Earlier today, Inside the League’s Neil Stratton – who seems to be on a real roll this offseason – announced that Adam Peters nabbed another scouting talent for his front office. Dustin Regan, who had been the Executive Director of the BLESTO scouting operation for seven years will now serve as Washington’s Southeast Region scout.
That’s a particularly critical role, given how talent-rich that zone of the country’s colleges and universities are.
BLESTO is one of the top two subscription scouting services in the country (the other is “National”). The firm was originally started by Jack Butler (pictured above) in 1963 and gets its name from the team’s that it was created to serve, the Bears, Lions, Eagles, and Steelers. (“BLESTO” is an acronym of Bears, Lions, and Steelers Talent Organization).
Over time, BLESTO grew to serve roughly half of the NFL teams (with “National” serving most of the rest).
Unlike the team scouts, most which spend the fall looking at the upcoming draft class, the BLESTO scouts have traditionally spent most of their effort looking at the following year’s classes (so, generally, juniors and sophomores) in order to get a jump start.
It’s almost a decade old at this point, but Cat Scratch Reader, the Panthers’ SBNation site had a good write up on BLESTO on their site here.
