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Dolphins Part Ways With Execs Adam Engroff, Anthony Hunt

November 11th, 2025 at 3:15pm CST by Sam Robinson

Chris Grier had been with the Dolphins since 2000. The team split with its GM just before the trade deadline. Two execs who had been with the franchise longer also are out of the picture now.

Following the Dolphins’ upset win over the Bills, NFL.com’s Tom Pelissero notes co-directors of player personnel Adam Engroff and Anthony Hunt are no longer with the organization. Both staffers had been with the Dolphins since the 1990s, and they had steadily ascended. They were the longest-tenured staffers in Miami’s front office, according to the Miami Herald’s C. Isaiah Smalls.

Engroff joined the Dolphins in 1999 as a scout and climbed to the director of college scouting post in 2016, the same offseason Grier took the GM reins. Grier overtaking Mike Tannenbaum as the Dolphins’ top front office decision-maker in 2019 also coincided with Engroff’s final rise within the organization, as the Dolphins elevated him to co-director of player personnel that year.

Hunt had been with the Dolphins since Dan Marino‘s prime, arriving in 1994, and he had been in the upper reaches of the team’s scouting department since 2013 — upon being promoted to co-director of pro personnel. Grier then appointed Hunt as a co-player personnel director alongside Engroff in 2019. While Engroff headed the Dolphins’ scouting department, Smalls notes Hunt worked closely with Grier on roster assembly.

It is interesting to see the Dolphins clean house on this level at this time. Scouting staffers are regularly retained through the draft, as contracts for those positions generally run beyond that point. Teams often prefer not to disrupt their scouting contingents during the runup to drafts, with many of those changes coming in May annually. Time remains to set draft boards, however, and the Dolphins are in overhaul mode despite having intentions to retain Mike McDaniel through season’s end. Though, having these positions unfilled ahead of Thanksgiving represents an interesting setup.

Champ Kelly is in place as interim GM, being hired this past offseason after a Raiders departure. Kelly is technically auditioning to replace Grier, but teams do not make a habit of removing interim tags from GMs. Stephen Ross likely has outside candidates in mind, despite Grier being an internal staffer to climb. The Dolphins last hired an outsider to head up their front office when they tabbed Tannenbaum as executive VP of football ops in 2015. Dennis Hickey is the most recent outsider to be named GM in Miami; his tenure lasted only two years (2014-15).

Extra Points: Fournette, Colts, Dolphins, Chiefs

May 13th, 2016 at 8:49pm CST by Dallas Robinson

LSU running back Leonard Fournette is expected to a high draft choice in 2017, but he’ll be financially covered in the event that something goes awry. As Dennis Dodd of CBSSports.com details, Fournette’s parents have purchased two $10MM insurance policies — one that would cover a career-ending injury, and another that would kick in if Fournette falls in next year’s draft. The entire article is well-worth a read, as Dodd excellently reports on the largely unregulated industry of NCAA athlete insurance.

Here’s more from around the league…

  • Former New Orleans scout Brendan Prophett is reportedly set to join the Lions as the team’s new director of pro scouting, and Alex Marvez of FOX Sports (Twitter link) hears that Prophett chose that position over a similar role in the Colts‘ front office.
  • Elsewhere in front office news, Marvez reports (Twitter link) that the Dolphins are promoting scout Adam Engroff to college scouting director. According to Miami’s media guide, Engroff has worked for the club since 1999, and has spent the past four years as a national scout.
  • Tom Reed of Cleveland.com takes a look at Browns undrafted rookie free agent Mike Matthews, a former Texas A&M center who is brother to Jake Matthews and cousin to Clay Matthews. Mike, for his part, says Cleveland was his first choice when identifying potential landing spot.
  • The Chiefs selected West Alabama receiver Tyreek Hill in the fifth round despite his having a domestic violence arrest in his past, but general manager John Dorsey told Pro Football Talk Live that Hill is not guaranteed a roster spot.

Luke Adams contributed to this post.

East Notes: Fins, Clay, Pats, Ayers, Washington

January 25th, 2015 at 4:43pm CST by Dallas Robinson

The Dolphins would like to re-sign impending free agent tight end Charles Clay, and are preparing an offer with the intention to submit it to Clay’s representatives in the coming weeks, according to Barry Jackson of the Miami Herald. Clay, who turns 26 in about three weeks, earned $1.431MM in base salary last season, and should be in for nice pay increase despite a somewhat disappointing campaign that saw him catch 58 passes for 589 yards and three touchdowns. I profiled Clay as an extension candidate before the season, and while the four-year, ~$21MM contract I projected at the time now seems a tad high, a $4MM AAV isn’t out of the question.

Let’s look at some more notes from the two East divisions:

  • In the same article, Jackson passes along some other Dolphins news, including Miami’s visit with defensive tackle prospect Danny Shelton, and league-wide interest in Dolphins executives Chris Grier and Adam Engroff.
  • The NFL bears significant responsibility in the DeflateGate scandal, argues Mike Florio of Pro Football Talk. Despite vowing to investigate the matter fully, the league hasn’t discovered much in the way of evidence or intent, writes Florio. Instead, the Patriots and the NFL as a whole are now being tarnished in what is the most important week in the league calendar.
  • Akeem Ayers doesn’t have any hard feelings towards the Titans regarding the trade that sent him to the Patriots, as the linebacker tells Mark Daniels of the Providence Journal. “They made a decision that they felt like they needed to make,” said Ayers. “…I just took it as motivation and especially being here on this team, I feel like they did me a favor, honestly…I came here and I did a good job here and we’re going to the Super Bowl.” New England acquired Ayers and a seventh-round pick for a 2015 sixth-rounder. A free agent at season’s end, the 25-year-old Ayers registered 20 tackles and four sacks in nine games with the Pats.
  • Washington would like to speak with Packers senior personnel executive Alonso Highsmith about its director of personnel position, but hasn’t heard back from Green Bay as of yet, tweets Mike Garafolo of FOX Sports.