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GREEN BAY, Wis. – What a difference about 11 months can make. Less than a year ago, the Green Bay Packers had major questions at receiver following the free-agent departures of Allen Lazard and Randall Cobb.
No, they weren’t stars, but they were proven players. The Packers didn’t have a single proven playmaker. As rookies, Christian Watson had three games of 50-plus yards and Romeo Doubs had no catches of longer than 26 yards and didn’t break a single tackle. And they were supposed to lead the next-generation Packers passing attack?
How deep is the receiver room? The Packers thrived even with Christian Watson being limited to nine games with hamstring injuries.
Watson is incredibly talented. He just needs to get on the field and stay on the field so he can stack performances. He went from 41 receptions for 611 yards (14.9 average) and seven touchdowns with a 62.1 percent catch rate and 6.4 YAC per catch in 2022 to 28 receptions for 412 yards (15.1 average) and five touchdowns with a 52.8 percent catch rate and 4.1 YAC in 2023.In 30 career regular season games through two seasons, Romeo Doubs had one game of 80-plus yards – a largely irrelevant nine receptions for 95 yards in the blowout loss to Detroit in Week 4. Then came the playoffs, with a dominant six catches for 151 yards at Dallas and four receptions for 83 yards at San Francisco. A superb route-runner, Doubs is a bit of a conundrum as a receiver with superb hands yet too many drops.