Packers players and staff from Colorado: Pass game specialist/game management coach Connor Lewis is from Littleton, Colo., and attended Chatfield High School… Packers players and staff who played college football in Colorado: National scout Sam Seale was a four-year letterman at Western State College in Gunnison, Colo., where he was elected to the Western State College Hall of Fame in 2002…Packers staff with connections to Colorado: Director of performance psychology and team behavioral health clinician Dr. Christopher Carr was a clinical research assistant at the United States Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colo., from 1989-90…Broncos with connections to Wisconsin: G/C Quinn Meinerz is from Hartford, Wis., and played collegiately at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater… ILB Jordan Turner played four seasons at Wisconsin (2020-23)…Defensive pass game coordinator/assistant head coach Jim Leonhard is from Tony, Wis., and played at Wisconsin from 2001-04…Leonhard then coached at Wisconsin (2016-22), serving as the Badgers’ defensive coordinator from 2017-21 and as the interim head coach for the final eight games in 2022…Director of strength and conditioning Shaun Snee spent eight seasons (2015-22) at Wisconsin, serving as the director of football strength and conditioning for his final two years…Assistant strength and conditioning coach Taylor Porter is from Algoma, Wis., and played at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh… Vice president of football operations Kelly Kleine Van Calligan is from Sheboygan, Wis., where she attended Sheboygan North High School…Former Broncos: K Brandon McManus played for the Broncos for nine seasons (2014-22) and was a member of the team that won Super Bowl 50 in the 2015 season…LB Kristian Welch played for the Broncos for a portion of the 2024 season… RB Emanuel Wilson entered the league as an undrafted free agent with the Broncos in May 2023…Offensive quality control coach Rob Grosso started his NFL career with the Broncos as a training-camp operations intern in 2015-16, an operations intern in 2017 and an assistant to the head coach in 2018 under current Broncos defensive coordinator Vance Joseph…Vice president of communications Jason Wahlers began his NFL career as a PR intern with the Broncos in 2001-02…Former Packers: TE Marcedes Lewis played for the Packers for five seasons (2018-22)…Senior defensive assistant Joe Vitt coached defensive backs for the Packers in 1999… Assistant strength and conditioning coach Korey Jones was a linebacker for the Packers during the 2014 pre-season…Notable NFL connections: Broncos assistant to head coach Paul Kelly was on the staff in Tampa Bay with Packers assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia and when Packers assistant special teams coach Byron Storer played for the Buccaneers…Kelly was on the Washington Redskins’ staff with Packers head coach Matt LaFleur from 2010-13…LaFleur and Broncos assistant OL coach Chris Morgan were both on the Redskins’ coaching staff from 2011-13 and on the Atlanta Falcons’ coaching staff together from 2015-16…Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley was Leonhard’s position coach in Cleveland in 2014…Packers DBs coach Ryan Downard was also on the Browns’ staff when Leonhard played there in 2014…Bisaccia and Storer coached on the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders’ staff with Broncos TEs coach Austin King (2020-21) and CBs coach Addison Lynch (2021)…King and Lynch also crossed paths with Packers CB Nate Hobbs, CB Keisean Nixon and RB Josh Jacobs during their time with the Raiders…Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich and Hafley were on San Francisco’s coaching staff when Broncos T Mike McGlinchey and DT D.J. Jones played for the 49ers…Broncos LB Dre Greenlaw also played for the 49ers when Stenavich and Packers strength and conditioning coordinator Aaron Hill were on the coaching staff and G Aaron Banks played there…Banks and Broncos S Talanoa Hufanga were teammates in San Francisco for four seasons (2021-24)…Broncos offensive passing game coordinator/QBs coach Davis Webb played for the N.Y. Jets in 2018 when Packers passing game coordinator Jason Vrable was on the coaching staff… Leonhard played for the Bills in 2013 when Vrable was on the coaching staff…Webb and Broncos TE Evan Engram were teammates with Packers S Xavier McKinney with the N.Y. Giants…Broncos general manager George Paton was the Minnesota Vikings’ assistant general manager/ vice president of player personnel in 2020 when Packers QB Sean Mannion played for the Vikings…Joseph served in the same role for the Arizona Cardinals and DL Zach Allen played for the Cardinals when Grosso was on the coaching staff from 2019-22…Packers senior assistant Luke Getsy was the Chicago Bears’ offensive coordinator for two seasons, where he worked with King and Morgan, and when Lewis played for the Bears…Broncos offensive coordinator Joe Lombardi and LBs coach Isaac Shewmaker served on the L.A. Chargers’ coaching staff from 2021- 22 with Packers passing game coordinator (defense) Derrick Ansley…King played for the Buccaneers in 2003 when Bisaccia was on the coaching staff…Mannion and Broncos DL John Franklin-Myers were teammates with the L.A. Rams in 2018…Packers executive vice president/ director of football operations Russ Ball was the New Orleans Saints’ vice president of football administration from 2006-07, where he crossed paths with Broncos head coach Sean Payton, Lombardi, offensive run game coordinator/assistant head coach Zach Strief, senior offensive assistant Pete Carmichael, Vitt and head strength and conditioning coach Dan Dalrymple…Ball and Carmichael also crossed paths in Washington in 2001…Packers OL coach Luke Butkus was on the Jacksonville Jaguars’ coaching staff from 2013-15 when Lewis played there…Notable college connections: LaFleur and Packers WRs coach Ryan Mahaffey were on Notre Dame’s offensive coaching staff in 2014 when McGlinchey played there…Packers LB Isaiah McDuffie and Broncos DE Zach Allen were teammates at Boston College…Broncos QB Bo Nix and Packers DL Colby Wooden were teammates at Auburn from 2019- 21…Broncos ILBs coach Jeff Schmedding was Wooden’s defensive coordinator at Auburn in 2022…Packers QB Malik Willis and Broncos QB Jarrett Stidham shared a QB room at Auburn from 2017-18…Nix and Broncos WR Troy Franklin were teammates with Packers S Evan Williams at Oregon in 2023…Broncos CB Pat Surtain II and OLB Que Robinson were teammates with Jacobs at Alabama in 2020…McKinney and Surtain also played together at Alabama for two seasons (2018-19)…Packers DL Lukas Van Ness and Welch were teammates with Broncos CB Riley Moss at Iowa…Shewmaker and Ansley coached together at Kentucky in 2015…Packers OL Zach Tom and Broncos ILB Justin Strnad played together at Wake Forest for three seasons (2017-19)…Downard was on Texas Tech’s coaching staff in 2013 when Webb played there… Hafley and Packers LBs coach Sean Duggan were on Ohio State’s defensive coaching staff in 2019 when Broncos OLB Jonathon Cooper played there…Other notable connections: Lombardi is the grandson of former Packers head coach Vince Lombardi…Packers TE Luke Musgrave’s uncle, Bill Musgrave, played quarterback for the Broncos in 1995-96.
