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Brinson was born in Savannah, Ga\u2026S Javon Bullard is from Milledgeville, Ga., and attended Baldwin High School\u2026EDGE Brenton Cox Jr. was born in Stockbridge, Ga., where he attended Stockbridge High School\u2026G\/T Travis Glover was born in Vienna, Ga. and attended Dooly County (Ga.) High School\u2026LB Ty’Ron Hopper is from Roswell, Ga., and attended Roswell High School\u2026S Xavier McKinney was born in Roswell, Ga., where he attended Roswell High School\u2026DT Devonte Wyatt is from Decatur, Ga., and attended Tower High School\u2026Packers players and staff who played college football in Georgia: Cox Jr. (2018), Wyatt (2018-21), Brinson (2020-24) and Bullard (2021-23) played at the University of Georgia\u2026Glover played at Georgia State University from 2018-23\u2026G\/T Anthony Belton played at Georgia Military College from 2019-20…Packers coaches who have coached in Georgia: Assistant OL coach Eddie Gordon served as an OL graduate assistant from 2019-21 and spent the 2022 season as the offensive quality control coach at the University of Georgia\u2026Falcons with connections to Wisconsin: QB Jack Strand was born in Bloomer, Wis., and attended Bloomer High School\u2026OL coach Bill Callahan served as the OL coach at Wisconsin from 1990-94\u2026Senior defensive assistant Dave Huxtable was the LBs coach for Wisconsin in 2011\u2026Assistant QBs coach Jordan Reid served as the WRs coach at Wisconsin for one season (2025)\u2026Former Falcons: Head coach Matt LaFleur coached QBs for the Falcons from 2015-16\u2026Defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon served as the defensive assistant\/quality control coach for the Falcons in 2007\u2026TE Jonnu Smith played for the Falcons in 2023\u2026Former Packers: DE Za’Darius Smith played for the Packers for three seasons (2019-21)\u2026WR Chris Blair spent time on Green Bay’s practice squad in 2021\u2026Secondary coach Justin Hood was the defensive quality control coach for the Packers from 2021-23\u2026QBs coach Alex Van Pelt served in multiple roles over six seasons (2012-17) in Green Bay, working as the QBs coach in his final four seasons (2014-17)\u2026TEs coach Kevin Koger was the offensive quality control coach for the Packers from 2019-20\u2026Notable NFL connections: Gannon and Falcons head coach Kevin Stefanski were on the same coaching staff with the Minnesota Vikings from 2014-17\u2026Gannon was the Arizona Cardinals’ head coach when Falcons defensive passing game coordinator Patrick Toney coached DBs for the Cardinals from 2023-25\u2026Toney also overlapped with Packers LBs coach Sam Siefkes with the Cardinals\u2026Falcons DE Cameron Thomas and LB Josh Woods played for the Cardinals when Gannon and Siefkes were on the coaching staff in 2023\u2026LaFleur was the offensive coordinator for the Tennessee Titans in 2018 when Falcons special teams coordinator Craig Aukerman was the assistant special teams coach and Falcons C\/G Corey Levin played there\u2026Smith and Levin were teammates with the Titans from 2017-18\u2026LaFleur crossed paths with Falcons assistant general manager Jeff Scott on the Washington Redskins’ staff from 2012-13\u2026Packers special teams coordinator Cam Achord was the assistant special teams coach (2018-19) and special teams coordinator (2020-23) for the New England Patriots when Falcons P Jake Bailey and K Nick Folk played for the Patriots from 2019-22\u2026Bailey, Folk and Smith were teammates with the Patriots from 2021-22\u2026Packers OL coach Luke Butkus and Falcons defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich spent two seasons on the Seattle Seahawks’ coaching staff together (2010-11)\u2026Packers CBs coach Daniel Bullocks was on the San Francisco 49ers’ coaching staff for nine seasons (2017-25), where he crossed paths with Falcons DE Samson Ebukam, RB Brian Robinson Jr. and TE Charlie Woerner\u2026Ebukam and Packers G Aaron Banks were teammates with the 49ers from 2021-22\u2026Packers WR Skyy Moore was teammates with Robinson with the 49ers in 2025\u2026Hargrave and Woerner played together with the 49ers in 2023\u2026Siefkes was the assistant LBs coach for the Vikings when Za’Darius played there in 2022\u2026Packers offensive quality control coach T.C. McCartney was the QBs coach with the Patriots when Van Pelt was the offensive coordinator for the Patriots and TE Austin Hooper played there in 2024\u2026Van Pelt played quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs when executive V.P. and director of football operations Russ Ball was the assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Chiefs in 1993\u2026Packers defensive analyst Scott Fuchs was the assistant OL coach for the Titans when Callahan and Falcons assistant OL coach Matt Jones were on the coaching staff from 2024-25\u2026Packers TE Josh Whyle, Folk and Levin played for the Titans when Fuchs coached there in 2024\u2026Falcons DL coach Nate Ollie was the Indianapolis Colts’ DL coach when Packers LB Zaire Franklin played there from 2022-23\u2026Franklin and Ebukam were teammates with the Colts for three seasons (2023-25)\u2026Packers EDGE Micah Parsons and Falcons QB Cooper Rush were teammates with the Dallas Cowboys from 2021-24\u2026Falcons WRs coach Robert Prince was the Cowboys’ WRs coach from 2022-24 when Parsons played there\u2026Prince was also the Texans’ WRs coach when Packers QB Tyrod Taylor played there in 2021\u2026Falcons passing game coordinator Tanner Engstrand and Ulbrich were on the New York Jets’ coaching staff when Taylor played for the Jets\u2026Taylor and Folk played together with the Jets in 2025\u2026Koger and Falcons OLBs coach John Timu spent time on the Los Angeles Chargers’ coaching staff, crossing paths with Packers LB Nick Niemann from 2021-23\u2026Ollie was the assistant DL coach for the Philadelphia Eagles when Hargrave played for the Eagles in 2020\u2026Moore and Falcons OT Jawaan Taylor played together with the Chiefs from 2023-24\u2026Packers CB Keisean Nixon and Falcons ILB Divine Deablo were teammates with the Las Vegas Raiders in 2021\u2026Bailey and Falcons QB Tua Tagovailoa played for the Miami Dolphins when Jonnu (2024) and Packers RB Chris Brooks (2023) played there\u2026Robinson and Falcons WR Olamide Zaccheaus were teammates with St-Juste with the Washington Commanders in 2024\u2026St-Juste was also teammates with Falcons WR Jahan Dotson in Washington from 2022-23\u2026Packers LS Matt Orzech, Falcons CB C.J. Henderson and Taylor were teammates with the Jacksonville Jaguars in 2020\u2026Packers DT Jonathan Ford was teammates with Falcons DT Gervon Dexter Sr. with the Chicago Bears from 2024-25\u2026Notable college connections: LaFleur was the offensive coordinator for Ashland University when Hood played there in 2007\u2026Koger and Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich were graduate assistants together at Michigan in 2013\u2026Bullocks and Falcons ILBs coach Barrett Ruud played together at Nebraska for four seasons (2001-04) while Callahan was the head coach for the Huskers in 2004\u2026Henderson and Falcons TE Kyle Pitts Sr. were teammates with Cox Jr. and Hopper at Florida in 2019\u2026Dexter Sr. was also teammates with Cox Jr. and Hopper in 2020 and Packers K Trey Smack and DT Chris McClellan in 2022\u2026Packers RB MarShawn Lloyd and Falcons WR Zachariah Branch played together at USC in 2023\u2026Tagovailoa, Robinson, Falcons LB Christian Harris and S DeMarcco Hellams crossed paths with McKinney at Alabama\u2026Packers EDGE Barryn Sorrell and Falcons RB Bijan Robinson were teammates at Texas from 2021-22\u2026Packers S Evan Williams and Falcons DL Brandon Dorlus were teammates at Oregon in 2023\u2026Lloyd and Falcons TE Nick Muse played together at South Carolina from 2020-21\u2026Other notable connections: T Jake Matthews’ cousin, Clay Matthews, spent the majority of his playing career with the Packers (2009-18)\u2026Blair and Packers P Daniel Whelan were teammates with the DC Defenders (UFL) in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brinson was born in Savannah, Ga\u2026S Javon Bullard is from Milledgeville, Ga., and attended Baldwin High School\u2026EDGE Brenton…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1007260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[131808,7,41,345,2514,2513,34,417,37026,507,6,428],"class_list":["post-1007259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-green-bay-packers","tag-atlanta-falcons-at-green-bay-packers-2026-reg-3","tag-football","tag-green-bay","tag-green-bay-packers","tag-greenbay","tag-greenbaypackers","tag-homepage-cp","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-dope-sheet","tag-news-national-feature","tag-nfl","tag-packers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/117311979100988130","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1007259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1007260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1007259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1007259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}