Eliot Wolf

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Eliot Wolf
New England Patriots
Position:Executive vice president of player personnel
Personal information
Born: (1982-03-21) March 21, 1982 (age 42)
Oakland, California, U.S.
Career information
High school: Notre Dame Academy
(Green Bay, Wisconsin)
College: University of Miami
Career history
As a staff member / executive:
Executive profile at Pro Football Reference
Career highlights and awards

Eliot Wolf (born March 21, 1982) is an American professional football executive who is the executive vice president of player personnel 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.

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Early life

Wolf was born on March 21, 1982, in Oakland, California, to a Jewish family. 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, he was promoted to director of player personnel. A year later, on March 21, 2016, Wolf was promoted to director of football operations. [3] In 2018, Wolf was one of four candidates interviewed to become the Packers new General Manager, but after Brian Gutekunst was hired for the job, Wolf left the Packers to be assistant general manager under John Dorsey with the Cleveland Browns. [4]

Wolf and Dorsey spent two seasons with the Browns before parting ways following the 2019 season, and Wolf joined the New England Patriots as a scouting consultant the following year. [5] He was promoted to director of scouting with the Patriots in 2022 and became the executive vice president of player personnel following the departure of longtime head coach and de facto general manager Bill Belichick in 2024. [6] [7] [8]

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References

  1. ↑ "Eliot Wolf". Green Bay Packers. Retrieved December 30, 2013.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ "Packers promote Wolf and Gutekunst". Packers.com. March 21, 2016. Retrieved January 3, 2017.
  4. ↑ Demovsky, Rob (January 10, 2018). "Browns hire Eliot Wolf as assistant GM". ESPN . Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  5. ↑ Garitt, Darin (March 11, 2020). "Eliot Wolf joins Patriots as consultant". NBC Sports . Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  6. ↑ Houde, Isaiah (March 25, 2022). "Patriots create new director of scouting position for Eliot Wolf". USA Today . Retrieved January 9, 2024.
  7. ↑ Price, Christopher. "Meet Eliot Wolf, the man who has the pedigree to make personnel decisions for the Patriots". Boston Globe. Retrieved February 22, 2024.
  8. ↑ 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.
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