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Packers players and staff from Pennsylvania: EDGE Micah Parsons is from Harrisburg, Pa., where he attended Harrisburg High School…TE Luke Musgrave was born in Pittsburgh\u2026LB Zaire Franklin was born in Philadelphia and attended La Salle College High School in Wyndmoor, Pa. \u2026QB Kyle McCord is from Philadelphia, where he attended St. Joseph’s Preparatory\u2026WR Skyy Moore was born in New Kensington, Pa., and spent part of his high school career at Shady Side Academy in Pittsburgh\u2026 CB MJ Devonshire Jr. is from Aliquippa, Pa., where he attended Aliquippa High School\u2026QBs\/head coach – offense Luke Getsy is from Munhall, Pa., where he attended Steel Valley High School\u2026Passing game coordinator Jason Vrable is from South Park, Pa., and attended Robert Morris University\u2026Director – football operations John Wojciechowski is from Plum, Pa., where he attended Plum High School…Packers players and staff who played collegiate football in Pennsylvania: Parsons (2018-20) and EDGE Dani Dennis-Sutton (2022-25) played at Penn State\u2026Getsy (2003-04), Devonshire Jr. (2021-23) and LS Cal Adomitis (2017-21) played at the University of Pittsburgh…Packers coaches who have coached in Pennsylvania: Vrable was the QBs coach at Robert Morris University in 2008\u2026Getsy was an offensive graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh in 2010 and an offensive coordinator\/QBs coach at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (2011-12)\u2026Noah Pauley began the year as the WRs coach at Penn State before joining the Packers’ coaching staff in early February…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, and played at Wisconsin from 2013-16\u2026DT Keeanu Benton attended Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville, Wis., and played at Wisconsin from 2019-22\u2026 FB Riley Nowakowski was born in Milwaukee, Wis., where he attended Marquette High School, and played at Wisconsin from 2020-24\u2026 LB Nick Herbig played at Wisconsin from 2020-22… Former Steelers: Wojciechowski served as a player personnel assistant for the Steelers from 1996-97\u2026DT Javon Hargrave played for Pittsburgh from 2016-19\u2026 Adomitis was on the Steelers’ practice squad from 2025- 26…Former Packers: QB Aaron Rodgers played for the Packers for a team-record 18 seasons (2005-22), throwing the most passing TDs in franchise history (475) and being named league MVP four times\u2026Head coach Mike McCarthy spent 13 seasons at the helm, guiding the Packers to six division titles, nine playoff appearances and a Super Bowl XLV victory over the Steelers in 2010, completing his 13-year tenure with a 135-85-2 record\u2026 OL coach James Campen played for the Packers as an offensive lineman from 1989-93\u2026Campen served as the OL coach for 15 years (2004-18)\u2026Campen’s most recent stint for the Packers was from 2024-25 when he served as a scouting consultant to the personnel department\u2026QBs coach Tom Arth spent training camp with the Packers in 2006 during his playing career\u2026ILBs coach Scott McCurley spent 13 years in the Packers organization, serving as a coaching administrative intern (2006), coaching administrator (2007-08), defensive quality control coach (2009- 13), assistant LBs coach (2014-17) and defensive assistant (2018)\u2026Offensive coordinator Brian Angelichio coached TEs for the Packers from 2016-18\u2026Asst. head coach\/secondary Joe Whitt Jr. served as the defensive pass game coordinator in 2018 after serving as the cornerbacks\/ secondary coach (2009-17) and the defensive quality control coach (2008) for the Packers\u2026Senior offensive assistant Frank Cignetti Jr. worked with the Packers in 2018 as the QBs coach\u2026Defensive pass game coordinator\/DBs coach Jason Simmons spent nine seasons on the Packers’ coaching staff serving as the DBs coach (2019), secondary coach (2018), assistant special teams coach (2015-17) and coaching administrator (2011-14)\u2026 Defensive coordinator Patrick Graham served as the linebackers coach and run game coordinator for the Packers in 2018\u2026Head strength and conditioning coach Mark Lovat spent 25 years in the Packers organization, serving as a strength and conditioning assistant (1999- 09), strength and conditioning coordinator (2010-18) and strength and conditioning assistant coach (2019-23)\u2026 Lovat’s father, Tom, served two separate coaching stints in Green Bay (OL coach in 1980 and 1992-98)\u2026Director of performance integration and sports science Grant Thorne served as a strength and conditioning assistant with the Packers from 2015-23\u2026Assistant strength and conditioning coach Abe Munayer completed a strength and conditioning fellowship with the Packers during the team’s OTAs in 2021\u2026Assistant offensive line coach Jahri Evans played his last NFL season for the Packers in 2017, starting 14 games at right guard before retiring\u2026 TE Robert Tonyan played for the Packers from 2018- 22\u2026LB Jamin Davis spent time on the Packers’ practice squad in 2024\u2026DT Dean Lowry played for the Packers from 2016-22…WR Jakobie Keeney-James played for the Packers in 2025…Notable NFL connections: Packers defensive coordinator Jonathan Gannon was the Atlanta Falcons’ defensive assistant and quality control coach when Whitt was the assistant DBs coach with the Falcons in 2007\u2026Parsons played for the Cowboys from 2021-24 when McCarthy was the head coach\u2026Parsons was teammates with Thompson, RB Rico Dowdle and OL Brock Hoffman on the Cowboys from 2021-24\u2026McCarthy was the QBs coach for the Kansas City Chiefs when Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst was a scout in 1998 and executive V.P. and director of football operations Russ Ball served as an assistant strength and conditioning coach and administrative assistant to the head coach from 1995-98\u2026LB Zaire Franklin and Steelers WR Michael Pittman Jr. were teammates with the Colts from 2020-25…Graham was the New York Giants defensive coordinator\/assistant head coach when Packers S Xavier McKinney played for the Giants from 2020-21\u2026Packers QB Tyrod Taylor was teammates with Rodgers on the New York Jets in 2024\u2026LS Matt Orzech was teammates with Steelers DT Sebastian Joseph-Day, S Jalen Ramsey and WR Ben Skowronek when the Los Angeles Rams won the Super Bowl in 2021…Notable college connections: Packers QB Jordan Love and Steelers RB Jaylen Warren played together at Utah State in 2019\u2026Packers WR Jayden Reed, Steelers WR Germie Bernard and LB Jacoby Windmon played together at Michigan State in 2022\u2026 Packers TE Tucker Kraft and Steelers G Mason McCormick were teammates at South Dakota State for four seasons (2019-22)\u2026Parsons was teammates with Steelers TE Pat Freiermuth, S Jaquan Brisker and CB Joey Porter Jr. at Penn State from 2019-20\u2026Packers G Aaron Banks and Steelers WR Ben Skowronek were teammates at Notre Dame in 2020…Packers LB Edgerrin Cooper and Steelers C Ryan McCollum played together at Texas A&M in 2020\u2026 Packers LB Lukas Van Ness was teammates with Steelers DE Yahya Black, S Sebastian Castro, G Gennings Dunker, RB Kaleb Johnson and DT Logan Lee at Iowa\u2026Lee, Black, Castro, Dunker and WR Brandon Smith also played with Packers LB Nick Niemann at Iowa\u2026Steelers OT Broderick Jones and TE Darnell Washington were teammates with Packers DL Devonte Wyatt, S Javon Bullard, DL Nazir Stackhouse and DL Warren Brinson at Georgia…Packers CB Keisean Nixon and Steelers RB Rico Dowdle were teammates at South Carolina from 2017-18\u2026Packers RB MarShawn Lloyd was teammates with Steelers TE Jaheim Bell at South Carolina from 2020-22\u2026Dennis-Sutton was teammates with Steelers QB Drew Allar at Penn State from 2022-25\u2026Packers CB Brandon Cisse was teammates with DB Devan Boykin at N.C. State from 2023-24\u2026 Packers CB Domani Jackson and Bernard played together at Alabama from 2024-25\u2026Packers G Dylan Barrett was teammates with Steelers DT Keeanu Benton, LB Nick Herbig and FB Riley Nowakowski at Wisconsin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers players and staff from Pennsylvania: EDGE Micah Parsons is from Harrisburg, Pa., where he attended Harrisburg High…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111122,8649,24861,8647,8648,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-262900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-green-bay-packers-at-pittsburgh-steelers-2026-pre-1","tag-homepage-cp","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-dope-sheet","tag-news-national-feature","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}