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Brett Thiesen

College Scout

Biography

Brett Thiesen enters his sixth season with the Packers' player personnel department and his second as a college scout covering the Midlands region for the Packers in 2023. 

Thiesen (THEE-sin) spent three seasons as a National Football Scouting Inc. college scout after being named to that position on June 11, 2019, and served as the team's National Football Scouting representative to the annual NFL Scouting Combine. Thiesen started with the team as a scouting intern during the 2018 season, helping with the evaluation of college and pro prospects. 

Prior to joining the Packers, Thiesen spent three years evaluating high school recruits for college football programs. He served as the assistant director of personnel at Liberty University in 2016 before working in the same role for the University of Tennessee in 2017. He began his scouting career as a personnel intern, first for Mississippi State in the spring of 2015 and then at the University of Miami for the 2015 season. 

Thiesen played collegiately at wide receiver as a preferred walk-on at the University of Kentucky in 2010 before transferring to Troy University. 

Thiesen earned a degree in sports management from Troy in 2015, and is a native of Jensen Beach, Fla. He played just one season of football at Jensen Beach High School, earning second-team all-state and first-team all-area honors as a senior in 2009. He also lettered all four years in baseball for the Falcons. 

His father, Gator, played baseball at Mississippi State while his mother, Lisa, was a cross-country runner for the Bulldogs. Thiesen resides in Green Bay.

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