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Local Connections
Packers T/G Billy Turner attended Mounds View High School in Arden Hills, Minnesota. He played for Vikings Offensive Coordinator Gary Kubiak, Offensive Line Coach/Run Game Coordinator Rick Dennison and assistant offensive line coach Phil Rauscher in 2016 when Kubiak (head coach), Dennison (offensive coordinator) and Rauscher (offensive coaching assistant) were with the Broncos. Turner's father, Maurice Turner, ws a 12th-round pick by the Vikings in the 1983 NFL Draft. He played 23 games for Minnesota from 1984-85 before finishing that season with Green Bay.
Vikings LB Ryan Connelly, who attended Eden Prairie High School, played collegiately at Wisconsin.
Vikings-Packers Connections
Packers inside linebackers coach Kirk Olivadotti's father, Tom, was a defensive assistant coach for Minnesota from 1996-99.
Packers defensive backs coach Jerry Gray held the same role with the Vikings from 2014-19.
Vikings Senior Defensive Assistant Dom Capers was defensive coordinator with the Packers from 2009-17.
Coaching Connections
Vikings Offensive Coordinator Gary Kubiak was head coach of the Texans from 2006-13; LaFleur was an offensive assistant in Houston from 2008-09.
Professional Connections
Vikings QB Kirk Cousins (2012-17) teamed with Packers OLB Preston Smith (2015-18) in Washington. Cousins worked directly with Packers Head Coach Matt LaFleur in Washington from 2012-13.
Vikings backup QB Sean Mannion was with the Los Angeles Rams when LaFleur as the offensive coordinator in 2017.
Vikings T Rashod Hill overlapped with Packers TE Marcedes Lewis in Jacksonville in 2016.
College Connections
Vikings K Dan Bailey and Packers G Lane Taylor at Oklahoma State
Vikings LB Anthony Barr and LB Eric Kendricks with Packers NT Kenny Clark at UCLA; Vikings running backs coach Kennedy Polamalu was UCLA's running backs coach from 2014-15 and offensive coordinator in 2016
Vikings RB Mike Boone and LB Eric Wilson at Cincinnati with Packers TE Josiah Deguara
Vikings CB Cameron Dantzler and Packers LG Elgton Jenkins at Mississippi State
Vikings RG Pat Elflein and Packers C Corey Linsley at Ohio State
Vikings assistant special teams coordinator Ryan Ficken overlapped with Packers TE Marcedes Lewis at UCLA
Vikings CB Jeff Gladney at TCU with Packers LB Ty Summers and S Vernon Scott
Vikings DT Jaleel Johnson and Packers CB Josh Jackson at Iowa
Vikings DE Yannick Ngakoue and Packers S Darnell Savage at Maryland
Vikings DE Ifeadi Odenigbo at Northwestern with Packers DL Dean Lowry and DL Tyler Lancaster; Vikings LB Eric Wilson also began his college career at Northwestern, overlapping with Odenigbo and Lowry; Vikings offensive quality control coach Christian Jones played wide receiver for the Wildcats from 2011-15
Vikings PR/KR K.J. Osborn and Packers LB Jonathan Garvin at Miami
Vikings T Riley Reiff and Packers LB Christian Kirksey at Iowa
Vikings TE Irv Smith, Jr., and Packers P JK Scott at Alabama
Vikings DT Shamar Stephen and Packers backup QB Tim Boyle at Connecticut
Vikings DT Armon Watts and Packers LB Randy Ramsey at Arkansas