{"id":266655,"date":"2025-08-06T15:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/266655\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T15:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T15:20:17","slug":"packers-qb-jordan-love-makes-strong-hint-matthew-golden-could-be-his-wr1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/266655\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers QB Jordan Love makes strong hint Matthew Golden could be his WR1"},"content":{"rendered":"

Packers QB Jordan Love makes strong hint Matthew Golden could be his WR1<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a><\/p>\n

The Green Bay Packers stunned their fanbase back in April when they used their first-round pick on wide receiver Matthew Golden.<\/p>\n

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It marked the first time since 2002 that the Packers had selected a wideout in the opening round, a clear signal they expect big things from the former Texas Longhorns star.<\/p>\n

Golden already seems to be earning the trust of his quarterback, Jordan Love<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cMan, I think he\u2019s shown up since Day 1 and just really shown his play style, shown what he\u2019s all about,\u201d Love said on Kevin Clark\u2019s This Is Football. \u201cHe came in really polished and has been making plays since Day 1. He\u2019s got very aggressive hands, he\u2019s a smooth route runner, he\u2019s got speed. So I think for him, it\u2019s just continuing to understand the playbook and wrap his head around everything we have in. We have a very deep system.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you can see, when he knows what he\u2019s doing, and he\u2019s feeling confident, he\u2019s been playing lights out. He\u2019s gonna be a stud.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Golden first broke out at Houston, earning second-team All-Big 12 honors in 2023, before transferring to Texas last season. With the Longhorns, he posted 58 catches for 987 yards and nine touchdowns.<\/p>\n

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Love\u2019s glowing endorsement only reinforces what scouting reports<\/a> said about Golden leading up to the draft.<\/p>\n

“Golden\u2019s starting-level traits and big leap forward as a go-to playmaker have him primed to become a productive catch-maker with the potential to develop into a WR1 in the future,” NFL.com\u2019s scouting report said.<\/p>\n

MORE:Packers\u2019 rookie Matthew Golden projected to be better WR than Davante Adams<\/a><\/p>\n

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Despite the Packers\u2019 crowded receiver room \u2014 which features Romeo Doubs, Christian Watson, Jayden Reed and Dontayvion Wicks \u2014 Golden may give Love something he hasn\u2019t truly had yet: a legitimate No. 1 wideout.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Packers QB Jordan Love makes strong hint Matthew Golden could be his WR1 originally appeared on The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266656,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1501,5430,3992,7,41,345,2514,2513,221,763,1724,701,6,428,3995,1078],"class_list":{"0":"post-266655","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-christian-watson","9":"tag-davante-adams","10":"tag-dontayvion-wicks","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-green-bay-packers","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-houston","17":"tag-jayden-reed","18":"tag-jordan-love","19":"tag-matthew-golden","20":"tag-nfl","21":"tag-packers","22":"tag-romeo-doubs","23":"tag-texas-longhorns"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114982501538856583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}