Within the player personnel department of the Packers front office, the departure of former vp of player personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan for the final manager job in Miami left GM Brian Gutekunst without his No. 2. Addressing that concern, Green Bay announced a series of internal promotions throughout the player personnel department this week.
Filling the vp of player personnel role left vacant by Sullivan will likely be Milt Hendrickson. Starting his NFL profession as a training camp intern for the Packers in 2004, Hendrickson’s first full-time opportunity got here in Baltimore, where he spent 14 years going from player personnel assistant to midwest area scout to mid-regional scout to national scout before finally making his method to Green Bay. He’s been with the Packers for the past eight years, working the last seven as director – football operations.
Formerly the co-director of player personnel, John Wojciechowski has been promoted into Hendrickson’s old role as director – football operations. Wojciechowski is in his 14th 12 months with the Packers and his thirty first within the NFL. He began as a player personnel assistant for the Steelers in 1996 and worked as a school scout in Jacksonville for five years and Dallas for nine more before ultimately landing in the identical role for the Packers in 2012. He was promoted to director of professional personnel in 2017 before landing in his most up-to-date role, which he held for eight years.
Richmond Williams will follow the identical path as his predecessor, moving from his most up-to-date role of director of professional personnel to director of player personnel. Williams is entering Yr 19 in Green Bay. After serving because the team’s NFS scout covering the southwest region, Williams was named a school scout in 2012 and a professional scout in 2017, holding the latter role for under two years before reaching his most up-to-date role.
The chain of successive promotion breaks up only a bit here. In keeping with the Packers, senior personnel executive Lee Gissendaner will add the title of director of professional scouting to his title. Matt Malaspina will even assume the title of senior player personnel executive after getting promoted from director of school scouting, and former assistant director of school scouting Pat Moore has been promoted to succeed Malaspina in the total director role.
Gissendaner has spent 25 non-consecutive years with the Packers, starting with the team in 1998 and taking a three-year sabbatical as a national scout with the Jets from 2015-17. He worked 14 years as an area scout before leaving for Latest York and was named a player personnel executive upon his return. Malaspina has been with the team for nine years but is entering his twenty eighth season of NFL experience. Starting with NFS in 1998, Malaspina worked with the Panther for a 12 months, Seahawks for five years, and 49ers for 12 years before landing in Green Bay and getting promoted to director of school scouting following a 12 months as a school scout with the team. Moore held a series of collegiate coaching roles before turning to scouting with the Browns in 2013. He arrived as a school scout in Green Bay in 2018 before getting promoted to his most up-to-date role in 2021.
Lastly, a trio of scouts earned promotions. Mike Owen, a former national scout in his fifteenth 12 months with the team, was named assistant director of professional scouting, Sam Seale, in his thirty second season with the team, was promoted from national scout to senior national scout, and former college scout Luke Benuska was promoted to national scout in his eleventh 12 months in Green Bay.
Owen arrived in Green Bay in 2012 and held a job as a school scout for 13 years before getting promoted to national scout last 12 months. Seale began as a school scout in 1995, became a west regional scout in 2012, and was named a national scout in 2018. Lastly, Benuska originally joined the Packers as a scouting intern in 2016, following recruiting work at his alma mater, TCU. He became a professional scout in 2017 before working the past eight seasons in the faculty scouting role.