Packers players and staff from Colorado: Offensive quality control coach T.C. McCartney is from Boulder, Colo., where he attended Fairview High School…Pass game specialist/game management coach Connor Lewis was born in Littleton, Colo., and attended Chatfield Senior High School…Packers players and staff who played college football in Colorado: S Mark Perry (2019-21) and WR Will Sheppard (2024) played at the University of Colorado… Senior 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 coaches who have coached in Colorado: McCartney was a graduate assistant/offensive assistant at the University of Colorado from 2012-13…LBs coach Sam Siefkes was a strength and conditioning intern at the Air Force Academy in the summer of 2013…Packers staff with connections to Colorado: Director of performance psychology and team behavioral health clinician Dr. Chris 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…CB Ricardo Hallman (2021-25), ILB Jordan Turner (2020-23), DE Matt Henningsen (2017-21) and C Michael Deiter (2014-18) played at Wisconsin…Henningsen was born in Menomonee Falls, Wis., where he attended Menomonee Falls High School…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…V.P. of football operations Kelly Kleine Van Calligan is from Sheboygan, Wis., where she attended Sheboygan North High School…Former Broncos: LB Kristian Welch played for the Broncos for a portion of the 2024 season…TE Thomas Yassmin spent time on the Broncos’ practice squad in 2024…Assistant WRs 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… McCartney served as the QBs coach for the Broncos in 2019…Chief communications officer Jason Wahlers began his NFL career as a PR intern with the Broncos from 2001-02…Former Packers: Senior defensive assistant Joe Vitt coached defensive backs for Green Bay in 1999… Offensive pass game coordinator John Morton spent time on the Packers’ practice squad in 1993…C Lecitus Smith was on Green Bay’s practice squad in 2024-25 and played in one game for Green Bay last season…Notable NFL connections: Broncos assistant to head coach Paul Kelly was on the Washington Redskins’ staff with Packers head coach Matt LaFleur from 2010-13…LaFleur and Broncos OL coach Chris Morgan were on the Redskins’ coaching staff together from 2011-13 and on the Atlanta Falcons’ coaching staff from 2015-16…Defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon was the assistant DBs/quality control coach for the Vikings when special teams quality control coach Zach Line played fullback from 2014-16…Gannon was the defensive assistant/quality control coach when assistant strength and conditioning coach Zaviar Gooden played linebacker for the Tennessee Titans in 2013… Broncos T Mike McGlinchey and DT D.J. Jones played for the 49ers when Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich, DL coach Vince Oghobaase, CBs coach Daniel Bullocks and strength and conditioning coordinator Aaron Hill were on the coaching staff and G Aaron Banks played there…Packers QBs/head coach – offense Luke Getsy was the Chicago Bears’ offensive coordinator for two seasons, where he worked with Broncos TEs coach Austin King, the assistant offensive line coach, in 2022…Broncos offensive coordinator Davis Webb played for the N.Y. Jets in 2018 and the Bills in 2019-21 when Packers passing game coordinator Jason Vrable and secondary/pass game coordinator Bobby Babich was on the staff…Packers executive V.P. and director of football operations Russ Ball was the New Orleans Saints’ V.P. of football administration from 2006- 07, where he crossed paths with Broncos head coach Sean Payton, offensive run game coordinator/assistant head coach Zach Strief, Morton, Vitt and head strength and conditioning coach Dan Dalrymple…McCartney was the QBs coach for the New England Patriots when Broncos director of game management/assistant QBs coach Evan Rothstein was on the coaching staff in 2024…Broncos WR coach Ronald Curry was an offensive assistant for the 49ers when McCartney was an offensive assistant/ quality control coach in 2015…Packers RB Josh Jacobs played for the Oakland/Las Vegas Raiders from 2019- 23 when Morton and King were on the coaching staff in 2021…Jacobs and Broncos QB Jarrett Stidham were teammates with the Raiders in 2022…Banks and Broncos S Talanoa Hufanga were teammates in San Francisco for four seasons (2021-24)…Packers S Xavier McKinney was teammates with Broncos TE Evan Engram on the N.Y. Giants from 2020-21…Packers QB Tyrod Taylor was teammates with Webb with the Giants in 2022…Packers TE Josh Whyle and G Calvin Throckmorton were teammates with the Titans in 2023…Notable college connections: Packers strength and conditioning assistant Jake Flint was the director of athletic development for LSU when Gooden was the assistant development coach from 2022- 25…Dunn and Curry played together at North Carolina in 2001…LB Edgerrin Cooper and ILB Taurean York played together at Texas A&M in 2023…Broncos CB Pat Surtain II and OLB Que Robinson were teammates with Jacobs at Alabama in 2020…McKinney and Surtain II played together at Alabama for two seasons (2018-19)…McKinney and Jacobs also played with Broncos WR Jaylen Waddle at Alabama…Packers LB Isaiah McDuffie and Broncos DL Zach Allen were teammates at Boston College…Broncos CB Riley Moss was teammates with Welch, LB Nick Niemann and EDGE Lukas Van Ness…Packers OL Zach Bako-Bewele and Broncos ILB Justin Strnad played together at Wake Forest for three seasons (2017-19)…QB Bo Nix and WR Troy Franklin were teammates with Packers S Evan Williams at Oregon in 2023…Other notable connections: Packers TE Luke Musgrave’s uncle, Bill Musgrave, played quarterback for the Broncos in 1995-96…Packers WR J. Michael Sturdivant is the nephew of the late Hall of Fame halfback Floyd Little, who played for the Broncos for nine seasons (1967-75)…McCartney’s father, Sal Aunese, played QB at Colorado, and McCartney’s grandfather, Bill McCartney, is the winningest football coach in the University of Colorado history.
