Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Packer Plus
Packers announce promotions
The Green Bay Packers announced several changes to Matt LaFleur's offensive coaching staff last Tuesday.
The team promoted Jason Vrable to receivers coach/passing game coordinator, Luke Butkus to offensive line coach, Connor Lewis to assistant quarterbacks coach and Ryan Mahaffey to assistant offensive line coach.
Vrable, a college quarterback, spent the last two seasons as the wide receivers coach. He's taking over the passing game coordinator role from Luke Getsy, who left to become the offensive coordinator and playcaller for the Chicago Bears.
Butkus is moving up to offensive line coach after spending the last three seasons as Adam Stenavich's assistant. The Packers promoted Stenavich to offensive coordinator, replacing Nathaniel Hackett, who left to become head coach of the Denver Broncos.
Lewis, a mathematics major at Vanderbilt, has been with the Packers for six seasons. He spent last season as a special team assistant and game management specialist, but he was an offensive quality control assistant in 2020 and a data analyst for the offense from 201619. The Packers have not yet hired a quarterbacks coach to replace Getsy.
Mahaffey, a former tight end and fullback, will assist Butkus along the offensive line. He was an offensive quality control assistant in 2021 after joining the Packers from Northern Iowa, his alma mater.
Tight ends coach Justin Outten, meanwhile, was hired by Hackett and the Broncos as the team's new offensive coordinator.
Outten joined the Packers in 2019 on LaFleur's first coaching staff. He's been the tight ends coach for the last three seasons.
Senior analyst John Dunn was promoted as Outten's replacement. Dunn joined LaFleur's staff last year. Prior to coming to Green Bay he coached tight ends for the New York Jets for two years and was a football assistant and then offensive assistant with the Chicago
Bears (2017-18).
Dunn, who played quarterback and tight end at North Carolina, also was the offensive coordinator at Connecticut in 2018 and from 2011-15, coached tight ends and was the recruiting coordinator at Maryland.