Dimitroff joined the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League as their Canadian scouting coordinator, but worked in many areas of the team's operations for the two seasons he was there. In 1992, he worked in the Dallas, Texas office of the World League of American Football, tracking NFL player transactions and rosters. When the league folded later that year, Dimitroff moved to Japan, where he helped coach a friend's corporate American football team.
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