The connections between the 2024 version of the New York Jets and past versions of the Green Bay Packers are obvious, starting with quarterback Aaron Rodgers , and including players like Davante Adams and Allen Lazard.
Perhaps, those connections will be even deeper in 2025. On Tuesday, the Jets requested to interview Jon-Eric Sullivan, the Packers’ vice president of player personnel, for their general manager position, open since the franchise fired Joe Douglas during the season.
Sullivan started in the NFL with an internship with the Packers in 2003, and it changed his life. He had different scouting roles from 2004 to 2015, when his career really started to take off. In 2016, he was promoted to director of college scouting by former general manager Ted Thompson.
When Brian Gutekunst took over in 2018 and Eliot Wolf left the team, Jon-Eric Sullivan became the second executive in the hierarchy of the scouting department, being promoted to co-director of player personnel — and his status was solidified in 2022, when he was named the vice president of player personnel.