Packers players and staff from New York: LB Isaiah McDuffie (Buffalo), assistant WRs coach Rob Grosso (Lackawanna), assistant special teams Jeff Koonz (Wallkill), assistant director of pro scouting Mike Owen (Riverhead)…Packers players and staff from New Jersey: WR Bo Melton (Egg Harbor City), RBs coach Ben Sirmans (East Orange), defensive quality control coach Will Smart (Morristown), senior national scout Sam Seale (Orange) and general counsel Kevin Manara (North Plainfield)… Packers players and staff who played college football in New York/New Jersey: Melton played at Rutgers from 2017-21…LB Zaire Franklin played at Syracuse from 2014-17…Packers coaches who have coached in New York/New Jersey: Passing game coordinator Jason Vrable coached at Syracuse for two seasons, working as offensive quality control/assistant to the WRs coach in 2009 and as a graduate assistant/assistant to the QBs coach in 2010…Defensive analyst Scott Fuchs was the OL coach for the University at Buffalo from 2019-20…Jets with connections to Wisconsin: RB Braelon Allen is from Fond du Lac, Wis., went to Fond du Lac High School and played at Wisconsin (2021-23)…C Joe Tippmann played at Wisconsin from 2019-22…EDGE Will McDonald IV was born in Pewaukee, Wis. and attended Waukesha (Wis.) North High School…Safeties coach Ryan Slowik played at Wisconsin-Oshkosh for three seasons (2001-03) before becoming the assistant secondary coach there in 2004… Former Jets: QB Tyrod Taylor played for the Jets for two seasons (2024-25)…Vrable was an offensive assistant with the Jets from 2017-18…TEs coach John Dunn spent the 2019 and 2020 seasons in the same role with the Jets…Senior player personnel executive/director of pro scouting Lee Gissendaner worked as a national scout for the Jets from 2015-17…Former Packers: FB Andrew Beck played in three games for the Packers in 2024…C Josh Myers played for the Packers for four seasons (2021-24)… EDGE Kingsley Enagbare played for the Packers from 2022- 25…Special teams coordinator Chris Banjo played for the Packers from 2013-16…Special teams assistant coach Randall Jette was signed by Green Bay as an undrafted free agent in 2016…Slowik was a personnel intern for 5 the Packers in 2003…Notable NFL connections: Packers defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon was the Atlanta Falcons’ defensive assistant/quality control coach when Jets QBs coach Bill Musgrave coached QBs for the Falcons in 2007…Packers OL coach Luke Butkus and Jets special teams assistant Kevin O’Dea worked together at Chicago in 2007…Packers QBs/assistant head coach – offense Luke Getsy was the offensive coordinator for the Las Vegas Raiders when Jets OL Jordan Meredith and OL Dylan Parham played for the Raiders in 2024…Packers CBs coach Daniel Bullocks played for the Detroit Lions from 2006-09 when Jets WRs coach Shawn Jefferson was on the Lions’ coaching staff…Vrable and Jets DL coach Karl Dunbar coached together with the Buffalo Bills in 2015…Packers secondary/pass game coordinator Bobby Babich was on the Bills’ coaching staff when Jets DL Harrison Phillips played for the Bills from 2018-21…Packers offensive quality control coach T.C. McCartney was the Cleveland Browns’ TEs coach in 2023 when Musgrave was senior offensive assistant…Babich crossed paths with Jets head coach Aaron Glenn and defensive coordinator Brian Duker with the Browns in 2015…McCartney was the QBs coach for the New England Patriots when Jets OL Chukwuma Okorafor played there in 2024…Packers executive V.P./ director of football operations Russ Ball worked for the Kansas City Chiefs when Jets TEs coach Alfredo Roberts played for the Chiefs from 1988-90…Duker and Slowik coached for the Miami Dolphins when Smith played there in 2024…Siefkes was on the Minnesota Vikings’ coaching staff when Phillips and Jets RB Kene Nwangwu played for the Vikings…Packers DT Jonathan Ford and Jets DB Nahshon Wright were teammates with the Chicago Bears in 2025…Wright and Packers EDGE Micah Parsons played together with the Dallas Cowboys for three seasons (2021-23)…Jets K Blake Grupe, WR Adonai Mitchell and TE Jelani Woods were teammates with Franklin with the Indianapolis Colts…Gannon and Jets offensive coordinator Frank Reich coached together in Indianapolis from 2018- 20…Reich was the head coach of the Colts when Franklin played there…Notable college connections: Enagbare and Packers CB Keisean Nixon played together at South Carolina in 2018…Enagbare was also teammates with Packers RB MarShawn Lloyd at South Carolina from 2020-21…Jets S Minkah Fitzpatrick was teammates with Packers S Xavier McKinney at Alabama in 2017…Dunbar was the DL coach at Alabama when McKinney played there…Jets OL Olu Fashanu was teammates with Packers EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton at Penn State…Packers LB Nick Niemann and EDGE Lukas Van Ness were teammates with Jets S Dane Belton at Iowa…Packers TE Tucker Kraft and Jets RB Isaiah Davis played together at South Dakota State for three seasons (2020-22)…Packers DT Anthony Campbell was teammates with Jets LB Kiko Mauigoa at Miami from 2023-24…Packers EDGE Barryn Sorrell and Jets DL T’Vondre Sweat were teammates at Texas from 2021-23…Mitchell and Jets WR Arian Smith crossed paths with Packers DT Devonte Wyatt, DT Warren Brinson, S Javon Bullard and assistant OL coach Eddie Gordon at Georgia…Packers DL coach Vince Oghobaase was the DL coach at UCLA when Jets CB Brandon Stephens played there in 2018…Packers CB Carrington Valentine, C/G Jager Burton and Jets LB Trevin Wallace were teammates at Kentucky…Wright and Packers S Kitan Oladapo played together at Oregon State from 2019-20…Packers strength and conditioning assistant Jake Flint was the director of athletic development at LSU when Jets assistant strength and conditioning coach Scott Kuehn was the manager of applied sports science from 2022-25…Other notable connections: Bill Musgrave is Packers TE Luke Musgrave’s uncle…Slowik’s father, Bob Slowik, spent five years on Green Bay’s coaching staff, serving as the DBs coach (2000-03) and defensive coordinator (2004).
