'Not Writing a Check' Green Bay Packers Urged to Let Playmaker Walk

As the Green Bay Packers bolstered the wide receiving corps during the 2025 NFL Draft, one veteran has seen his name frequently linked in potential trade conversations as training camp approaches.

While Matthew Golden is likely to make a significant impact as a rookie, Jayden Reed might already be the Packers’ premier talent at the position, Dontayvion Wicks is a key contributor, and Savion Williams might carve out an immediate role as a possession receiver, it leaves some uncertainty surrounding Romeo Doubs.

Why Romeo Doubs Could be Green Bay Packers’ Odd Man Out

Doubs, entering the final year of his rookie contract, has pulled down 174 receptions for 1,700 yards and 15 touchdowns through his first three seasons, but the 2025 campaign may wind up being an audition. For his future with the Packers, and potentially for 31 other teams.

Given that Doubs is entering the final year of his contract, the Packers will have a decision to make either by mid-season, or season’s end, if he isn’t traded well before then, whether to re-sign the 25-year-old or turn the keys over to the other young homegrown receivers the Packers have surrounded Love with across the past few draft classes.

Over at Packers Wire, analyst Mark Oldacres suggests that Green Bay should let Doubs cash in elsewhere.

“Doubs should have a strong market in free agency a year from now,” Odacres writes for PackersWire. “And be paid well, but barring a significant improvement in a host of areas this season, taking him from a slightly above average to difference-making wideout, it will not be Green Bay writing the check.”

It remains to be seen just how robust Doubs’ market develops to be, but barring a breakout as a truly game-changing No. 1, Green Bay might be better off handing the keys to the passing game off to the other young receivers after this season, if not before.