The @Browns have decided to officially part ways with assistant GM Elliot Wolf and VP/personnel Alonzo Highsmith now that Andrew Berry has been hired as GM, per sources
— Chris Mortensen (@mortreport) January 29, 2020
Former Green Bay Packers personnel executives Eliot Wolf and Alonzo Highsmith lasted only two years with the Cleveland Browns.
According to Chris Mortensen of ESPN, the Browns are parting ways with both Wolf and Highsmith after hiring Andrew Berry as the team’s new general manager.
After some confusion about Wolf’s status Wednesday, Tom Pelissero of NFL Network confirmed Wolf and the Browns would split.
Highsmith, who spent 19 years with the Packers, was hired by the Browns as vice president of player personnel in 2018. Wolf, the son of Hall of Fame general manager Ron Wolf, joined Highsmith in Cleveland after losing out on the Packers general manager job. He was named the Browns assistant general manager.
Both were lured to Cleveland by former Packers executive John Dorsey. The Browns parted ways with Dorsey on Dec. 31.
Wolf originally joined the Packers as a pro personnel assistant in 2004. He eventually served as director of player personnel, director of pro personnel and director of football operations.
Highsmith was hired by Ron Wolf as a college scout in 1999. He eventually earned a promotion to senior personnel executive under Ted Thompson in 2012.
The Packers hired Brian Gutekunst to replace Thompson in 2018. Both Wolf and Highsmith worked with Gutekunst, a long-time scout, in Green Bay, but a reunion is probably unlikely. Milt Hendrickson, Jon-Eric Sullivan and John Wojciechowski are now the highest-ranking members of Gutekunst’s front office.