Packers players and staff from Pennsylvania: DL Micah Parsons is from Harrisburg, where he attended Harrisburg High School…K Brandon McManus attended North Penn (Lansdale) High School…TE Luke Musgrave was born in Pittsburgh…Passing game coordinator Jason Vrable is from South Park, Pa., and attended Robert Morris University…Senior assistant Luke Getsy is from Munhall, Pa., where he attended Steel Valley High School…Director of player personnel John Wojciechowski is from Plum, Pa., where he attended Plum High School… Packers players and staff who played college football in Pennsylvania: Parsons (2018-20) and T Rasheed Walker (2018-21) played at Penn State…McManus played at Temple from 2009-12…Getsy played at the University of Pittsburgh from 2003-04…Packers coaches who have coached in Pennsylvania: Defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley was on the coaching staff at the University of Pittsburgh for five seasons, serving as a defensive assistant/cornerbacks coach (2006-07) and a secondary coach (2008-10)…Vrable was the QBs coach at Robert Morris University in 2008…Getsy was an offensive graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010…Getsy was the offensive coordinator/QBs coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania from 2011-12…Packers staff with connections to Pennsylvania: College scout Joe Hueber served as a recruiting assistant at the University of Pittsburgh from 2012-14…Steelers with connections to Wisconsin: LB T.J. Watt was born in Pewaukee, Wis., where he attended Pewaukee High School…Watt played at Wisconsin from 2013-16…WRs coach Zach Azzanni served in the same role at Wisconsin in 2012…RBs coach Eddie Faulkner played at Wisconsin from 1996-2000 and later returned to serve as the TEs coach in 2012… DL Keeanu Benton attended Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville, Wis., and played at Wisconsin from 2019-22…LB Nick Herbig played at Wisconsin from 2020-22… Former Steelers: Wojciechowski served as a player personnel assistant for the Steelers from 1996-97…Former Packers: QB Aaron Rodgers was a first-round pick by the Packers (No. 24 overall) in the 2005 NFL Draft. Rodgers played in 230 regular-season games (third most in team history) with 223 starts and started 21 of 22 postseason contests he played in for Green Bay (2005-22). His 18 seasons playing for the Packers are the most in franchise history. With Rodgers as the starting quarterback over 15 seasons, Green Bay made the playoffs 11 times, won the division eight times and won a Super Bowl title. He registered a team-record 475 career passing TDs, the third most in NFL history by a QB with a single franchise (Tom Brady, 541 with New England; Drew Brees, 491 with New Orleans) and the fifth-most overall in league history…QBs coach Tom Arth spent training camp with the Packers in 2006 during his playing career…ILBs coach Scott McCurley spent 13 years in the Packers organization, serving as a coaching administrative intern (2006), a coaching administrator (2007-08), a defensive quality control coach (2009-13), an assistant LBs coach (2014-17) and a defensive assistant (2018)…Notable NFL connections: Steelers special teams coordinator Danny Smith crossed paths with Packers head coach Matt LaFleur for three seasons (2010-12) with the Washington Redskins when LaFleur was the QBs coach…Steelers director of player development Darrel Young played for the Redskins from 2010-13, where he also crossed paths with LaFleur… LaFleur was the Tennessee Titans’ offensive coordinator in 2018 when Steelers offensive coordinator Arthur Smith was the TEs coach and TE Jonnu Smith played for the Titans…LaFleur was an offensive assistant with the Houston Texans when Steelers college scout Mark Bruener played there in 2008…Bruener and Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich were teammates with the Texans in 2008…Steelers head coach Mike Tomlin and Packers assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia were both on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ coaching staff from 2002-05…McCurley was the Dallas Cowboys’ LBs coach when Parsons played for the Cowboys from 2021-24…Arthur Smith was the Atlanta Falcons’ head coach when Packers TE John FitzPatrick played for the Falcons from 2022-23…Steelers DBs coach Gerald Alexander was on the Las Vegas Raiders’ coaching staff in 2024 when Packers CB Nate Hobbs played for the Raiders…Steelers CB Jalen Ramsey and Packers LS Matt Orzech were teammates with the Jacksonville Jaguars (2019) and the Los Angeles Rams (2021-22)…Packers S Xavier McKinney and Steelers S Jabril Peppers were teammates with the N.Y. Giants from 2020-21…Steelers assistant general manager Andy Weidl worked in scouting for the New Orleans Saints when Packers executive vice president/director of football operations Russ Ball was a senior football administrator from 2002-04…Steelers WR DK Metcalf was teammates with Packers CB Bo Melton (2022) and QBs coach Sean Mannion (2023) during his time with the Seattle Seahawks…Notable college connections: Rodgers was teammates with Packers assistant special teams coach Byron Storer at California in 2004… Parsons and Walker were teammates with Steelers TE Pat Freiermuth and CB Joey Porter Jr. at Penn State from 2019-20…Packers QB Jordan Love and Steelers RB Jaylen Warren played together at Utah State in 2019…Arthur Smith was teammates with Packers TEs coach John Dunn at North Carolina for three seasons (2001-03)…Peppers and Packers DL Rashan Gary played together at Michigan in 2016…Stenavich played at Michigan when Steelers defensive coordinator Teryl Austin was on the coaching staff in 2002…Packers TE Tucker Kraft and Steelers G Mason McCormick were teammates at South Dakota State for four seasons (2019-22)…Packers DL Lukas Van Ness was teammates with Steelers DT Logan Lee, RB Kaleb Johnson and DE Yahya Black at Iowa…Lee and Black also played with Packers LB Nick Niemann at Iowa… Steelers OT Broderick Jones and TE Darnell Washington were teammates with Packers LB Quay Walker, DL Devonte Wyatt, S Javon Bullard, DL Nazir Stackhouse, DL Warren Brinson and FitzPatrick at Georgia…Packers G Aaron Banks and Steelers WR Ben Skowronek were teammates at Notre Dame in 2020…Packers LB Edgerrin Cooper, Steelers C Ryan McCollum and DE DeMarvin Leal played together at Texas A&M in 2020…Packers OL Zach Tom and Steelers WR Ke’Shawn Williams were teammates at Wake Forest from 2020-21…Steelers head strength and conditioning coach Phil Matusz served in the same role at Boston College from 2020-23 when Hafley was the head coach and Packers LBs coach Sean Duggan was on the coaching staff.
