just thinking about the time romeo doubs caught the game-tying TD from jordan love in the home opener last year and threw up the heart handspic.twitter.com/bafTuhReSS https://t.co/mTSuFfvlt7

— erin alyce (@herooine) May 21, 2024

The Packers have incredible depth at wide receiver. How good you may ask?

Christian Watson, Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed and Dontayvion Wicks are the best team of wideouts in the NFC North. And that doesn’t even count Bo Melton who earned his stripes last year after spending some time on the practice squad. 

The Vikings certainly have the best top tier talent. Justin Jefferson could make an argument as a top three wideout and Jordan Addison caught 10 touchdowns as a rookie last year. But after that, the Vikings are grasping at straws. Brandon Powell is on his sixth team and Trishton Jackson, Jailen Nailor and Trent Sherfield Sr. will need name tags when training camp starts because nobody will know any of those guys. 

Then there are the Bears. Chicago has to have a lot go right with this crew. They are counting on a lot of things to go right in their wide receiver room if they want to be at the top of this list. Their No. 1 wideout of DJ Moore is solid as evidenced by five solid seasons in Carolina with pathetic quarterback play. Then there’s 32-year-old Keenan Allen. Chicago is hoping that he can turn back the hands of time and add a little spring to his step. He hasn’t played a full season since 2021 but he caught a career-high 108 passes last year. The Bears are hoping that Allen can pull a carbon copy and do that again. Then there’s rookie first rounder Rome Odunze. He’s 6-foot-3 and looks the part but again, he’s a rookie, so expectations should be tempered. 

The Lions are similar to the Vikings. Amon-Ram St. Brown is probably a top three wideout even with an average Jared Goff at quarterback. Then there’s Jameson Williams. He had huge expectations as a pro electrifying fans at Alabama. But he tore his left ACL in the 2022 national title game. The expectations are sky high for him, and for the Lions that took him with the 12th overall pick in 2022. Kalif Raymond is on his seventh team as a 29-year-old and Donovan Peoples-Jones put up decent numbers for Cleveland but his production nosedived after 2022. And the expectations for Tom Kennedy and Antoine Green are to just make any impact whatsoever — whether that’s as a wideout or on special teams. 

The Packers are five deep. That is absolutely crazy. You could make an argument that Watson, Doubs and Wicks could be a No. 1 wideout on a different team. Yes, Watson is technically still the No. 1 on this team, but it doesn’t really matter. Reed is sensational on third down. Doubs has great staccato movements and solid route running. Tben there’s Melton, who will drop jaws at training camp this summer. And I didn’t even get a chance to mention Malik Heath. 

A lot has been made about top shelf wideouts in the last few years. But if we’ve learned anything from the last couple drafts, it’s that you can build and assemble quality wideouts without breaking the bank or using a first round pick.