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Dope Sheet: Packers travel west to take on the Seahawks
Seahawks’ president of football operations/general manager John Schneider spent 13 seasons with the Packers as a personnel intern (1992), scout (1993-96), personnel analyst to the general manager (2002-07) and director of football operations (2008-09)…Schnieder also worked under the late Ted Thompson in Seattle in 2000 and is a native of De Pere, Wis., where he attended Abbot Pennings High School…Packers executive vice president/director of football operations Russ Ball and Schneider worked together with the Washington Redskins in 2001…Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst and Schneider worked together with the Kansas City Chiefs (1998)…Packers T Andre Dillard attended Woodinville (Wash.) High School and played at Washington State (2015-18)…Packers OL coach Luke Butkus was a quality control assistant for Seattle in 2010-11…Packers director of college scouting Matt Malaspina was an area scout for Seattle for five seasons (2000-04)…Packers offensive assistant Sean Mannion spent time on the Seahawks’ practice squad in 2022-23…Seahawks vice president/football administration Joey Laine was a salary cap analyst for the Packers in 2023…Seahawks vice president/player performance Sam Ramsden was on the Packers’ athletic training staff for seven seasons (1992-98) and attended the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse…Seahawks ILBs coach Kirk Olivadotti served as the Packers’ ILBs coach for five seasons (2019-23)…Olivadotti also coached with Packers head coach Matt LaFleur with the Washington Redskins in 2010…Seahawks offensive assistant/quality control Quinshon Odom served as a coaching assistant (Bill Walsh Diversity Coaching Fellowship) for the Packers in 2022-23…Seahawks NT Jarran Reed played in all 17 games for the Packers in 2022…LaFleur and Seahawks defensive coordinator Aden Durde coached together with the Falcons in 2016…Seahawks RBs coach Kennedy Polamalu was the running backs coach for Las Vegas in 2022-23 when Packers RB Josh Jacobs played for the Raiders…Polamalu was on UCLA’s coaching staff in 2014-15 when Packers DL Kenny Clark played for the Bruins…Polamalu (2017-21) and Seahawks safeties coach Jeff Howard (2013-19) were on the Vikings’ coaching staff when Packers LB Eric Wilson (2017-19) and Mannion (2019-21) played for Minnesota…Seahawks offensive assistant Chuckie Keeton was a quality control coach and assisted with quarterbacks at Utah State in 2018 when Packers QB Jordan Love was the starting QB for the Aggies…Seahawks offensive coordinator Ryan Grubb (2017-21) and Seahawks assistant WRs coach Tyson Prince (2019) were on Fresno State’s staff when Packers S Evan Williams (2019-21) and DL Arron Mosby (2017-21) played for the Bulldogs…Seahawks special teams coordinator Jay Harbaugh and OLBs coach Chris Partridge were on Michigan’s coaching staff with Packers LBs/running game coordinator Anthony Campanile in 2019 and while Packers DL Rashan Gary was a player for the Wolverines (2016-18)…Partridge also served as the head football coach at Paramus (N.J.) Catholic High School during Gary’s junior season in 2014…Packers TEs coach John Dunn and Seahawks TEs coach Mack Brown were on the N.Y. Jets’ coaching staff together in 2019-20…Campanile and Seahawks assistant special teams coach Devin Fitzsimmons were on Rutgers’ coaching staff together in 2012…Fitzsimmons was also on the Cardinals’ staff with Packers offensive quality control coach Rob Grosso in 2021-22…Packers TE Ben Sims played for Baylor in 2018-19 when Seahawks WRs coach Frisman Jackson served as the WRs coach (2018) and offensive passing game coordinator (2019) for the Bears…Seahawks QBs coach Charles London and Butkus were on the Bears’ coaching staff together in 2007-09…London was also the RBs coach on Duke’s staff in 2006 when Packers assistant DL coach Vince Oghobaase was a player for the Blue Devils…Oghbaase was a graduate assistant at Duke when Seahawks G Laken Tomlinson was a player in 2011-12…Packers passing game coordinator (defense) Derrick Ansley and Seahawks assistant OL coach Brendan Nugent were on the Chargers’ staff together in 2022-23…Ansley was a defensive graduate assistant for Alabama in 2010-11 when Seahawks defensive quality control coach Nick Perry played for the Crimson Tide…Perry (2017-20), Seahawks defensive passing game coordinator/DBs Karl Scott (2018-20) and offensive passing game coordinator Jake Peetz (2018) were on Alabama’s coaching staff when Packers S Xavier McKinney (2017-19) and Jacobs (2016-18) played for the Crimson Tide…McKinney, Seahawks FS Julian Love and DE Leonard Williams were teammates with the Giants in 2020-22…Packers CB Keisean Nixon, Jacobs and special teams quality control coach Kyle Wilber were teammates with Seahawks DT Johnathan Hankins with the Raiders in 2018-22 while Packers assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia, special teams assistant Byron Storer and Ansley were on the coaching staff during that time…Packers CB Robert Rochell and Seahawks LB Ernest Jones IV were both selected by the Rams in the 2021 NFL Draft and played together for two seasons (2021-22)…Former college teammates include: Gary and Seahawks LB Josh Ross (Michigan); Packers WR Jayden Reed, Seahawks RB Kenneth Walker III and WR Cody White (Michigan State); Packers OL Zach Tom and Walker III (Wake Forest); Packers DL Colby Wooden, Seahawks LB Derick Hall and CB Nehemiah Pritchett (Auburn); Jacobs, McKinney and Seahawks CB Josh Jobe (Alabama); Packers C/G Josh Myers, Seahawks WR Jaxon Smith-Njigba and LB Dre’Mont Jones (Ohio State); Packers DL Kingsley Enagbare, Nixon and Jones IV (South Carolina); Packers LB Quay Walker, DL Devonte Wyatt, CB Eric Stokes, S Javon Bullard, TE John FitzPatrick and Seahawks RB Kenny McIntosh (Georgia); Packers WR Dontayvion Wicks and Seahawks C Olu Oluwatimi (Virginia); Packers T Rasheed Walker and Seahawks LS Chris Stoll (Penn State).