GREEN BAY — Brian Gutekunst is fond of saying how he was raised in scouting by Ron Wolf and Ted Thompson.
Wolf, the retired Green Bay Packers general manager whose work as the architect of the Packers’ renaissance and Super Bowl XXXI title led to his Pro Football Hall of Fame induction, hired Gutekunst for his first job in NFL scouting as an intern in 1998. Thompson, whose tenure as GM ran from 2005 until 2018 and included the 2010 team’s Super Bowl XLV title, promoted Gutekunst up the personnel department ranks until he was one of Thompson’s top lieutenants before succeeding Thompson.