Green Bay Packers Blog: Christian Watson and Romeo Doubs are needed as WRs for the Packers

GREEN BAY, Wis. – Fifty-two snaps. That’s all Christian Watson And Romeo Doubs This season, we played together.

The season is halfway through and there are eleven games left. Green Bay PackersThe rookie receivers of the team have all been on the field together for less than one complete game.

If there’s anything that the Packers (4-7) would like to see in the last six games of this losing season, it is perhaps the Packers. some game action for backup quarterback Jordan Love — it’s more of what the rookie receivers can do together.

Doubs missed only one of the three previous games. Watson has flown since Doubs’ ankle injury in Week 9 against the Lions. And while Doubs was making plays in training camp, preseason and in the early part of the regular season, Watson couldn’t stay on the field.

“Those are certainly two guys that we’re excited about and definitely want to get out there just in terms of just their playmaking ability,” Packers coach Matt LaFleur said. “I think you’ve seen the more these young guys play, the more confidence they’re getting, the better they’re going to play, and they’ve got some juice, too. I think that’s certainly been a noticeable difference the last couple games with Christian out there.”

Watson and Doubs have been tied together ever since general manager Brian Gutekunst picked them in the second and fourth rounds, respectively, of this year’s draft as part of the receiver build in the post-Davante Adams era.

One was rarely mentioned without the other prior to the season, except for Watson’s absence from training camp due to a knee injury. Doubs became the first to be in the limelight, while Watson was left in the background due to more injuries and dropped passes (a hamstring injury that prevented him from playing in three games, and concussions that prevented him from participating in two).

Doubs was active for 396 snaps. In nine games, he had 31 catches for 314 yard and three touchdowns. Watson had 10 catches and 88 yards, but no touchdowns. Watson had eight catches for 155 yards, and five touchdowns. Watson did not have Doubs in his last two games. Nearly half his total of 224 snaps this season were made in the two previous games.

“I think we’ve got to get the ball to our playmakers, and he’s stepped up the last two games,” Rodgers said of Watson after Thursday’s loss to the Titans. “The over-the-shoulder catch [against the Cowboys] He gained a new level of confidence. We caught them too many on the field so I gave him my ‘trust ball. I threw it in the back of my end zone and he took it down.

“He’s playing with a lot of confidence. You can see that he dropped many times during practice the week before last Sunday. There were no drops in the last few days. He was able to catch everything [against the Titans]. Yes, we’ve got to give him the ball more.”

Watson and Doubs took 15 snaps in a single game this season. It happened twice in Week 1, against the Vikings, as well as Week 4, against the Patriots. The other four times they’ve played together, it has been for one, two, nine and 10 snaps.

Doubs wasn’t placed on injured reserve by The Packers following the Lions match because they hoped that he would be back in less than one month. LaFleur said after last week’s loss to the Titans Doubs is getting closer to a return, but he wasn’t ready to declare him back for this Sunday’s game against the 9-1 Eagles (8:20 p.m. ET, NBC).

The Packers may not just want Watson and Doubs together more often. The seventh-round rookie receiver is their third. Samori ToureYou could be next in line for even more snaps

“I think he’s another guy that we’ve got to definitely rotate into the mix a little bit more,” LaFleur said.