With all of the success the Green Bay Packers have had finding fruit on the Ron Wolf tree, choosing the next general manager from the business side might feel like going to McDonald’s and getting a salad.
It might satisfy your hunger, but that’s not why you go.
John Schneider, Reggie McKenzie, John Dorsey, and of course Ted Thompson himself came from what is no longer a tree, but a forest of successful personnel managers. After 19 years with Green Bay, Alonzo Highsmith could soon add his name to the list as a potential successor to Dorsey in Cleveland.