At start of the 2025 offseason, Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst plainly stated that the team needs to ramp up its sense of urgency and compete for championships. Even though the Packers made the playoffs as the youngest team in the league for the second year in a row in 2024, lackluster starts against the best teams consistently plagued Green Bay throughout the season, including the 22-10 wildcard loss to the Philadelphia Eagles.
Gutekunst literally put the team’s money where his mouth is by signing cornerback Nate Hobbs and guard Aaron Banks in free agency. A month and a half later, he drafted receiver Matthew Golden in the first round after the Packers pass catchers’ disappointing 2024 campaign.