{"id":2997,"date":"2025-04-27T01:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T01:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/2997\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T01:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T01:55:09","slug":"fans-react-to-green-bay-packers-draft-pick-matthew-golden-switching-number-to-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/2997\/","title":{"rendered":"Fans react to Green Bay Packers draft pick Matthew Golden switching number to 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wide receiver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/packers\/2025\/04\/25\/matthew-golden-speed-gives-him-chance-to-be-special-green-bay-packers\/83244179007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Matthew Golden was picked 23rd in the 2025 NFL Draft;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Matthew Golden was picked 23rd in the 2025 NFL Draft<\/a>, but he&#8217;ll now be wearing No. 22 for the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/football\/nfl\/teams\/green-bay-packers\/335\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Green Bay Packers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Green Bay Packers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It was announced April 25 on ABC, with Desmond Howard on set, via social media that <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/article\/jersey-number-matthew-golden-wear-004133373.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Golden would wear Howard&#039;s former No. 81;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Golden would wear Howard&#8217;s former No. 81<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>But Golden has opted for the double deuces, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DI7DTENh9Tg\/?hl=en\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:another Packers social media post April 26;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">another Packers social media post April 26<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.packers.com\/team\/players-roster\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:confirmed on the Packers roster page;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">confirmed on the Packers roster page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Golden, wore No. 2 at both the University of Houston and the University of Texas, possesses elite speed. That led one commenter to compare him to a Hall of Fame receiver who also wore 22 and was fleet of foot: &#8220;Bullet&#8221; Bob Hayes of the Dallas Cowboys.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes won two sprint gold medals in the 1964 Olympics before playing 11 years in the NFL for Dallas. He&#8217;s the only athlete to win a gold medal and a Super Bowl.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s some more reaction to Golden changing his number:<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/story\/sports\/nfl\/packers\/2025\/04\/26\/packers-matthew-golden-switches-number-to-22\/83299359007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Packers&#039; Matthew Golden switches number to 22 and fans have thoughts;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Packers&#8217; Matthew Golden switches number to 22 and fans have thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wide receiver Matthew Golden was picked 23rd in the 2025 NFL Draft, but he&#8217;ll now be wearing No.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2998,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[80,2876,257,931,7,41,345,2514,2513,701,6,428,2877],"class_list":{"0":"post-2997","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-2025-nfl-draft","9":"tag-bob-hayes","10":"tag-dallas-cowboys","11":"tag-desmond-howard","12":"tag-football","13":"tag-green-bay","14":"tag-green-bay-packers","15":"tag-greenbay","16":"tag-greenbaypackers","17":"tag-matthew-golden","18":"tag-nfl","19":"tag-packers","20":"tag-social-media"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114407442079563780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997","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=2997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2997\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}