{"id":705306,"date":"2026-01-26T02:12:47","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:12:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/705306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T02:12:47","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T02:12:47","slug":"dolphins-interview-clint-hurtt-for-defensive-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/705306\/","title":{"rendered":"Dolphins interview Clint Hurtt for defensive coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Miami Dolphins<\/a> coach Jeff Hafley\u2019s first known interview for his defensive coordinator vacancy is a former Miami Hurricanes player and assistant coach.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins interviewed Philadelphia Eagles defensive line coach Clint Hurtt for the job, according to an ESPN report<\/a> Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

Hurtt was a defensive tackle for UM from 1997 to 2000. He got his coaching career started as a graduate assistant in 2003 and 2004 and then became Miami\u2019s defensive line coach from 2006 through 2009.<\/p>\n

Hurtt has previous coordinating experience, leading the Seattle Seahawks defense in 2022 and 2023 under Pete Carroll.<\/p>\n

He currently leads one of the NFL\u2019s top defensive lines with the Eagles, whose dominance at the line of scrimmage helped lead them to a win in last season\u2019s Super Bowl. Hurtt has coached the likes of defensive tackles Jalen Carter, Jordan Davis, Milton Williams and Brandon Graham in Philadelphia.<\/p>\n

After his time with the Hurricanes, Hurtt went to Louisville for four seasons and had a stint with the Chicago Bears before working his way up with the Seahawks to defensive coordinator in Seattle.<\/p>\n

The Dolphins have had Anthony Weaver as defensive coordinator under previous coach Mike McDaniel the past two seasons.<\/p>\n

Weaver is up for multiple head coach openings with the Baltimore Ravens, Pittsburgh Steelers, Buffalo Bills and Arizona Cardinals.<\/p>\n

Miami would be in line to pick up a compensatory third-round pick if one of those teams hire him as a head coach. Under the Rooney rule, an NFL team that loses a minority coach to a head coaching vacancy picks up the extra draft pick.<\/p>\n

Hafley, who has a defensive background, has already said he\u2019ll call defensive plays<\/a>, so his defensive coordinator hire won\u2019t have that freedom.<\/p>\n

He has also said he wants to move quickly to add coordinators<\/a>, setting a preliminary goal of hiring them over the weekend.<\/p>\n

On Friday night, Hafley made the first hire on his coaching staff<\/a>, bringing aboard Chris Tabor as special teams coordinator.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Miami Dolphins coach Jeff Hafley\u2019s first known interview for his defensive coordinator vacancy is a former Miami…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":705307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2049],"tags":[102606,217,7,8628,216,251,2087,6],"class_list":["post-705306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-dolphins","tag-clint-hurtt","tag-dolphins","tag-football","tag-jeff-hafley","tag-miami","tag-miami-dolphins","tag-miamidolphins","tag-nfl"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115958985817272741","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=705306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/705306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/705307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=705306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=705306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=705306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}