Jets will interview a Packers top executive for their general manager role
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' […]
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.
A former college wide receiver, Jon-Eric is son of Jerry Sullivan, who coached football at the college and NFL levels for 40 years and retired in 2021.
Jon-Eric Sullivan made A to Z Sports’ list of potential future general managers and the list of Packers executives to watch.
It's a long list of interviews, though. The Jets will also talk or have talked to Thomas Dimitroff, Jon Robinson, Jim Nagy, Louis Riddick, Mike Borgonzi, Ray Farmer, Alec Halaby, Ryan Grigson, Mike Greenberg, and Trey Brown.
The move also shows how the Packers' front office is respected around the league, and how the team's roster-building process can serve as a model.
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