The Dolphins’ coaching staff shakeup continues as another assistant lands a new role elsewhere

Another suspected change is now official.

Kyle Crabbs — NFL National Writer
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Aug 27, 2022; Miami Gardens, Florida, USA; Miami Dolphins quarterback Tua Tagovailoa (1) talks to quarterback and passing coordinator Darrell Bevell prior to the game against the Philadelphia Eagles at Hard Rock Stadium. Mandatory Credit: Sam Navarro-USA TODAY Sports

The changes to the Miami Dolphins keep rolling in. This one was long suspected — but is now official.

Miami’s offensive coaching staff has seen a series of maneuvers, courtesy of firings, hirings elsewhere or even in the case of Bobby Slowik, a promotion. Mike McDaniel took Butch Barry and Chandler Henley with him to Los Angeles upon getting the Chargers gig. Jon Embree is reportedly out as the tight ends coach, as is long-time Dolphins running backs coach Eric Studesville. Heck, even one of head coach Jeff Hafley‘s new offensive hires, Nathaniel Hackett, came and went within a week. And it’s that very post Hackett was meant to fill at quarterbacks coach that’s now been ensured change. The man who held the post in 2025, Darrell Bevell, is headed to Carolina.

Former Dolphins quarterbacks coach Darrell Bevell lands a new gig with the Panthers

Bevell is changing out Alabama quarterbacks — he’ll go from Tua Tagovailoa in Miami to Bryce Young in Carolina. Bevell has spent the majority of his higher-up time in the NFL coaching unorthodox quarterbacks, from Russell Wilson in Seattle as an offensive coordinator, Tagovailoa and now Young.

The hire makes what we’ve long suspected now official. Miami will have a different coach at the front of the quarterback room in 2026. That coach was thought to be Nathaniel Hackett before the Arizona Cardinals came knocking with an offensive coordinator gig. Once Hackett left, there was some degree of question on whether or not Jeff Hafley would fall back on the incumbent for the role.

That won’t happen now. And it assures yet another step in the wholesale changes that have come to Miami this offseason. It’s probably not a bad thing. But it’s also now an official thing, too. Bevell is out in Miami.

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