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We’re weeks removed from the 2025 NFL Draft and Patriots executive Eliot Wolf remains in Foxboro, Mass.
Sports Illustrated’s Albert Breer believes it’ll stay that way.
Many questioned if Wolf would reside in New England after NFL draft. There tends to be some front office movement following the event, after all, and the Patriots executive vice president of player personnel did not come in with the new head coach Mike Vrabel.
“I don’t think things are nearly as bad in New England as you may have been led to believe,” Breer wrote in a column published Wednesday. “And I think the proof of it is in the hire of A.J. Highsmith as the team’s new pro scouting director. Highsmith is the son of Alonzo Highsmith, who is the right-hand man to EVP of player personnel Eliot Wolf. Hiring someone that close to Wolf into a vital director’s role is a good indication that Wolf’s going nowhere.”
Breer shared another connection which seems to indicate Wolf is in solid standing: Tennessee Titans president of football operations Chad Brinker.
“The connection many people didn’t make is Mike Vrabel’s link to fellow Ohioan Chad Brinker,” Breer wrote. “Brinker and Vrabel worked together for a year in Tennessee and had a strong relationship. Brinker is very close to Wolf, with whom he spent nearly a decade with in Green Bay. Vrabel learned the Packers’ scouting system in his time with Brinker and talked to Brinker about Wolf before taking the Patriots job.”
Breer admitted there’s always a possibility things could change. However, he is of the belief vice president of player personnel Ryan Cowden, Vrabel and Wolf are on the same page entering the 2025 campaign.
