Jaguars head coach Doug Pederson played quarterback for the Packers for seven seasons (1996-98, 2001-04), serving as the backup QB on Green Bay teams that won Super Bowl XXXI and two NFC titles…Packers DL T.J. Slaton is from Plantation, Fla., attended American Heritage High School and played collegiately at Florida (2017-20)…Packers WR Christian Watson is from Tampa, Fla., where he attended H.B. Plant High School…Packers LB Ty’Ron Hopper (2019-21), DL Brenton Cox Jr. (2020-22) and T Kadeem Telfort (2017) played at Florida…Packers K Brandon McManus kicked for Jacksonville during the 2023 season…Packers DL coach Jason Rebrovich was on the Jaguars’ coaching staff for four seasons (2017-20)…Packers OL coach Luke Butkus served as Jacksonville’s assistant OL coach from 2013-15…Packers director of player personnel John Wojciechowski worked for the Jaguars (1998-2002)…Packers director of college scouting Matt Malaspina served as an offensive assistant at Jacksonville University (1997-98)…Packers chief of staff Darryl Franklin worked in Jacksonville, Fla., as a scouting assistant for BLESTO in 2010-11…Jaguars S Darnell Savage was drafted by Green Bay in the first round (No. 21 overall) of the 2019 NFL Draft and played five seasons with the Packers (2019-23)…Jaguars TE Josiah Deguara was drafted by Green Bay in the third round (No. 94 overall) of the 2020 NFL Draft and played four seasons with the Packers (2020-23)…Jaguars OL Cole Van Lanen, who was drafted by the Packers in the sixth round (No. 214 overall) of the 2021 NFL Draft and played in one game for the Packers in 2021, is from Green Bay, Wis., attended Bay Port High School and played collegiately at Wisconsin (2017-20)…Jaguars QBs coach Mike McCoy was on the Packers’ practice squad during his rookie season in 1995…Jaguars general manager Trent Baalke was born in Milwaukee, Wis., and grew up in Rosendale, Wis., where he attended Laconia High School…Jaguars assistant OLBs coach Mario Jeberaeel spent time with Green Bay in the 2019 offseason as part of the Bill Walsh Minority Fellowship program, assisting with the offensive line…Jaguars OL coach/run game coordinator Phil Rauscher was on the Vikings’ coaching staff when Packers offensive assistant Sean Mannion was a player for Minnesota (2020-21)…Packers assistant special teams coach Byron Storer was on McCoy’s staff in 2013 when he served as the head coach for the Chargers…Butkus and Jaguars DBs coach Kris Richard were on Seattle’s coaching staff together in 2010-11…Rebrovich and Jaguars assistant ILBs coach Patrick Reilly were on the coaching staff together at SUNY Cortland in 2010…Reilly was also a defensive analyst at Alabama when Packers S Xavier McKinney and RB Josh Jacobs played for the Crimson Tide…Packers passing game coordinator (defense) Derrick Ansley was on Kentucky’s coaching staff when Jaguars DE Josh Hines-Allen was a player for the Wildcats in 2015…Packers TEs coach John Dunn was a player (2003) and a student assistant (2004) when Jaguars ILBs coach Matt House was on the University of North Carolina’s staff in 2003-04…Jaguars assistant QBs coach Andrew Breiner served as the passing game coordinator/QBs coach at Mississippi State during Packers G/T Elgton Jenkins’ final season playing for the Bulldogs in 2018…Jaguars offensive QC coach Jamel Mutunga was an offensive assistant/RBs at Rutgers in 2020-21 when Packers WR Bo Melton played for the Scarlet Knights…Packers WRs coach Ryan Mahaffey coached with Jaguars assistant secondary coach/defensive analyst Mike Gray at Western Kentucky in 2017…McKinney, Packers CB Corey Ballentine and Jaguars TE Evan Engram were teammates with the N.Y. Giants…Packers DL Preston Smith and Jaguars OL Brandon Scherff were teammates with Washington (2015-18)…Former collegiate teammates: McKinney, Jacobs, Jaguars QB Mac Jones and OL Cam Robinson (Alabama); Packers S Javon Bullard, LB Quay Walker, DL Devonte Wyatt, TE John FitzPatrick and Jaguars DE Travon Walker (Georgia); Packers T Rasheed Walker, Jaguars TE Brenton Strange and TE Parker Washington (Penn State); Packers LB Edgerrin Cooper and Jaguars S Antonio Johnson (Texas A&M); Packers C/G Josh Myers, Jaguars TE Luke Farrell and DT DaVon Hamilton (Ohio State).
