NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- With Chad Brinker now in charge of all elements of the Titans' football operation and changed with replacing GM Ran Carthon, we'll see his first front-facing hire.

Brinker came to the Titans to work for Carthon, who he catapulted past in one year, after spending 13 seasons in the Green Bay Packers front office. He loves the way the Packers operate, and odds are very good his first swings will be at colleagues he knows and trusts from there.

Jon-Eric Sullivan, Green Bay Packers director of college scouting, talks in Green Bay, Wis., Thursday, April 26, 2018, about the team's pick in the first round of the NFL football draft. The Packers picked cornerback Jaire Alexander from Louisville with the 18th pick. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
Packers VP of player personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan/ ASSOCIATED PRESS

Jon-Eric Sullivan is currently the Packers vice president of player personnel and he worked with Brinker with in Green Bay for 13 years.

He's been in his current post for three years working up from four seasons as co-director of player personnel for four seasons and two years as the director of college scouting. 

He's also been a college scout covering the Central Plains region (2008-11) and the Southeast region (2012-15) after working as the team's National Football Scouting representative to the annual NFL Scouting Combine and authoring evaluations of all prospective seniors in the Southwest region.

Sullivan's father, Jerry, coached 50 years at the college and pro levels with expertise in wide receivers. He spent time with the Chargers, Cardinals, Lions, Dolphins, 49ers, Jaguars, Ohio State and LSU among others. 

Without final say on personnel, the younger Sullivan could view a move from his current post to Titans GM as lateral. Still, I'd imagine Sullivan will be one of Brinker's first phone calls.

Packers coach Matt LaFleur surely wouldn't want to lose one of the Packers' top personnel men. And Sullivan has his own relationship with Brinker off which to make a judment. But if he looks for LaFleur to chime in, I asked the Packer coach about Brinker at the owners' meetings last spring.

"Brinker is a stud," he told me. "I’d work with him without any hesitation."

 

 

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