Rick Horrow sits down with Dawn Aponte, Senior Vice President of Football Operations and Strategy for the New York Giants and one of the highest ranking women in the NFL. Aponte traces a path that began as a summer accounting intern with the Jets and ran through the league office, Cleveland and Miami before landing in New York. She opens up the work most fans never see: how contracts and the cap get built, what the Dexter Lawrence trade actually took, how she reads a room across the table in free agency, and why maximizing flexibility drives every roster decision. She closes on the state of NFL labor, the progress of women in football leadership, and what still needs to change.
