Packers players and staff from Ohio: CB Carrington Valentine was born in Cincinnati, where he attended Moeller High School…LBs coach Sean Duggan was born in Cincinnati, where he attended St. Xavier High School…DBs coach Ryan Downard is from Lima, Ohio… Senior personnel executive Lee Gissendaner is from Akron, Ohio, and attended Stow-Munroe Falls High School in Stow, Ohio…Packers players and staff who played college football in Ohio: DL Karl Brooks played at Bowling Green from 2018-22…Senior assistant Luke Getsy played at Akron from 2005-06…Offensive quality control coach Rob Grosso played at John Carroll from 2011-13…Passing game coordinator Jason Vrable played at Marietta from 2003-06…Packers coaches who have coached in Ohio: Head coach Matt LaFleur was the offensive coordinator at Ashland University in 2007…Defensive assistant Jeff Koonz was on the coaching staff at the University of Cincinnati for three seasons, serving as the safeties coach (2014) and the LBs coach (2015-16)…Defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley was the co-defensive coordinator/secondary coach at Ohio State in 2019…Vrable was the QBs coach at Marietta College in 2007…Downard was a graduate assistant at Toledo in 2013…Downard spent two seasons at Bowling Green, serving as the director of football operations (2016) and the safeties coach (2017)…Duggan was a graduate assistant at Ohio State in 2019…Assistant defensive line coach Vince Oghobaase was a graduate assistant at Ohio State from 2013-15…Defensive quality control coach Jamael Lett was a graduate assistant at Ohio in 2016…Lett was the secondary coach at Akron in 2020…Getsy was a graduate assistant at Akron from 2007-08…RBs coach Ben Sirmans served in the same role at Kent State from 2000-04…Grosso was a student coaching/recruiting assistant at John Caroll from 2014-15…Packers staff with connections to Ohio: President & chief executive officer Ed Policy is from Youngstown, Ohio…Director of performance psychology and team behavioral health clinician Dr. Chris Carr worked at Ohio State from 1995-2000…Bengals with connections to Wisconsin: Director of player performance/head strength and conditioning coach Joey Boese played for Wisconsin from 1998-01…Bengals assistant QBs coach Fredi Knighten was born in Kenosha, Wis. …Former Bengals: Strength and conditioning assistant Todd Hunt spent five seasons with the Bengals in the same role (2019-23)…Former Packers: Defensive line/run game coordinator Jerry Montgomery spent nine seasons on the Packers’ coaching staff, serving as a defensive front assistant (2015-17) and the defensive line coach (2018-23)…LB Oren Burks was a third-round draft pick (No. 88 overall) by the Packers in 2018 and played for Green Bay from 2018-21…DT T.J. Slaton Jr. was a fifth-round draft pick (No. 173 overall) by the Packers in 2021 and played for Green Bay from 2021-24…DT Mike Pennel signed with the Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2014 and played for Green Bay from 2014-16…Notable NFL connections: Bengals head coach Zac Taylor was on the Los Angeles Rams’ coaching staff in 2017 when LaFleur was the offensive coordinator…Taylor was the Rams’ QBs coach in 2018 when Packers QBs coach Sean Mannion played for the Rams…LaFleur was on the Houston Texans’ coaching staff in 2009 when Bengals TEs coach James Casey played there…Casey was also teammates with Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich when they played for the Texans in 2009…During his playing career, Stenavich spent time with the Carolina Panthers in the 2006 offseason, where he was teammates with Bengals OL coach Scott Peters…Bengals QB Jake Browning was on the Minnesota Vikings’ practice squad from 2019-20, when Mannion also played for the Vikings…Packers S Xavier McKinney and Bengals DT B.J. Hill were teammates with the N.Y. Giants in 2020…Packers defensive line/ run game coordinator DeMarcus Covington crossed paths with Bengals TE Mike Gesicki, C Ted Karras, CB Marco Wilson, assistant OL coach Michael McCarthy, Peters and Mongomery during his time on the New England Patriots’ coaching staff from 2017-24…Wilson, McCarthy, Peters and Montgomery overlapped with Lett when he was on the Patriots’ coaching staff in 2024…Notable college connections: Packers QB Jordan Love played at Utah State when Bengals QBs coach Brad Kragthorpe was a graduate assistant there from 2016-17…Koonz and Taylor were both on the coaching staff at Cincinnati in 2016…Bengals RB Chase Brown and Packers CB Nate Hobbs were teammates at Illinois from 2019-20…Packers OL coach Luke Butkus served in the same role at Illinois in 2012 when Karras played there…Packers LB Edgerrin Cooper, Bengals DE Shemar Stewart and DT McKinnley Jackson were teammates at Texas A&M…Bengals defensive coordinator Al Golden was the head coach at Temple for a portion of Packers K Brandon McManus’ tenure there (2009-10)…Bengals senior defensive assistant Sean Desai was the OLBs coach/special teams coordinator at Temple when McManus played there in 2010…Packers RB Josh Jacobs and McKinney were teammates with Bengals S Jordan Battle at Alabama…Stenavich was on Michigan’s coaching staff when Montgomery was the DL coach and when Bengals secondary/safeties coach Jordan Kovacs played there from 2011-12…Packers LB Quay Walker, S Javon Bullard, DL Devonte Wyatt, TE John FitzPatrick, DL Nazir Stackhouse and DL Warren Brinson were teammates with Bengals WR Jermaine Burton, G Dylan Fairchild and OT Amarius Mims at Georgia in 2021…Burton, Mims and Fairchild also overlapped with Packers assistant OL coach Eddie Gordon at Georgia… Other notable connections: Taylor’s father-in-law is former Packers head coach Mike Sherman…Bengals DT Kris Jenkins Jr. is the nephew of Cullen Jenkins, who played defensive line for the Packers for seven seasons (2004-10).
