The president of the Packers team, Mark Murphy, announced the choice of the first round of the team. He started by saying: “For the first time since 2022”, sending the green crowd and decorated in a frenzy.
Murphy didn’t even need to finish his sentence because fans of hard packers knew what it meant.
Texas Matthew Golden, the 23rd choice in total, was the first broad receiver that packers have selected in the first round since Javon Walker in 2002.
The packers needed it after Christian Watson tore an ACL in a week 18 game against the Bears.
“I will say this: in no time in my 20 years in this organization, whether (previous managing directors) Ron (Wolf) or Ted (Thompson), I heard them talk about it as a philosophy,” said the Director General of Packers, Brian Gotekunst, via Rob Demovsky d’Espn. “I know Ron talked a lot to be crazy, he didn’t take Randy Moss, do you know what I mean?”
“”No one has really talked about it. I have never really watched it that way. I don’t think we’ve never been about taking a receiver in the first round if the right one was there. We have certainly talked about it at different times in the past seven years since I have been there, trying to get there. So, I don’t really consider him a philosophical thing. I would say that we have reached many second round receivers. There were many guys that we took in this group who really became, very good players for us. Not only we, but throughout the league. »»
Gutekunst spent second round choices on Watson in 2022 and Jayden Reed in 2023, but he gave Jordan Love something that Aron Rodgers never had as a quarter-back starting from the team.
When Golden arrived on stage, he shouted: “Green Bay, it’s time.”
