After four years with the Boston College Eagles, Jeff Hafley decided that it was time to make the jump back to the pros. This time, with the Green Bay Packers, who hired Hafley as the team’s newest defensive coordinator.
New Green Bay Packers Coordinator Jeff Hafley Frustrated With College Football Recruitment Landscape Before Leaving for NFL.
It seems that the challenge of coaching wasn’t the only major driving force behind Hafley’s decision. It also appears that the landscape of college football, especially on the recruitment front.
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“How do you define tampering, right?,” he told On3 on Jan. 23. “Agents calling kids and telling kids that they can get them at this school for this amount of money and this school is interested. What’s true and what’s not true? I’ve had an example of hearsay. This school will take me out of the portal right now and give me this amount of money. And then I pick up the phone and call that school, call a buddy of mine, and it’s, ‘No, we don’t even know who that kid is.’”
Now that college is in his rearview mirror, Hafley will have a much different task at hand with the Green Bay Packers. As the successor of Joe Barry, Hafley is expected to get the team’s stop unit better. In 2023, the Packers ranked 13th in the NFL with 21.4 points allowed per game and just 22nd in total defense with 345.4 total yards given up per outing.
It can also be noted that this isn’t Hafley’s first rodeo in the NFL. Included in his resume are defensive coaching positions he held with the Pittsburgh Steelers., Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Cleveland Browns, and San Francisco 49ers.
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