The New York Giants announced today the hiring of head athletic trainer Adam Bennett, who held the same role at the University of Miami since 2023.

Ronnie Barnes, who joined the organization in 1976 and has overseen the team's medical services since 1981, will continue in that role. Barnes was inducted into the Giants Ring of Honor in 2022.

Bennett helped elevate Miami over his three seasons with the program, which boasted a school-record 19 players who earned all-conference honors in 2025, when the Hurricanes set a school record for wins in a single season, finishing 13-3 and as the No. 10 seed for its maiden appearance in the College Football Playoff. While posting back-to-back 10-win seasons for the first time in two decades, Miami advanced all the way to the national championship game last month.

Prior to Miami, Bennett worked at Special Operations Command Headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Fla., where he worked with injured service members.

"In athletics, we see the injury happen 99 times out of 100. In the military, you're dealing with injuries that might be six, 10, 12 years old and they just didn't deal with it because they were going on deployment after deployment and they had to go, go, go," Bennett said in 2024 interview with the Hurricanes' official website. "So, you're dealing with more chronic injuries and your evaluation skills improve and change, which is a great way to learn. You're learning hands-on, in that moment. …

"It's hard to really express the appreciation for what they do for us, but it was meaningful to help those men and women out. It was a different challenge. I learned a lot. I feel like I had worked in football for nine or 10 years by then, so seeing it from a different perspective and learning what [service members] go through and learning the risks they deal with while training and deploying, the injuries they deal with, was eye-opening. It was a different perspective."

From 2017 to 2021, Bennett was the head athletic trainer at Florida Atlantic University, where he was also an assistant in 2015. Additionally, Bennett served as an assistant athletic trainer at the University of Minnesota in 2016.

Bennett previously completed two NFL internships with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2014) and Houston Texans (2011). He graduated from Florida State in 2012 with a B.S. in Athletic Training before earning his M.S. from the University of Southern Mississippi in Sports Management in 2014.

Bennett is a certified athletic trainer, strength and conditioning specialist, and holds a certified performance sports scientist certification.