Packers travel east to face the Giants

Packers players and staff from New York: LB Isaiah McDuffie (Buffalo), assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia (Yonkers), offensive quality control Rob Grosso (Lackawanna) and defensive assistant Jeff Koonz (Wallkill)…TE John FitzPatrick was born in New York City…Packers players and staff from New Jersey: DL Rashan Gary (Plainfield), CB Bo Melton (Egg Harbor City), defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley (Montvale), RBs coach Ben Sirmans (East Orange), general counsel Kevin Manara (North Plainfield)…Packers players and staff who played college football in New York/New Jersey: Melton played at Rutgers from 2017-21…Hafley played college football at Siena College from 1997-2000…Packers coaches who have coached in New York/New Jersey: Hafley coached defensive tackles at Albany from 2002-03 and served as defensive backs coach/recruiting coordinator from 2004-05…Hafley coached the secondary at Rutgers in 2011…Passing game coordinator Jason Vrable coached at Syracuse for two seasons, working as offensive quality control/assistant to the WRs coach in 2009 and as a graduate assistant/assistant to the QBs coach in 2010… Packers coaches and staff with connections to New York/New Jersey: National scout Mike Owen attended Riverhead (N.Y.) High School…National scout Sam Seale attended Orange (N.J.) High School…Giants with connections to Wisconsin: QB Russell Wilson played at Wisconsin in 2011…OL Marcus Mbow is from Milwaukee, Wis., and attended Wauwatosa East (Wis.) High School… OLBs coach Charlie Bullen played quarterback at St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wis. …Former Giants: S Xavier McKinney was a second-round draft pick (No. 36 overall) by the Giants in 2020 and played for the team from 2020-23…K Brandon McManus spent the 2014 offseason with the Giants…Pass game specialist/game management coach Connor Lewis worked in the football analytics and information department for the Giants in 2014…Director of player engagement Grey Ruegamer played three seasons for the Giants (2006-08) and was on the team that won the Super Bowl in 2007…Former Packers: G Jon Runyan Jr. was a sixth-round draft pick (No. 192 overall) by the Packers in 2020 and played for Green Bay from 2020-23…G Greg Van Roten signed with the Packers as an undrafted free agent in 2012 and played for Green Bay from 2012-13…Secondary coach/pass game coordinator Marquand Manuel played for the Packers in 2006… Notable NFL connections: Packers head coach Matt LaFleur was the Atlanta Falcons’ QBs coach when Manuel was the Falcons’ secondary coach and assistant DL coach Bryan Cox was the DL coach…Giants defensive coordinator Shane Bowen and OL coach Aaron Stinnie were on the Tennessee Titans’ coaching staff in 2018 when LaFleur was the offensive coordinator…Packers QBs coach Sean Mannion spent training camp with the Seattle Seahawks in 2021, where he was teammates with Wilson…Giants OL Jermaine Eluemunor and Van Roten were teammates with Packers RB Josh Jacobs and CB Nate Hobbs with the Las Vegas Raiders…Eluemunor also played with Packers CB Keisean Nixon with the Raiders…Giants TEs coach Tim Kelly was on the Titans’ coaching staff when Packers QB Malik Willis and TE Josh Whyle played there…Packers defensive coordinator Jeff Hafley and Cox were on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers’ coaching staff from 2012-13… Ball was a senior football administrator for the Minnesota Vikings when Giants DL coach Andre Patterson was on the coaching staff in 1999…Packers WRs coach Ryan Mahaffey spent time with the Miami Dolphins in 2012 when Giants general manager Joe Schoen was a national scout and Bullen was on the coaching staff…Packers offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich spent the offseason with the Carolina Panthers in 2006 when Schoen was an area scout there…Packers DL Arron Mosby and Giants OLB Brian Burns were teammates with the Panthers in 2022…Packers DL Micah Parsons and Giants DL Chauncey Golston played together with the Dallas Cowboys for four seasons (2021-24)…McManus was teammates with Wilson, Giants OL Austin Schlottmann and LS Casey Kreiter with the Denver Broncos…Giants WRs coach Mike Groh was on the Los Angeles Rams’ coaching staff in 2016 when Mannion and Packers special teams quality control coach Cory Harkey played there…Mannion was teammates with Schlottmann with the Minnesota Vikings…Packers RB Chris Brooks and Giants S Jevón Holland were teammates with the Miami Dolphins in 2023…Giants director of pro scouting Dennis Hickey worked in scouting for the Buccaneers when Packers assistant head coach/special teams coordinator Rich Bisaccia was on the coaching staff and assistant special teams coach Byron Storer played there…Packers G Aaron Banks and Giants LB Demetrius Flannigan-Fowles were teammates with the San Francisco 49ers for four seasons (2021-24)…Flannigan-Fowles also overlapped with Packers strength and conditioning coordinator Aaron Hill with the 49ers from 2019-23…Harkey was on the Buffalo Bills’ coaching staff when Giants RB Devin Singletary and Van Roten played there…Harkey also crossed paths with Giants assistant QBs coach Chad Hall in Buffalo in 2022… Packers defensive line/run game coordinator DeMarcus Covington was on the New England Patriots’ coaching staff from 2017-24, where he crossed paths with Giants OL coach Carmen Bricillo, offensive assistant/minority coaching fellow Troy Brown, assistant OL coach James Ferentz, assistant special teams coach Cam Achord, WR Gunner Olszewski and Eluemunor…S Zayne Anderson played for the Kansas City Chiefs when Giants interim head coach Mike Kafka was on the coaching staff…Bullen and Grosso were on the Arizona Cardinals’ staff together from 2019-22…Notable college connections: McKinney and Jacobs played at Alabama when Giants offensive passing game coordinator/QBs coach Shea Tierney was on the coaching staff in 2017…Tierney and Groh crossed paths with Packers passing game coordinator (defense) Derrick Ansley at Alabama…Packers WR Malik Heath and Giants QB Jaxson Dart were teammates at Mississippi in 2022…Parsons and T Rasheed Walker were teammates with Giants TE Theo Johnson at Penn State…Gary, Runyan and Giants OL James Hudson played together at Michigan from 2017-18…Giants assistant general manager Brandon Brown worked in recruiting and personnel for Boston College when Packers LBs coach Sean Duggan played there…Packers CB Carrington Valentine and T/G Darian Kinnard were teammates with Giants WR Wan’Dale Robinson and CB Andru Phillips at Kentucky…Packers CB Kamal Hadden and Giants WR Jalin Hyatt played together at Tennessee…Harkey played at UCLA when Giants special teams coordinator Michael Ghobrial was on the coaching staff…Packers DL Lukas Van Ness was teammates with Giants S Dane Belton, RB Tyrone Tracy Jr. and Golston at Iowa…Giants RBs coach Ladell Betts was on Iowa’s coaching staff when Van Ness played there… Willis and Giants WR Darius Slayton were teammates at Auburn for two seasons (2017-18)…Giants T Andrew Thomas, Packers DL Devonte Wyatt, LB Quay Walker and FitzPatrick played together at Georgia…Packers assistant OL coach Eddie Gordon and defensive quality control coach Wendel Davis were on Georgia’s coaching staff when Thomas played there.