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Matthew Golden
Matthew Golden is a wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers. Depth chart: WR2.
Scouting report
Matthew Golden: the full picture
Matthew Golden at a glance
Matthew Golden is a 23-year-old wide receiver for the Green Bay Packers, listed at 5'11" and 191 pounds. The Green Bay Packers drafted Golden 23rd overall in the first round in 2025, out of Texas, and 2026 is Golden's 2nd NFL season.
2026 projection
The Gridiron Value season model projects Golden for 153.8 PPR points in 2026, which ranks WR44 at the position and works out to 10.5 points per game over 17.0 projected games.
2026 season so far
Through 6 games of 2026, Golden has scored 100.7 PPR points, or 16.8 per game. That is 65.5% of the full-season projection; at the current rate Golden would finish with about 285 points, ahead of the 153.8 projected. The best week so far is 22.4 points in Week 6 against DAL, the WR5 finish that week. Golden has cleared the 12-point mark we count as a usable WR start in 4 of 6 games, a 67% consistency rate.
Percentile profile
Measured against the 91 qualified wide receivers of 2026, Golden ranks in the 94th percentile in receiving yards, the 84th percentile in receptions and the 84th percentile in receiving TDs. Four of the 6 tracked categories sit at or above the 75th percentile. The softest mark is the 56th percentile in average separation.
Career track record
2025 is the only completed season on record: Golden finished as WR88 with 70.0 PPR points in 14 games. The totals so far read 59 receptions, 862 receiving yards and 3 receiving touchdowns.
Matthew Golden by the numbers
Golden has finished in the weekly top five at the position 1 time and finished in the top twelve 3 times. The career high is 22.4 PPR points, set in Week 6 of 2026 against DAL. The game log also shows 3 100-yard receiving games. In all, Golden has reached 20 points in 3 games, 15% of career appearances.
How the production happens
In 2026, Golden drew 9.0 targets per game at an average depth of 14.0 air yards. 31% of those targets were deep (15 or more air yards), and 9 targets came in the red zone.
Contract
Golden is playing on a four-year, $17.6 million contract signed with the Green Bay Packers in 2025, an average of $4.4 million per year with $17.6 million guaranteed. The deal runs through the 2028 season.
Dynasty market
In dynasty formats Golden carries a GV stock price of 2,782, which ranks 285th overall and WR100 among wide receivers out of 940 priced players. In redraft the same model ranks Golden 327th overall. Value has moved up 2.3 since the previous model run. The closest profiles by the similarity model are Adonai Mitchell, Tetairoa McMillan and Luther Burden III. See where Golden sits on the trade value chart.
2026 projected stat line
- Projected PPR
- 153.8
- PPR / game
- 10.5
Week 2 projection
Matthew Golden is projected for 7.2 PPR points on the road at NYJ in week 2, with a likely range of 0.0 to 21.9.
Trade value
Gridiron Value prices every player from 0 to 100 within each league format. Value is up 2.3 since the previous model run (stable).
- Redraft
- 21.8
- Dynasty
- 27.0
- Superflex redraft
- 37.2
- Superflex dynasty
- 38.7
- TE premium dynasty
- 16.2
Career stats
| Season | Team | G | Tgt | Rec | Rec yds | Rec TD | Car | Rush yds | PPR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | GB | 6 | 57 | 30 | 501 | 3 | 1 | 6 | 100.7 |
| 2025 | GB | 14 | 44 | 29 | 361 | 0 | 10 | 49 | 70.0 |
Wide receivers ranked near Matthew Golden
- Malachi Fields WR41 · 155.7 PPR
- Malik Washington WR42 · 154.9 PPR
- Jakobi Meyers WR43 · 153.9 PPR
- Deebo Samuel Sr. WR45 · 153.4 PPR
- Chris Godwin Jr. WR46 · 149.6 PPR
- Jordan Addison WR47 · 148.9 PPR
Green Bay Packers fantasy players
- Jordan Love QB · 258.4 PPR
- Christian Watson WR · 211.8 PPR
- Tucker Kraft TE · 191.7 PPR
- Jayden Reed WR · 158.2 PPR
- Jonnu Smith TE · 78.1 PPR
- Josh Jacobs RB · 73.3 PPR
Projections are model estimates, not recorded results. Snapshot 2026-10-20.