Eliot Wolf
| New England Patriots | |
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| Position: | Director of scouting/de facto general manager |
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| Born: | March 21, 1982 Oakland, California, U.S. |
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| High school: | Notre Dame Academy (Green Bay, Wisconsin) |
| College: | University of Miami |
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Eliot Wolf (born March 21, 1982) is an American football executive who is the director of scouting and de facto general manager for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL). He previously served in the Green Bay Packers' scouting department for 14 years before working as an assistant general manager with the Cleveland Browns in the late 2010s.
Early life
Wolf was born on March 21, 1982, in Oakland, California. He graduated from Notre Dame Academy in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 2000 and from the University of Miami in 2003.[1] Wolf's father, Ron Wolf, was general manager of the Packers.[2]
Executive career
Wolf joined the Packers as a pro personnel assistant in 2004. He became assistant director of pro personnel in 2008 and assistant director of player personnel in 2011 before advancing to director of pro personnel in 2012. On January 2, 2015, Wolf was promoted to director of player personnel. A year later, on March 21, 2016, Wolf was promoted to director-football operations.[3] In April 2016, Bob McGinn of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Brian Manzullo of the Detroit Free Press reported that Wolf was a candidate for the vacant Detroit Lions general manager position, but the Packers denied the Lions' request to interview him.[4][5]
Following the final regular season game of the 2016 season the San Francisco 49ers fired general manager Trent Baalke, prompting sportswriter Ian Rapoport to highlight Wolf as a potential new general manager of the team.[6] On January 3, 2017, Tom Pelissero of USA Today reported that the 49ers would interview Wolf for the general manager position.[7][8]
Wolf left the Packers and was hired as the assistant general manager under John Dorsey with the Cleveland Browns in 2018.[9] He left the Browns following the 2019 season and joined the New England Patriots as a scouting consultant the following year.[10] He was promoted to director of scouting with the Patriots in 2022 and became the de facto general manager following the departure of longtime head coach Bill Belichick in 2024.[11][12][13]
References
- ^ "Eliot Wolf". Green Bay Packers. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
- ^ Matt Barrows (December 29, 2016). "On 49ers: Will the team pick from Ron Wolf's tree of GM candidates?". Sacramento Bee. Archived from the original on November 5, 2020. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ "Packers promote Wolf and Gutekunst". Packers.com. March 21, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Bob McGinn (April 23, 2016). "Packers GM Ted Thompson focused on retaining top executives". Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Brian Manzullo (April 24, 2016). "Report: Packers' Eliot Wolf was Lions' first choice for GM". Detroit Free Press. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Ian Rapoport (January 1, 2017). "Eliot Wolf, Chris Ballard among potential GM candidates". NFL.com. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Tom Pelissero (January 3, 2017). "NFL coaching buzz: Latest on job openings, candidates". USA Today. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Kirk Larrabee (January 3, 2017). "Packers' Eliot Wolf to interview with 49ers, per reports". CBS Sports. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
- ^ Demovsky, Rob (January 10, 2018). "Browns hire Eliot Wolf as assistant GM". ESPN. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ Garitt, Darin (March 11, 2020). "Eliot Wolf joins Patriots as consultant". NBC Sports. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ Houde, Isaiah (March 25, 2022). "Patriots create new director of scouting position for Eliot Wolf". USA Today. Retrieved January 9, 2024.
- ^ Price, Christopher. "Meet Eliot Wolf, the man who has the pedigree to make personnel decisions for the Patriots". Boston Globe. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
- ^ Patra, Kevin. "Patriots exec Eliot Wolf to have final say during 2024 NFL Draft, wants to model approach after Packers". NFL.com. Retrieved February 27, 2024.