Green Bay Packers Already Placing Pressure on Matthew Golden to Produce in 2026
The Green Bay Packers need immediate impact from Matthew Golden in 2026. Expectations are sky-high for the young receiver to become a true WR1 in 2026.
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Could they go and get a number one receiver, right?
Could you go get, you know, this is I'm just shooting, I'm just shooting from the hip, Ja'Marr Chase.
Could you go get somebody who is a legit one who could come in and change it, change things from that perspective?
I don't think that's a need.
that would be a more a want to have and not a need to have.
but- Yeah I still think it would be a lot of fun.
I, I think that as fun as that is, we're gonna run into some reality when it comes to that.
Now, I'm gonna get there in a minute with you.
but you, you made me think, I feel like the Packers think they have their number one in Matthew Golden.
And I don't know if that- Yeah, sure.
I don't know if that necessarily came through last year in the way that they used him, but I think we saw in that playoff game that, I mean, he had a great game against the Bears and, and, um- Yeah the reason they drafted him, I believe, is 'cause they looked ahead.
Romeo Doubs is gonna be a free agent.
I don't think they're gonna be able to pay him.
and not only that, but I, I think we're, we need to give a little bit more love to Christian Watson, who- Yeah you know, he, he, he came back from that injury and he, you know, we, we know how hard those injuries can be to come back from.
As much as we've talked about how there's improvements and, and how guys can come back from ACLs and things like that, to be a twitchy, fast, tall athlete in the comeback and look like he didn't miss a step, I think at least with the two of them, with a healthy Tucker Craft- Yeah I, I like what that offense can look like.
Though I do agree, Green Bay likes to go out in the draft in the fifth, sixth round and, you know, get like, you know, two or three wide receivers, two or three offense linemen and, and just keep cycling them, you know?
And then, and then they tell everybody, "It's g- look, we drafted every Look-" Yeah, we drafted a wide receiver.
Yeah.
We drafted a wide re-
