GREEN BAY – As the Packers closed the offseason program last month, perhaps no one was more appreciative of his spot in the auxiliary portion of the locker room than Jack Coco.
The former Georgia Tech offensive lineman…turned long snapper…turned tight end…and now turned long snapper again put in the miles to earn his place on Green Bay’s 90-man roster.
“I’ve been working my whole life to have an opportunity like this,” Coco said. “My hard work from high school to college – changing positions multiple times. Always having that skill of long snapping has really paid off. It gives me an opportunity to come here and compete for a spot.”
Coco had a fascinating five-year run with the Yellow Jackets. He snapped on field goals and extra points for three years but never in-game on punts. An aspiring offensive lineman when he walked on in 2017, Coco eventually dropped 30 pounds and moved to tight end during his redshirt junior year.
After earning a full scholarship last summer, Coco didn’t snap in games at all as a senior and concentrated solely on the tight end position and other facets of special teams.
Coco wasn’t sure where his eclectic football resume would lead during the pre-draft process, but the 6-foot-2, 248-pound athlete still was bound and determined to find out – choosing to delay the completion of his master’s degree in real estate development.
“I’m one credit away,” Coco said. “I talked to my professors because I was supposed to write my thesis this summer, but they told me, ‘The thesis can wait. Go chase your dream, go pursue this as much as you can, because you can come back and get this degree.'”
Having dabbled at both tight end and long snapper, it raised a question of where this jack of many trades would focus his training leading up to Georgia Tech’s March 14 pro day.
So, Coco did it all. Every Tuesday and Thursday, he would snap, do blocking drills and run routes. He lifted on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and left Saturdays for cardio.
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