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Packers players and staff from Florida: G\/T Anthony Belton was born in Tallahassee, Fla., and attended Florida State University High School\u2026DT Warren Brinson attended IMG Academy in Bradenton, Fla., for two years\u2026DT Anthony Campbell is from Bartow, Fla., and attended Bartow High School\u2026DT Jonathan Ford was born in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., where he attended Dillard High School\u2026G\/T Donovan Jennings was born in Tampa, Fla., and attended Gaither High School\u2026TE Jonnu Smith attended West Port High School in Ocala, Fla. \u2026WR Christian Watson is from Tampa, Fla., where he attended H.B. Plant High School\u2026Packers players and staff who played college football in Florida: EDGE Brenton Cox Jr. (2019-22), LB Ty’Ron Hopper (2019- 21), DT Chris McClellan (2022-23), K Trey Smack (2022- 25) and WR J. Michael Sturdivant (2025) played at the University of Florida\u2026Campbell played at Miami (Fla.) from 2023-24\u2026Jennings played at South Florida from 2018-23\u2026 Packers coaches who have coached in Florida: Passing game coordinator Jason Vrable was a strength intern at South Florida in the summer of 2007\u2026LBs coach Sam Siefkes served as a defensive\/special teams quality control coach 5 at Florida International University in 2014\u2026Secondary\/pass game coordinator Bobby Babich was the secondary coach\/ defensive pass game coordinator at Florida International in 2016\u2026Offensive assistant\/minority fellowship Jeremiah Kolone was an offensive analyst at Central Florida in 2025\u2026 Buccaneers with connections to Wisconsin: G Ben Bredeson was born in Hartland, Wis., and attended Arrowhead High School\u2026T Luke Goedeke was born in Whitelaw, Wis., where he attended Valders High School and played at UW-Stevens Point (2017)\u2026G Billy Schrauth is from Fond du Lac, Wis., and attended St. Mary’s Springs Academy\u2026Former Buccaneers: Chief communications officer Jason Wahlers worked in various roles in the Buccaneers’ public relations department for nine years (2002-10)\u2026Former Packers: Head coach Todd Bowles spent two seasons (1995-96) with Green Bay as a college scouting assistant\u2026Senior offensive assistant\/pass game specialist Ken Zampese was an offensive assistant for the Packers in 1999\u2026Notable NFL connections: Packers head coach Matt LaFleur and Buccaneers special teams coordinator Danny Smith were on the Redskins’ coaching staff together from 2010-12\u2026Packers assistant DL coach Vince Oghobaase spent time on the Redskins’ practice squad when Smith coached there in 2010\u2026Buccaneers RBs coach Skip Peete was the RBs coach for the Los Angeles Rams when LaFleur was the offensive coordinator in 2017\u2026 Packers assistant special teams coach Cory Harkey (2016) and Kolone (2018-19) crossed paths with Peete with the Rams\u2026Kolone and Packers LS Matt Orzech also crossed paths with Buccaneers P Riley Dixon, DL A’Shawn Robinson, LB Christian Rozeboom and QB Baker Mayfield with the Rams in 2022\u2026Buccaneers run game coordinator\/OL coach Kevin Carberry and offensive coordinator Zac Robinson were on the Rams’ coaching staff when Orzech and Kolone played there from 2021-22\u2026Packers defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon was the DBs\/CBs coach (2018-20) with the Indianapolis Colts when Buccaneers OLB Al-Quadin Muhammad (2018-20) and K Chase McLaughlin (2019) played there\u2026Packers LB Zaire Franklin was teammates with Muhammad and McLaughlin with the Colts in 2019\u2026 Gannon was the assistant DBs\/quality control coach when Buccaneers pass game coordinator George Edwards was the defensive coordinator for the Minnesota Vikings for four seasons (2014-17)\u2026Gannon was the defensive coordinator for the Philadelphia Eagles when Buccaneers RB Kenny Gainwell played there from 2021-22\u2026Gainwell was also teammates with Packers DT Javon Hargrave with the Eagles from 2021- 22\u2026Buccaneers safeties coach Tim Atkins, ILBs coach Mike Caldwell and Bowles (head coach) were on the New York Jets’ coaching staff when Vrable coached there from 2017- 18\u2026Packers QBs\/assistant head coach – offense Luke Getsy and Caldwell were on the Las Vegas Raiders coaching staff together in 2024\u2026Packers CBs coach Daniel Bullocks and Buccaneers run game coordinator\/OLBs coach Larry Foote played together with the Detroit Lions in 2009\u2026Babich was on the Buffalo Bills’ coaching staff when Buccaneers DL coach Marcus West coached there from 2022-25\u2026West also crossed paths with Harkey with the Bills from 2022-24\u2026 Atkins was the Cleveland Browns’ defensive assistant when Babich coached there from 2014-15\u2026Getsy was the offensive coordinator for the Chicago Bears when Buccaneers G Dan Feeney played there in 2023\u2026Zampese was the QBs coach for the Browns when Packers QB Tyrod Taylor played there in 2018\u2026Packers offensive quality control coach T.C. McCartney was the Browns’ offensive assistant when Mayfield played there from 2020-21\u2026Taylor and Feeney were teammates with the Los Angeles Chargers from 2019- 20\u2026Hargrave and Buccaneers T Justin Skule played together with the Vikings in 2025\u2026Packers S Xavier McKinney and Dixon were teammates with the New York Giants from 2020- 21\u2026Taylor, Bredeson and Robinson played together with the Giants in 2023\u2026Smith was the special teams coordinator for the Pittsburgh Steelers when Hargrave played there from 2016-19\u2026Packers G Aaron Banks, G Laken Tomlinson and Skule played together with the San Francisco 49ers in 2021… Notable college connections: Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich and Buccaneers assistant TEs coach Jeff Kastl played together at Michigan for four seasons (2002-05) and were on the same coaching staff with the Wolverines in 2013\u2026Buccaneers head strength and conditioning coach Chad Wade was the assistant strength and conditioning coach at Nebraska when strength and conditioning assistant Ben Schumacher was a strength intern in 2009 and Bullocks played there from 2001-05\u2026Packers defensive analyst Scott Fuchs was the OL coach at Kansas when Buccaneers QB Jalon Daniels played there from 2021-23\u2026Packers assistant special teams coach Jeff Koonz was the ILBs\/special teams coordinator at West Virginia when Buccaneers S Tykee Smith played there in 2020\u2026Koonz was also the ILBs coach\/ defensive coordinator in 2024 when Buccaneers CB Ayden Garnes and LB Josiah Trotter played at West Virginia\u2026Ford and Buccaneers DL Elijah Roberts were teammates at Miami from 2020-21\u2026Campbell and Buccaneers OLB Rueben Bain Jr. played together at Miami from 2023-24\u2026Packers C\/G Jacob Monk, Buccaneers C Graham Barton and LS Evan Deckers played together at Duke in 2022\u2026Packers G\/T Travis Glover was teammates with Buccaneers T Benjamin Chukwuma at Georgia State from 2020-23\u2026Franklin and Dixon were teammates at Syracuse from 2014-15\u2026Packers CB Benjamin St-Juste and Buccaneers S Antoine Winfield Jr. played together at Minnesota in 2019\u2026Packers WRs coach Noah Pauley coached WRs at North Dakota State when Buccaneers G Cody Mauch played there from 2019-22\u2026 Watson and Mauch were teammates at NDSU for five seasons (2017-21)\u2026Packers TE Mark Redman was teammates with Buccaneers TE Cade Otton and WR Jalen McMillan at Washington from 2020-21\u2026Packers LB Nick Niemann and Buccaneers OLB Anthony Nelson played together at Iowa from 2016-18\u2026Packers DT Devonte Wyatt, S Javon Bullard and Brinson were teammates with Smith at Georgia in 2021\u2026 Brinson and Bullard played at Georgia when Buccaneers WRs coach Bryan McClendon coached there from 2022-23\u2026 McClellan and Trotter played together at Missouri in 2025\u2026 Buccaneers CBs coach Rashad Johnson was the director of player development when McKinney played at Alabama from 2018-19\u2026McClendon was on South Carolina’s coaching staff when Packers CB Keisean Nixon played there from 2017-18\u2026 Zampese was the defensive analyst at Florida when Cox Jr. and Hopper played there in 2019…Other notable connections: Peete’s father, Willie Peete, was hired by Green Bay to serve as the RBs\/special teams coach in 1987, before serving as an offensive backs coach from 1988-91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers players and staff from Florida: G\/T Anthony Belton was born in Tallahassee, Fla., and attended Florida 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