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There have been good stories already from the Green Bay Packers’ offseason work. And one rookie has everybody excited. And that dude is the Packers’ single-best move in the 2025 NFL offseason.
Throughout the 2025 offseason, the Packers have been hard at work. They added wide receiver Mecole Hardman, offensive guard Aaron Banks, cornerback Nate Hobbs, kicker Brandon McManus, and linebacker Isaiah McDuffie.
Each of those moves looks like a good decision by the Packers’ organization. But when draft day came, they found Matthew Golden still on the board when it came their time to pick at No. 23.
Here is what ESPN’s Matt Miller had to say about getting Golden.
“After decades of not taking a wide receiver in Round 1, the Packers give the home crowd something to cheer about with a speedy pass-catcher who will immediately boost the team’s big-play ability,” Miller wrote. “Golden led the FBS with 23 catches of 20-plus yards last season and had the fastest 40-yard time of any offensive player at the combine with a 4.29-second time. Green Bay has its quarterback in Jordan Love and a potent run game. Now it adds my WR2 in this class with Golden.”
Many NFL teams could be kicking themselves as the 2025 season rolls along. They will likely watch Golden become a key weapon for Love.
Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst said he thinks the best is yet to come for the young wideout, according to yahoo.com.
“The one thing as we scouted him, he’s a third-year junior coming out,” Gutekunst said. “He’s a young guy. And his best football is ahead of him. He’s still got a lot of room for growth. He’s not at his ceiling.”
Carmen Vitali of Fox Sports said good things about Golden, according to the Best Podcast Available via yahoo.com.
“If he’s treated like a true No. 1, which . . . Matt LaFleur last year was like, ‘I’m allergic to that phrase, I don’t like that phrase,” Vitali said. “Well regardless, you’re going to have to choose someone that Jordan Love can rely on. And if Matthew Golden can be that guy, live up to his draft position and all of that, I think that can go a long way.”
Golden could give that little something extra to a Packers’ passing game that created problems for defenses because of depth. But it didn’t have that one guy to scare people. Now, in Golden, they may have it.
“Green Bay’s strength last year was that they had so many options,” Vitali said. “But when you couple in quarterback injuries, and injuries to those options where you’re not fielding the same options, you’re not fielding the same quarterback all the time, then whatever continuity you had gets completely lost. Because there’s so many moving parts to that offense that when they’re not all available at the same time, you can’t into a...
