{"id":747865,"date":"2026-02-12T22:05:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747865\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T22:05:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T22:05:22","slug":"packers-to-hire-former-sec-general-manager","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/747865\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers to hire former SEC general manager"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mzenitz\/status\/2021611612533113238\" rel=\"nofollow\">Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports is reporting<\/a> that the Green Bay Packers \u201care expected to hire\u201d Will Redmond, who last served as the general manager of the Auburn Tigers. Yes, college teams have general managers. Welcome to the NIL and portal era.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">No, this is not the same Will Redmond who played for the Packers from 2018 to 2021. By then, this Redmond had already been working in personnel. His resume includes stops at Middle Tennessee State, Western Michigan, Kansas, LSU and Auburn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">At LSU, he served as the director of player personnel, essentially the number two gig behind the team\u2019s general manager, Austin Thomas, who is now at Mississippi. So, for the last five seasons, he\u2019s been spending time evaluating college players, some of whom are in this upcoming class, in the southeast and beyond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.footballscoop.com\/2026\/02\/11\/sources-will-redmond-joining-green-bay-packers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">According to FootballScoop<\/a>, Redmond had interest from several SEC programs, but elected to go the pro route. FootballScoop also claims that Redmond\u2019s work with the Packers had already begun during Senior Bowl week. We don\u2019t know Redmond\u2019s official title at this point, but it will probably be something involving college scouting. Worth noting, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.on3.com\/teams\/texas-longhorns\/news\/once-again-the-sec-and-big-10-lead-the-way-in-nfl-combine-invites\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">105 of the 329 invites for the NFL combine this year come from the SEC<\/a>, which has been Redmond\u2019s focus for the last five years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">All four of these players were invited to the combine. Lew is generally viewed as the top center prospect in the class, but is coming off a torn ACL.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matt Zenitz of CBS Sports is reporting that the Green Bay Packers \u201care expected to hire\u201d Will Redmond,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2702,2514,2513,6,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-747865","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-green-bay-packers-news","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-nfl","15":"tag-packers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116059933737282748","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747865","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=747865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}