'From forest to fork': Watch Packers quarterback Brett Hundley cook venison from his first deer

Meg Jones
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Packers quarterback Brett Hundley spent part of his recent bye week deer hunting with wide receiver Jeff Janis and took down his first deer during the bow season.

A video of a happy Hundley cooking venison from his first deer was posted on the Door County Daily News website and Youtube.

Hundley harvested a 2-year-old doe with his Matthews hunting bow in Janis' backyard and is shown frying up the tender backstraps – the lean cut of meat along the animal's spine – with butter and onions in a pan.

He said he was hunting for two to three hours in Janis' backyard before he harvested the doe.

“The catch phrase we have is from forest to fork. Me and my boy Jeff Janis, actually last night went out hunting for my first time and – I shot my first deer! And look at where it’s at already. Chef Hundley is already getting to work,” he says.

Standing over a frying pan he filled with sliced venison, a stick of butter, one chopped onion, black pepper and garlic salt, Hundley says he had never experienced processing a deer before, something thousands of hunters will be doing this weekend for the opening of the gun-deer season in Wisconsin.

Hundley said he's eaten a venison bratwurst "thanks to (former Packers receiver) Jared Abbrederis but I've never ate venison like this before. So this is a first for a lot of things."