Dolphins hire Packers executive Jon-Eric Sullivan as general manager: reports

The Miami Dolphins reportedly hired a caller wide manager connected Friday, but not the campaigner with ties to John Harbaugh.

The Dolphins hired Green Bay Packers vice president of unit Jon-Eric Sullivan to beryllium their caller wide manager, according to aggregate reports.

When the Dolphins fired Mike McDaniel connected Thursday, galore fans speculated they would prosecute Chad Alexander arsenic their caller wide manager to assistance bring successful Harbaugh. Alexander began his vocation with the Baltimore Ravens arsenic a scout successful 1999 and spent 20 seasons with the enactment successful a assortment of roles, overlapping with Harbaugh.

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Jon-Eric Sullivan, Green Bay Packers manager of assemblage scouting, talks successful Green Bay, Wisconsin, connected April 26, 2018. (Mike Roemer, File/AP Photo)

Alexander is presently the Los Angeles Chargers adjunct wide manager, moving with Harbaugh’s brother, Jim Harbaugh. Alexander’s familiarity with the Harbaugh brothers led galore to judge that if the Dolphins hired him, it could pb the erstwhile Ravens’ manager to articulation him successful South Beach.

Instead, the Dolphins went with Sullivan. He spent 22 seasons with the Packers, opening arsenic a scouting intern successful 2003 earlier earning a full-time presumption with the team’s shot operations section successful 2004.

Sullivan has worked his mode up the enactment and was named vice president of unit successful 2022. The Packers person made the playoffs successful each of the past 3 seasons.

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Head manager Jim Harbaugh of the Los Angeles Chargers and caput manager John Harbaugh of the Baltimore Ravens airs for a photograph anterior to an NFL shot crippled astatine SoFi Stadium successful Inglewood, California, connected Nov. 25, 2024. (Michael Owens/Getty Images)

Sullivan’s household has ties to the Dolphins organization, arsenic his father, Jerry Sullivan, was the Dolphins wide receivers manager successful 2004.

Sullivan has a batch of large decisions to marque successful his archetypal offseason connected the job. He indispensable prosecute a caller caput manager and past find what to bash with the aboriginal of the backmost position. Harbaugh, who volition surely beryllium a campaigner for the job, volition surely beryllium of Sullivan’s involvement arsenic their caput coaching hunt commences.

Tua Tagovailoa, who was benched for the last 3 games of the play due to the fact that of mediocre play, inactive has a batch of wealth near connected his contract.

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Miami Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa (1) walks disconnected the tract aft a failed two-point conversion effort successful the 2nd fractional of an NFL shot crippled against the Pittsburgh Steelers successful Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, connected Dec. 15, 2025. (Justin Berl/AP Photo)

Tagovailoa threw for 2,660 yards with 20 touchdowns past play but showed a stark diminution successful accuracy and mobility aft signing a four-year, $212.4 cardinal hold successful July 2024. He finished 2nd successful the NFL with 15 interceptions, which was a vocation high.

Tagovailoa is guaranteed $54 cardinal for 2026, and the Dolphins would incur important hits to the wage headdress by releasing him. Releasing him adjacent twelvemonth would effect successful a $99 cardinal dormant headdress charge. If the determination is designated arsenic a post-June 1 release, those charges are divided implicit 2 years, with $67.4 cardinal allocated to the 2026 headdress and $31.8 cardinal successful 2027.

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