One of the popular topics at the Green Bay Packers ’ 2025 Training Camp has involved “getting Jayden Reed and Matthew Golden on the field at the same time.” I have no doubt that Matt LaFleur, who is something of a play design genius, can, in theory, design a game’s worth of plays to get Golden and Reed on the field at the same time. They would probably be super-awesome plays. However, the reason for the question, and the root of the problem, isn’t that LaFleur can’t do this, but that he almost certainly won’t do this.

And this may end up being a problem. It’s actually one of the things that lurks in the back of my mind as “a reason that the Packers might be worse than they should be.” Reed played primarily outside in college, and he was just as dynamic then with the ball in his hands as

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