Trip MacCracken

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| current_team = Jacksonville Jaguars

| position = Director of Roster Management

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1974|6|30|mf=y}}

| birth_place = Akron, Ohio

| college = Hamilton College
Duke

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• Cleveland Browns ({{NFL Year|1999}}–{{NFL Year|2009}})
  Salary cap manager
• Kansas City Chiefs ({{NFL Year|2010}}–{{NFL Year|2017}})
  Director of football administration
• Senior Bowl (2017–2018)
  College scouting consultant
• Arizona Hotshots (2018–2019)
  Director of player personnel
• New York Guardians (2019–2020)
  Director of player personnel
• Jacksonville Jaguars ({{NFL Year|2021-2023}}–present)
  Director of roster management

Director of player finance

• Jacksonville Jaguars (2023–present)

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Alan "Trip" MacCracken (born June 30, 1974) is currently the Director of Player Finance for the Jacksonville Jaguars.

MacCracken graduated from Hawken School, where he captained the football and baseball teams, and became an undergraduate at Hamilton College. 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. 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 for their first season as an expansion team. He spent eleven years with the Cleveland Browns, where he was in charge of managing the salary cap and the team's chief contract negotiator.{{cite web | url = http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/article-2/CLARK-NAMED-STRENGTH-COACH-MacCRACKEN-HIRED-AS-DIR-OF-FB-ADMINISTRATION/f24e4cac-cb63-469a-88fc-724656e3e039 | title = CLARK NAMED STRENGTH COACH, MacCRACKEN HIRED AS DIR. OF FB ADMINISTRATION | accessdate = 2010-12-11 | date = 2010-02-25 | work = KCChiefs.com | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20110713141431/http://www.kcchiefs.com/news/article-2/CLARK-NAMED-STRENGTH-COACH-MacCRACKEN-HIRED-AS-DIR-OF-FB-ADMINISTRATION/f24e4cac-cb63-469a-88fc-724656e3e039 | url-status = dead | archivedate = 2011-07-13}} He was hired by the Kansas City Chiefs in 2010 as Director of Football Administration.{{Cite web| last = Florio| first = Mike| title = Chiefs hire Trip MacCracken, Mike Clark| publisher = ProFootballTalk.com| date = February 25, 2010| url = http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/02/25/chiefs-hire-trip-maccracken-mike-clark/| accessdate = February 27, 2010}} He was fired by the Chiefs in May 2017.{{cite news|last=Paylor|first=Terez|url=https://www.kansascity.com/sports/nfl/kansas-city-chiefs/article150631647.html|title=Chiefs' pro scouting, football administration directors won't return|newspaper=The Kansas City Star|date=May 15, 2017|accessdate=October 14, 2019}} He joined the Guardians of the newly-formed XFL in 2019 as Director of Player Personnel.{{cite web|url=https://www.xfl.com/en-US/articles/the-new-york-guardians-are-on-duty-in-february-2020|title=The New York Guardians are #OnDuty in February 2020|work=XFL|date=September 20, 2019|accessdate=October 14, 2019}}