The Green Bay Packers are going to have to do something with their wide receiving room this off-season. Going into last season many felt Green Bay could have one of the deepest wide receiving units in the NFL. However, by seasons end injuries and drops were too consistent to feel confident about this group going into the off-season.
Star running back Josh Jacobs was vocal during Super Bowl week about Green Bay adding a proven star at the position.
Today, General Manager Brian Gutekunst commented on that.
Packers’ Brian Gutekunst Comments Christian Watson’s Injury, Adding A Wide Receiver
The Packers’ General Manager Brian Gutekunst confirmed today that wide receiver Christian Watson will miss the start of the 2025 regular season due to a torn ACL. That explains why the Packers need a wide receiver:
“Obviously Christian is going to miss some time, probably, at the beginning, more than likely,” Gutekunst said. “We’ll see where that goes. That’s going to create opportunities for some guys on the roster that I’m excited for. We’ll see how that shakes out. We have a long way to go. We’ve got free agency. the draft, everything coming up.”
The Packers have drafted nine wide receivers in the second round since the last time they took a wide receiver in the first round, but Gutekunst said Green Bay doesn’t necessarily view the second as a better round than the first to find good receivers.
“It’s never been something like, ‘We don’t want to take wide receivers in the first round,’” Gutekunst said. “There were certainly opportunities we had when we thought that was going to happen and for whatever reason it didn’t.
But at the same time, we’ve had a lot of second-round receivers who have been good players for us. The immediate impact of wide receivers is changing because of the way these guys are coming out of school, where they can be more impactful quicker. But it’s never been a philosophical thing for us, just more how it shook out.”
Here is a look at Watson’s stats in 2024:
| Receiving | Rushing | Scrimmage | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | Age | Team | Lg | Pos | G | GS | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | 1D | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | 1D | Lng | Touch | Y/Tch | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | AV | Awards | ||||||||||
| 2022 | 23 | GNB | NFL | WR | 14 | 11 | 66 | 41 | 611 | 14.9 | 7 | 28 | 50.0 | 63 | 2.9 | 43.6 | 62.1 | 9.3 | 7 | 80 | 2 | 2 | 71.4 | 46 | 11.4 | 5.7 | 0.5 | 48 | 14.4 | 691 | 9 | 0 | 7 | AP ORoY-7 |
| 2023 | 24 | GNB | NFL | WR | 9 | 9 | 53 | 28 | 422 | 15.1 | 5 | 20 | 50.9 | 77 | 3.1 | 46.9 | 52.8 | 8.0 | 4 | 11 | 0 | 1 | 25.0 | 13 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 32 | 13.5 | 433 | 5 | 0 | 4 | |
| 2024 | 25 | GNB | NFL | WR | 15 | 15 | 53 | 29 | 620 | 21.4 | 2 | 21 | 47.2 | 60 | 1.9 | 41.3 | 54.7 | 11.7 | 4 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 75.0 | 14 | 5.8 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 33 | 19.5 | 643 | 2 | 1 | 6 | |
| 3 Yrs | 38 | 35 | 172 | 98 | 1653 | 16.9 | 14 | 69 | 49.4 | 77 | 2.6 | 43.5 | 57.0 | 9.6 | 15 | 114 | 2 | 4 | 60.0 | 46 | 7.6 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 113 | 15.6 | 1767 | 16 | 1 | 17 | |||||
| 17 Game Avg | 17 | 16 | 77 | 44 | 740 | 16.9 | 6 | 31 | 49.4 | 77 | 2.6 | 43.5 | 57.0 | 9.6 | 7 | 51 | 1 | 2 | 60.0 | 46 | 7.6 | 3.0 | 0.4 | 51 | 7.0 | 791 | 7 | 0 | 8 | |||||
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