Packers players and staff from Michigan: Packers head coach Matt LaFleur is from Mount Pleasant, Mich., and went to Mount Pleasant High School…DL Karl Brooks is from Lansing, Mich., and attended Lansing Sexton High School…CB Kamal Hadden was born in Ypsilanti, Mich., and attended River Rouge (Mich.) High School… Packers players and staff who played college football in Michigan: LaFleur played wide receiver at Western Michigan (1998-99) and quarterback at Saginaw Valley State (2000-02)…Packers DL Rashan Gary (2016-18) played at Michigan…Packers WR Jayden Reed began his collegiate career at Western Michigan (2018) and finished it at Michigan State (2020-22)…Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich played at Michigan (2002-05)…Packers DBs coach Ryan Downard played at Eastern Michigan (2007-10)…Packers coaches who have coached in Michigan: LaFleur was an offensive assistant at Saginaw Valley State (2003), a graduate assistant at Central Michigan (2004-05) and a QBs/WRs coach at Northern Michigan (2006)…Stenavich was a strength and conditioning intern (2011) and a graduate assistant (2012- 13) for the Wolverines…Packers RBs coach Ben Sirmans coached at Michigan State for two seasons (2005-06)… Senior assistant Luke Getsy was WRs coach at Western Michigan in 2013…Packers staff with connections to Michigan: Packers chief of staff Darryl Franklin spent three years as a graduate assistant at Central Michigan… Former Lions: Franklin was a player personnel intern with the Lions in 2008…Former Packers: Lions QBs coach Mark Brunell was selected by the Packers in the fifth round (No. 118 overall) of the 1993 NFL Draft and spent the first two seasons of his career (1993-94) in Green Bay…Lions senior personnel executive John Dorsey spent 21 years as an executive with the Packers (1991-98, 2000-12) and 77 also played in 76 games for the Packers from 1984-88… Lions head equipment manager Tim O’Neil spent six seasons as an equipment assistant in Green Bay (1995-2000) and is the uncle of Packers LBs coach Sean Duggan… Lions assistant strength and conditioning coach Thadeus Jackson spent 14 seasons with the Packers as a strength and conditioning asssitant coach (2010-23)…Notable NFL connections: LaFleur was the offensive coordinator for the Rams in 2017 when Lions QB Jared Goff was on the roster and when Lions executive V.P. and general manager Brad Holmes served as the Rams’ director of college scouting…Goff also crossed paths with Packers QBs coach Sean Mannion, special teams quality control coach Cory Harkey and offensive assistant Jeremiah Kolone in his time with the Rams…LaFleur was offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans in 2018 when Lions WR Kalif Raymond played there…LaFleur was QBs coach for the Washington Redskins when Lions RBs coach Tashard Choice played there in 2011…Lions defensive assistant Jim O’Neil served as the Raiders’ DBs coach in 2019-20 when Packers CB Keisean Nixon played for the team… Nixon, Packers CB Nate Hobbs, RB Josh Jacobs, assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia and assistant special teams coach Byron Storer were with the Raiders in 2021 when Lions offensive coordinator John Morton and CB Amik Robertson were with the team… Storer, Bisaccia, passing game coordinator Derrick Ansley, Nixon and Jacobs also crossed paths with Jim O’Neil when he was with the Raiders from 2018-20…Storer played for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Bisaccia was on Tampa Bay’s coaching staff when Lions offensive assistant Bruce Gradkowski played there in 2007…Getsy was offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears when Lions RB David Montgomery and EDGE Al-Quadin Muhammad played for the Bears in 2022…Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and Downard were on the Cleveland Browns’ defensive coaching staff when Jim O’Neil was defensive coordinator there from 2014-15…Bisaccia was assistant head coach/special teams coordinator for the Dallas Cowboys when Choice was a coaching intern with the Cowboys in 2016…Choice played for the Buffalo Bills when Packers passing game coordinator Jason Vrable was an offensive quality control coach there in 2013… Vrable was an offensive assistant for the New York Jets in 2017 when Morton, Lions defensive line coach/run game coordinator Kacy Rodgers and Raymond were with the Jets in 2017…Packers K Brandon McManus crossed paths with Lions assistant special teams coach Jett Modkins, OL Graham Glasgow and Raymond when McManus played for the Denver Broncos from 2014-22…Hafley coached DBs for the San Francisco 49ers when Lions CB D.J. Reed played there in 2018…Hafley and Packers assistant defensive line coach Vince Oghobaase worked with Jim O’Neil when he was the 49ers’ defensive coordinator in 2016… Notable college connections: Packers DL Lukas Van Ness, Lions LB Jack Campbell and TE Sam LaPorta were teammates at Iowa…Jacobs was teammates with Lions DB Brian Branch and WR Jameson Williams at Alabama… Gary and Lions EDGE Aidan Hutchinson were teammates at Michigan in 2018…Lions OL Graham Glasgow crossed paths with Stenavich at Michigan from 2011-13…Lions OL Tate Ratledge was teammates with Packers’ DL Devonte Wyatt, TE John FitzPatrick, LB Quay Walker, S Javon Bullard, DL Nazir Stackhouse, DL Warren Brinson and assistant OL coach Eddie Gordon at Georgia…Brinson, Stackhouse and Bullard were also teammates with Lions WR Dominic Lovett at Georgia.
