Cornell Gowdy

For the past seven years, Cornell Gowdy served as the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic Regions scout for the Kansas City Chiefs. His responsibilities included evaluating all draft eligible collegiate football players in these areas, plus crosschecking top positional prospects from select universities in the Southeast.

Prior to the Chiefs, Cornell was the Northeastern Regional scout for the New Orleans Saints. In this capacity Cornell covered prospects throughout the Northeast and top prospects at universities from the Southeast and Midwest regions. He also evaluated college underclassmen on their potential draft status for the NFL's College Advisory Committee. His duties also included evaluating NFL Europe players along with NFL restricted and unrestricted free agents for off-season acquisitions.

Cornell began his scouting career with National Football Scouting, Inc., the leading scouting services used by NFL teams to assist their scouting departments. For National, Cornell evaluated draft eligible collegiate football players for the 12 member teams.

Cornell graduated from Morgan State University in 1985 with a Bachelor of Science degree. After a stellar career as a standout Defensive Back for the Morgan State Bears, Cornell played in the NFL for the Dallas Cowboys and Pittsburg Steelers.