Sources: Dolphins hiring Packers DC Jeff Hafley as new coach - ESPN

MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — The Miami Dolphins are hiring Green Bay Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley to become their next head coach, sources told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday.

Hafley, 46, interviewed with the Dolphins for a second time Monday.

He joins new general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan, whom the Dolphins 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.

Micah Parsons, the Packers' star pass rusher, congratulated Hafley in a post to X, writing: «Genuinely happy for haf! Great guy great person! Gonna miss his energy!»

The Dolphins have not won a playoff game in 25 seasons, the longest such drought in the NFL, per ESPN Research. Miami last won a playoff game on Dec. 30, 2000, against the Indianapolis Colts, when Hafley was a senior at Siena.

Before his time in Green Bay, Hafley was the head coach at Boston College, where he went 22-26 in four seasons.

Hafley is the eighth straight head coach hired by the Dolphins who had no previous NFL head coaching experience, according to ESPN Research. The last Dolphins head coach with previous NFL experience was Dave Wannstedt (2000).

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