{"id":397718,"date":"2026-01-09T18:47:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:47:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397718\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T18:47:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T18:47:07","slug":"sources-dolphins-finalizing-gm-deal-with-packers-sullivan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/397718\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources: Dolphins finalizing GM deal with Packers’ Sullivan"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Miami Dolphins<\/a> are finalizing a deal to hire Green Bay Packers<\/a> vice president of player personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan as their general manager, sources told ESPN’s Adam Schefter on Friday.<\/p>\n

Sullivan joined the Dolphins after working for the Packers since 2003, starting as a scouting intern before being hired full time in 2004. He moved up the ranks from college scout to director of college scouting to co-director of player personnel before becoming Green Bay’s vice president of player personnel in 2022, working closely with general manager Brian Gutekunst for a team that has reached the playoffs six of the past seven seasons.<\/p>\n

The first major move for Sullivan in Miami will be to hire a new head coach. Mike McDaniel was fired Thursday after four seasons that included a 7-10 record in 2025. That was the Dolphins’ second consecutive losing season after making the playoffs in 2022 and 2023.<\/p>\n

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The Dolphins have been linked to former Baltimore Ravens<\/a> coach John Harbaugh, though sources told ESPN’s Jeff Darlington that Miami had not yet been in touch with Harbaugh or anyone in his camp as of Thursday.<\/p>\n

A possible candidate with an existing connection to Sullivan could be Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley, who has also received interest from the Cardinals<\/a>, Falcons<\/a> and Titans<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A looming decision also exists for quarterback Tua Tagovailoa<\/a>, who was benched after Week 15 and said Monday that he was hopeful to get a fresh start with a new team in 2026.<\/p>\n

Moving on from Tagovailoa will be expensive for Miami. He represents a $56.4 million cap hit in 2026, and cutting him before June 1 would result in a $99.2 million dead cap hit next season. Releasing him after June 1 would spread that dead cap hit across two seasons, with $67.2 million hitting in 2026.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins could also look to trade the NFL’s 2023 leader in passing yards but would have to find a team willing to take on his salary.<\/p>\n

Jon-Eric Sullivan is finalizing a deal to become Dolphins general manager after more than two decades with the Packers, sources told ESPN.\u00a0AP Photo\/Mike Roemer<\/p>\n

Sullivan is a son of Jerry Sullivan, the longtime NFL and college coach who retired in 2021 after more than 40 years in football. That included a stint as the Dolphins’ wide receivers coach in 2004.<\/p>\n

Sullivan joins a long line of Packers scouts to become general managers, following in the footsteps of Ted Thompson, Scot McCloughan, John Schneider, Reggie McKenzie, John Dorsey and Gutekunst.<\/p>\n

Other candidates for the Dolphins’ general manager position were interim GM Champ Kelly, San Francisco 49ers<\/a> director of scouting and football operations Josh Williams<\/a>, and Los Angeles Chargers<\/a> assistant GM Chad Alexander.<\/p>\n

Information from ESPN’s Marcel Louis-Jacques and Rob Demovsky was used in this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Dolphins are finalizing a deal to hire Green Bay Packers vice president of player personnel Jon-Eric…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-397718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}