Report: Raiders Target Packers' Jon-Eric Sullivan, Bucs' John Spytek for GM Role

The Las Vegas Raiders requested to interview Green Bay Packers vice president of player personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan as part of their general manager search, according to NFL Network's Ian Rapoport.

ESPN's Adam Schefter reported Tampa Bay Buccaneers assistant general manager John Spytek will also interview with Las Vegas.

Sullivan recently interviewed with the Tennessee Titans for the same role, and he's reportedly a target for the New York Jets. Spytek met with the Titans as well.

Sullivan joined the Packers full time in 2004, working first as an area scout and steadily moving up the ladder. He became the director of scouting in 2016 and was named a co-director of player personnel in 2018. He assumed his current role in 2022.

Spytek is in his second season as Tampa Bay's assistant GM, having first arrived in 2016. He was the Bucs' vice president of player personnel for two years before becoming the second in command behind general manager Jason Licht.

The MMQB's Albert Breer included both Sullivan and Spytek in a list of likely future GMs working in NFL front offices.

He credited Spytek and Tampa Bay's front office for having "turned one of the oldest rosters in the league into one of the youngest, without falling off—and with multiple head coaches and quarterbacks at the helm."

Breer also offered insight into Sullivan's contributions in Green Bay.

"A football lifer, as the son of long-time NFL receivers coach Jerry Sullivan (who still works with Justin Jefferson), Jon-Eric Sullivan has proven himself an exceptional evaluator, a strong link between scouting and coaching and a valuable safety net for Gutekunst on anything in the draft or free agency," he wrote.

"Sullivan's been involved in the cap too, had a voice in the coaching search that landed Matt LaFleur and even has been looped in on things like player discipline and strength-and-conditioning. As an anecdote, he happened to be the scout who first put Jordan Love on Gutekunst's radar."

Being able to identify quarterback talent would be very helpful for the Raiders.

Las Vegas is all but guaranteed to have a new starting quarterback in 2025 and the franchise could look to address that need through the draft with a dearth of good options available in free agency.

The Raiders have the No. 6 overall pick, which means they'll need to trade up if they want to get one of the top two signal-callers (Miami's Cam Ward and Colorado's Shedeur Sanders) on the board. Absent that, it will be imperative for the franchise to either find a QB who's worth reaching for in the Top 10 or offers hidden value in a later round.