Regardless of each Martin Mayhew and Marty Hurney having been key Ron Rivera lieutenants in Washington, each stayed on following the HC’s 2024 firing. Mayhew and Hurney had been a part of the employees that assembled the franchise’s first NFC championship sport entrant since 1991, however each are shifting on.
Mayhew, who was part of that famed 1991 Washington team as a cornerback, has announced his retirement, GM Adam Peters confirmed Tuesday. The former Lions and Commanders GM, who will turn 60 later this year, has been an NFL exec since 1999. He was in place as a senior personnel executive in 2024.
In place as an advisor to the GM, Hurney is no longer with the team after his contract expired, ESPN.com’s John Keim tweets. This isn’t essentially a firing, as Keim adds this was the anticipated path for Hurney, who twice served as Panthers GM earlier than rejoining Rivera in Washington.
As for Mayhew, he arrived for his second GM role in 2021. Rivera had operated as coach/GM, successfully, in 2020 however introduced in Mayhew for a Washington reunion. Mayhew performed 4 seasons with Washington (1989-92), beginning 48 video games for the workforce and amassing a Tremendous Bowl ring within the course of. He signed with Tampa Bay throughout a 1993 offseason that launched full-fledged free company to the NFL. Mayhew wrapped his profession after 4 Buccaneers seasons, transitioning to the personnel facet not lengthy after.
Serving underneath ex-teammate Matt Millen for eight years in Detroit, Mayhew succeeded him as GM and held the function for seven-plus years. The Lions fired Millen throughout their winless 2008 season, and Mayhew helped information them out of the abyss. The workforce’s 2009 Matthew Stafford draft alternative helped key playoff appearances in 2011 and ’14, with Mayhew’s Jim Caldwell rent additionally resulting in a 2016 playoff cameo. Although, the Lions had fired Mayhew by then. Mayhew served as one in every of ex-Bucs teammate John Lynch‘s lieutenants in San Francisco, being a part of the 2019 employees that turned the workforce from 4-12 to an NFC champion.
While Mayhew’s Washington GM tenure did not produce a steady contender, he will retire after spending 26 seasons as a personnel man. Hurney, 69, began in the personnel ranks near the outset of Mayhew’s cornerback career.
A former Bobby Beathard staffer in San Diego, Hurney worked his way up to Panthers GM by 2002. Hurney had worked in Carolina previously and was in place as GM when the Panthers booked their Super Bowl XXXVIII trip — a last-second loss to the Patriots. That GM stay lasted 11 years but ended after the 2012 season. Following their Dave Gettleman firing, the Panthers circled back to Hurney, whose second stint in the GM role ran from 2017-20.
Rivera hired Hurney as executive VP of player personnel in 2021. It is not known if Hurney is retiring for good, but he has spent more than 30 years as an NFL exec. The last of which came helping Peters, along with Mayhew, construct an unlikely Super Bowl contender.
As Peters builds his second Commanders team, the coaching staff will include Jesse Madden, who is the grandson of legendary coach/announcer John Madden. Jesse is certainly young in this profession, having recently graduated from Michigan. He was part of the Wolverines’ roster that won the national championship in 2023.
