RP Clips: Where Should the Packers WR's Be Ranked?

**Matt Harmon** (0:00)
This is Reception Perception, The Show. Now, James Koh and Matt Harmon. I mentioned that there was going to be five players that you and I had disagreed on. We're kind of cheating here with the fourth section because it's really kind of all three Packers receivers, but mainly the first two that there's a big gap on in our rankings. But I'm pretty much higher on all of the Packers receivers, I'm about 17 spots higher on Christian Watson, 12 spots lower, you're about 12 spots lower on Jayden Reed, and you're about five spots lower on Matthew Golden. Golden is the tough one because I just don't have a strong take on Matthew Golden, I'm curious if you do.
But Reed is a guy that I've really been in on this year, and the reason I'm not really drafting in that like Courtland Sutton aisle where he goes in Yahoo drafts because Jayden Reed goes not too long after. There are other players in that same sort of bucket where, I mean, man, tell me why is the floor and ceiling case all that difference between these two guys, but maybe I've misread this Packers situation here, so can you explain, I guess, why you're a little bit lower on all three of these Packers receivers? Because Jeff, to me and the listeners of this show and people that subscribe to this channel know, I've joked that we've talked way too much about the Packers receivers over the last few years, mostly because it's been this annoying rotation that's hard to figure out. It seems like it's going to be consolidated this year, so why are you not into this trio here this year?

**Jeff Bell** (1:28)
Well, because of the guy that's not mentioned here within this list, the Tucker Craft at tight end. Fair. I mean, that's a big part of it. I do think that, I don't know where I land on Jordan Love, I guess is maybe part of it. But to some regard, I think that Jordan Love, it's a little bit of the let Russ cook argument on where we're always like, more past volume, come on, and wish casting that within the Packers. Whereas I can't help but think that the Packers know Jordan Love very, very well and are putting Jordan Love in exactly the position that they're comfortable putting Jordan Love into. I do think we tend to, especially in the fantasy community, we look at hyper efficiency, we look at those things and we just say, well, if you just move the slider over here, then look how this is going to be without recognizing that Tony Pollard could be the most efficient running back when he's playing and Zika Lally comes off the field. But if you give every carry to Tony Pollard, all of a sudden, he's averaging 3.8 yards per carry and you're wondering what happened to my efficient running back. And so I think that I probably have some trust in the Packers offensive scheme to be pushing Jordan Love to the limit of where they're comfortable, Jordan Love sitting. And so I do think that there's maybe some wish casting on Lut Russ Cook, like Jordan Love, like just more passing volume. Look how good this could be if there's Jordan, if there were more passing volume.
The Josh Jacobs injury might shade that quite a bit because if Josh Jacobs is not Josh Jacobs or that level of involvement and you do get forced into leaning on the past volume there a little bit more, that could change it. But I think the other part of it, I wish I knew what the beat writer was, but Dave Kluge has beat writers come through on the serious show. He talked about one of the beat writers for the Packers mentioned that Tucker Kraft is basically the number one option within that passing attack.
If you're going to keep some control on where Jordan loves passing volume and if overall numbers are going to end up and you're going to have Tucker Kraft as that top option there, then yes, we could get a lot more concentrated volume to Watson, to Reed, to Golden than what we've ever gotten out of the receivers. And it could not really change where we end up on the receivers.

**Matt Harmon** (3:44)
Yeah, I think this is one where I'm maybe telling myself a story and the projections are always going to kind of push against this because I do kind of buy Jeff that not only is this receiver room going to be consolidated between these three guys, and I think it will probably be a lot of what we saw in the first preseason game where in 12 personnel, it's Matthew Golden at X and Christian Watson at Z, and then when they bring in 11 personnel, it's going to blur a little bit.