Alan "Trip" MacCracken (born June 30, 1974) is currently the Director of Roster Management for the Jacksonville Jaguars. MacCracken graduated from Hawken School, where he captained the football and baseball teams, and became an undergraduate at

Hamilton College Hamilton College is a private liberal arts college in Clinton, Oneida County, New York. It was founded as Hamilton-Oneida Academy in 1793 and was chartered as Hamilton College in 1812 in honor of inaugural trustee Alexander Hamilton, followi ...

. During his junior year, he went off campus to do an internship at the White House. While in Washington, MacCracken also found work as an intern with the

Washington Redskins The Washington Commanders are a professional American football team based in the Washington metropolitan area. The Commanders compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's National Football Conference (NFC) ...

. After Hamilton, MacCracken continued his work with the Redskins while receiving his J.D. at Duke Law School. He also spent a summer working for the NFL Management Council, which represents ownership in the Collective Bargaining Agreement. Upon graduation from law school in 1999, MacCracken joined the

Cleveland Browns The Cleveland Browns are a professional American football team based in Cleveland. Named after original coach and co-founder Paul Brown, they compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the American Football Conference ( ...

for their first season as an expansion team. He spent eleven years with the

, where he was in charge of managing the salary cap and the team's chief contract negotiator. He was hired by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2010 as Director of Football Administration. He was fired by the Chiefs in May 2017. He joined the Guardians of the newly-formed XFL in 2019 as Director of Player Personnel.

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Hawken School Alumni ArticleCrain's Cleveland Business Interview
{{DEFAULTSORT:Maccracken, Trip 1974 births Cleveland Browns executives Kansas City Chiefs executives Duke University School of Law alumni Hamilton College (New York) alumni Living people Sportspeople from Akron, Ohio