Dolphins hiring Packers DC Jeff Hafley as new head coach
The Miami Dolphins are set to hire Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley to become their next head coach, as per Adam Schefter.
It comes after Hafley, 46, interviewed with the Dolphins for a second time on Tuesday, and he will join new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan, who Miami hired to replace longtime GM Chris Grier this month. Sullivan and Hafley overlapped for the past two seasons together in Green Bay.
Hafley spent two seasons as the Packers’ defensive coordinator, during which Green Bay ranked ninth in yards allowed per game, sixth in yards per play, and eighth in points allowed per game. Before his time in Green Bay, Hafley was the head coach at Boston College, where he went 22-26 in four seasons.
Hafley’s only other NFL coaching experience before his time with the Packers was as a defensive backs coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns and San Francisco 49ers from 2012 to 2018. His coaching career began in 2001 as Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s running backs coach, morphing into stops at Albany, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and Ohio State, where he was the Buckeyes’ defensive coordinator in 2019.
Miami is headed toward a reset after firing Grier during the season and head coach Mike McDaniel days after the season ended. In an interview with the team’s in-house media, Sullivan mentioned multiple players as building blocks moving forward, including the likes of Jaylen Waddle and De’Von Achane.
Sullivan did not mention quarterback Tua Tagovailoa, who was benched late in the 2025 season and whose future with the team is currently unclear.
