{"id":44783,"date":"2022-05-02T17:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T21:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/?p=44783"},"modified":"2022-05-02T18:44:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T22:44:20","slug":"green-bay-packers-select-north-dakota-states-christian-watson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/2022\/05\/02\/green-bay-packers-select-north-dakota-states-christian-watson\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers Select North Dakota State’s Christian Watson"},"content":{"rendered":"

With the trading of Davantae Adams<\/strong>, the Green Bay Packers were in need of a wide receiver. \u00a0In the first round, the Packers decided to take both Georgia Bulldogs Quay Walker<\/strong> and DeVonte Wyatt<\/strong>. \u00a0The question was when were the Packers going to replace Adams’s position. \u00a0Well, it seems as if they have found a new target for Aaron Rodgers<\/strong>. \u00a0In order to do this, they had to trade with division rival Minnesota Vikings. This time, the Green Bay Packers decided to select Christian Watson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Green Bay Packers select North Dakota State’s Christian Watson<\/h3>\n

With the 34th pick, of the second round of the 2022 NFL Draft, the Green Bay Packers<\/a> select…Christian Watson, a wide receiver from North Dakota State. There it is, finally a wide receiver for Aaron Rodgers<\/strong> and he gets a good one. \u00a0Watson may be from the FCS, and he may not be a Chris Olave<\/strong> or Garrett Wilson<\/strong>, but he still brings fire power to the offense. \u00a0Weighing at 208 pounds, Woods gave scouts a great show. \u00a0His 40-time finished at 4.36, a 38.5\u00a0 inch vertical, and 18 reps<\/a> with 225 pounds on the bench press.<\/p>\n

Career at North Dakota State<\/h3>\n

At North Dakota State, Watson finished his career with 105 catches for 2,104 yards and 14 touchdowns. \u00a0Watson with the Bisons won three National Championships, first-team honors at kick returner in 2020, returning two kick returns for a touchdown, and was named second-team FCS All American at receiver. \u00a0At first, his draft stock seemed to have gone down a bit, but after an impressive senior bowl, he has now landed with an organization looking to win their first Super Bowl since the 2010-2011 season and play aside one of the best quarterbacks in Rodgers.<\/p>\n

His other receivers<\/h3>\n

The loss of Adams does still hurt Green Bay. But Watson will look to play a big impact on the offensive and possibly special teams’ side if needed. \u00a0His other teammates on the receiving core are Randall Cobb<\/strong>, Sammy Watkins<\/strong>, and Allen Lazard<\/strong>. \u00a0Watson may not become the next Adams, but has the potential and work ethic to be the next star in the NFL. \u00a0Will it happen? Only time will tell.<\/p>\n

Main Image courtesy Green Bay Packers<\/p>\n

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With the trading of Davantae Adams, the Green Bay Packers were in need of a wide receiver. \u00a0In the first round, the Packers decided to take both Georgia Bulldogs Quay Walker and DeVonte Wyatt. \u00a0The question was when were the Packers going to replace Adams’s position. \u00a0Well, it seems as if they have found a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3128,"featured_media":44811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"This post should cover Christian Watson being drafted by the packers","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"1","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"356","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,8,4162,1480],"tags":[8350,79,139,1202,473,8994],"class_list":["post-44783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-fbs","category-fcs","category-nfl-draft","tag-christian-watson","tag-college-football","tag-fcs","tag-nfl-draft","tag-north-dakota-state-bison","tag-packers"],"modified_by":"Tony Siracusa, CFB Managing Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/collegefootball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}