Packers players and staff from Texas: WR Matthew Golden is from Harris County, Texas, and attended Klein Cain (Klein, Texas) High School…WR Savion Williams is from Marshall, Texas, and went to Marshall High School… TE Ben Sims is from San Antonio, Texas, where he attended Clark High School…Assistant defensive line coach Vince Oghobaase was born in Houston and attended Alief Hastings (Houston) High School…Defensive quality control coach Wendel Davis was born in Galveston, Texas, and attended Sweeny (Texas) High School…Packers players and staff who played college football in Texas: Golden played at Houston (2022-23) and Texas (2024)… Willliams played at TCU from 2020-24…Sims played at Baylor from 2018-22…LB Edgerrin Cooper played at Texas A&M from 2020-23…DL Barryn Sorrell played at Texas from 2021-24…Packers coaches who have coached in Texas: DBs coach Ryan Downard was a graduate assistant at Texas Tech in 2013…Davis was an ILBs coach/graduate assistant at West Texas A&M from 2010-12…Davis spent two seasons as the ILBs coach/travel coordinator at Texas A&M Commerce (2013-14) before serving as a defensive football analyst at Texas in 2015…Defensive assistant Jeff Koonz was a graduate assistant at Texas for two seasons (2005-06) and later returned to serve as a defensive quality control coach in 2009…Koonz spent two seasons on the coaching staff at North Texas, where he served as the LBs coach (2017) and the co-defensive coordinator/LBs coach (2018)…Cowboys with connections to Wisconsin: TE Jake Ferguson attended Vel Phillips Memorial High School in Madison, Wis., and played at Wisconsin from 2017-21…MLB Jack Sanborn played at Wisconsin from 2018-21…Vice president of player personnel Will McClay was the defensive coordinator for the Milwaukee Mustangs (Arena Football League) in 1995… Former Cowboys: DL Micah Parsons was a first-round pick (No. 12 overall) by the Cowboys in 2021 and played for Dallas from 2021-24…Assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia spent five seasons with Dallas, serving as the team’s special teams coordinator (2013-14) and the assistant head coach/special teams coordinator (2015-17)…Offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich spent time on the Cowboys’ roster during training camp in 2008…Former Packers: DT Kenny Clark played for the Packers from 2016-24 and was the second defensive tackle in team history to be named to three-plus Pro Bowls…Game management coordinator Ryan Feder spent four seasons with the Packers (2015- 18), serving as a football technology analyst…Notable NFL connections: Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was on the Atlanta Falcons’ coaching staff from 2015-16, where he crossed paths with Cowboys CB C.J. Goodwin… Cowboys defensive assistant/quality control coach Tanzel Smart played for the Los Angeles Rams in 2017 when LaFleur was on the coaching staff…Cowboys head coach Brian Schottenheimer was an offensive assistant for the Kansas City Chiefs in 1998, where he overlapped with Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst, who was a scouting assistant, and executive vice president/director of football operations Russ Ball, who was an administrative assistant to the head coach…Schottenheimer and Ball also crossed paths at the Washington Redskins, where Ball was the director of football administration and Schottenheimer was the QBs coach in 2001… Ball worked in football administration for the New Orleans Saints when Cowboys director of pro scouting Alex Loomis served as an operations intern (2000-06) and scouting intern (2007-09)…Schottenheimer was the offensive coordinator for the St. Louis Rams from 2012-14 when Packers RBs coach Ben Sirmans was on the coaching staff and special teams quality control coach Cory Harkey played there…Packers senior assistant Luke Getsy was the Chicago Bears’ offensive coordinator from 2022-23 when Cowboys defensive coordinator Matt Eberflus was the head coach and MLB Jack Sanborn played there…Getsy also worked with Cowboys LBs coach Dave Borgonzi, defensive passing game coordinator/ safeties coach Andre Curtis, secondary/CBs coach David Overstreet II and assistant special teams coach Carlos Polk in his time with the Bears…Bisaccia, Packers assistant special teams coach Byron Storer and passing game coordinator Derrick Ansley were on the Las Vegas Raiders’ coaching staff when Cowboys LS Trent Sieg played there… Bisaccia and Storer were on the coaching staff when DT Solomon Thomas played for the Raiders in 2021…Sieg and Thomas were teammates with Packers RB Josh Jacobs, CB Nate Hobbs and CB Keisean Nixon during their time with the Raiders in 2021…Stenavich, Oghobaase and Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and were on the coaching staff in San Francisco when Thomas played for the 49ers…Bisaccia was the San Diego Chargers’ special teams coordinator when Cowboys assistant special teams coach Carlos Polk was a special teams assistant there from 2010-12….Notable college connections: Cowboys CB Trevon Diggs was teammates with Packers S Xavier McKinney and Jacobs at Alabama…Diggs also overlapped with Ansley during his time at Alabama…Hafley was the head coach at Boston College when Cowboys DE Donovan Ezeiruaku played there and when QBs coach Steve Shimko was on the coaching staff…Packers LBs coach Sean Duggan was also on Boston College’s coaching staff when Ezeiruaku and Shimko were there…Packers S Evan Williams and Cowboys CB DaRon Bland were teammates at Fresno State in 2021…Packers C/G Elgton Jenkins and Cowboys QB Dak Prescott played together at Mississippi State from 2014-15…Packers T Rasheed Walker, Parsons and Cowboys RB Miles Sanders were teammates at Penn State in 2018…Packers S Javon Bullard, DL Devonte Wyatt, LB Quay Walker, TE John FitzPatrick, DL Nazir Stackhouse and DL Warren Brinson were teammates with Cowboys WR George Pickens at Georgia…Other notable connections: Golden and Cowboys RB Jaydon Blue were teammates at Klein Cain High School.
