GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 One week after a memorable NFL Draft in Green Bay, the Packers are hosting their rookies this weekend for an orientation camp.<\/p>\n
First-round draft pick Matthew Golden out of Texas is fully aware he\u2019s the first wide receiver to be taken in the first round by the Packers since Javon Walker in 2002.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s definitely unique,\u201d said Golden. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s what made that pick even more important to me. Just understanding the history behind it. Definitely thankful to be in this position. I\u2019m looking forward to what\u2019s in front of me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Packers head coach Matt LaFleur admits that his approach to rookie camps has changed through the years. They will only practice to a small degree on Saturday.<\/p>\n
\u201cJust try to get these guys a taste of what\u2019s to come,\u201d said LaFleur. \u201cKind of knock off the jitters a little bit. All these guys are amped up, and you just want to get them acclimated as fast as possible. Because the next time that they\u2019re in here, it\u2019s going to be phase two, and they\u2019re going to be in with the vets.\u201d<\/p>\n
Golden was in Green Bay for the draft. He will wear number 22 for the Packers for a very special reason.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy grandma, her favorite number was two growing up,\u201d said Golden. \u201cShe told me she wanted me to represent that number. And so, I knew the last receiver that was drafted was 2002.\u00a0I feel like it kind of made sense to me. Definitely my best friend. She helped me get to this point. I feel like, me being here, I could give her the thanks for helping me get here. The rest is on me. Come out here and have fun and compete. Allow myself to put my best (out there) each and every day.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Packers\u2019 second-round pick was huge offensive lineman Anthony Belton from North Carolina State \u2014 6 feet 6 inches tall, 336 pounds.<\/p>\n
The Packers haven\u2019t told him yet where they will line him up. Belton told Spectrum News he does have some good role models.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just coming in and competing,\u201d said Belton. \u201cI definitely did watch a lot of tape of Tristan Wirfs, Laremy Tunsil, Penei Sewell, even Ikem Ekwonu, a guy I played with. I feel like those guys do it right. Passing and running game. They dominate working first level, second level, moving in space.\u201d<\/p>\n
Belton said a \u201cpancake\u201d block to him is the equivalent of scoring a touchdown for others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY, Wis. \u2014 One week after a memorable NFL Draft in Green Bay, the Packers are hosting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":74858,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[1615,1613,15638,7,41,345,2514,2513,88,6,428,9,1004,991],"class_list":{"0":"post-74857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-app-sports","9":"tag-app-top-stories","10":"tag-dennis-krause","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-green-bay","13":"tag-green-bay-packers","14":"tag-greenbay","15":"tag-greenbaypackers","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-packers","19":"tag-sports","20":"tag-top-stories","21":"tag-wisconsin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114561515839689156","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74857","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=74857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74857\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}