The Green Bay Packers and Miami Dolphins are going to be tied together for the foreseeable future after the Dolphins hired head coach Jeff Hafley and general manager Jon-Eric Sullivan from Green Bay this offseason, on top of other additions from the Packers that included quarterback Malik Willis. With that in mind, I took the time to look at who the Dolphins brought in as pre-draft visitors, just as a matter of curiosity. What I found was that there was a lot of crossover between Miami and Green Bay, meaning that their lists could be a potential proxy for who the other is interested in.

Let’s get into it, starting with all of the Dolphins’ visitors.

#30: OT Max Iheanachor, Arizona State (Packers visitor)

#47: iDL Christen Miller, Georgia (Packers visitor)

#160: CB Charles Demmings, Stephen F. Austin (Packers visitor)

First of all, we need to mention here that the Packers and Dolphins are in very different situations going into the draft. Green Bay doesn’t have a first-round pick this year, due to the Micah Parsons trade, so Miami is bringing in players who are projected to be much higher picks, in general, than the Packers are. For example, the highest-ranked player that Green Bay brought in was Arizona State tackle Max Iheanachor (sixth-ranked for the Dolphins), and he’s followed by Georgia defensive tackle Christen Miller (11-ranked for Miami).

The Packers are also using more of their visits on undrafted free agent types, which was what the team almost exclusively used visits for up until Covid — when their visit strategy changed. With all of that out of the way, the non-first-rounders who are projected draft picks for both Green Bay and Miami have a lot of crossover.

Both teams had Iheanachor, Miller, safety A.J. Haulcy, receiver Ted Hurst, cornerback Charles Demmings and running back Kaelon Black in for visits. On top of that, my ears are up on Miami bringing in Missouri EDGE Zion Young and Iowa quarterback Mark Gronowski for trips to South Florida.

As I reported after the combine, there’s been a lot of buzz about the Packers’ staff liking the idea of Young with pick #52. Whether or not he’ll be available is a whole separate story, but it is interesting that Sullivan, who worked in Green Bay’s front office from 2004 to 2025, spent one of the team’s limited 30 visits on him.

Gronowski is also interesting to me because I was told by sources in the scouting community that there was clear interest from Green Bay for the South Dakota State transfer. Gronowski’s offensive coordinator with the Hawkeyes in 2025 was Tim Lester, who spent 2023 as a senior analyst with the Packers after his stint as a head coach at Western Michigan. At the time, Gronowski was coached at the East-West Shrine Bowl by then-Packers quarterbacks coach Sean Mannion, who has since taken the offensive coordinator job with the Philadelphia Eagles.

So, as far as I see it, half of Miami’s visits have some sort of ties to Green Bay, and that’s with the Dolphins bringing in high draft picks that won’t be available when the Packers first pick at #52, and Miami bringing in a ton of quarterbacks and receivers for visits — positions that are not high priorities for Green Bay.

All I’m saying is it wouldn’t surprise me if the Packers ended up taking a guy who Miami brought in for a visit, but Green Bay didn’t, during draft week. The two lists seem aligned enough that Packers fans should probably start paying attention to what the Dolphins are doing moving forward.