The brain drain from the Green Bay Packers’ front office this winter was a tough pill to swallow. When Brian Gutekunst was hired as the general manager to succeed Ted Thompson, it spelled a clear end for Eliot Wolf, who was one of the favorites for that job. Wolf left shortly after Gutekunst’s hiring to take a job with the Cleveland Browns and their new GM, John Dorsey — who is also a former Packers executive, having served as the Chiefs’ GM in between.
Wolf brought another top executive with him in Alonzo Highsmith, robbing Gutekunst’s new-look scouting team of two exemplary talent evaluators.