Within the 2025 NFL draft, the Packers used a first-round and third-round choose so as to add to their WR room. Inexperienced Bay chosen Texas’s Matthew Golden and TCU’s Savion Williams.
These rookies be part of Jayden Reed, Romeo Doubs, Christian Watson, Dontaviyon Wicks, Malik Heath, and Mecole Hardman. The Packers’ WR core is all however locked in for the 2025 season. With WR crowded in 2025, former WR Bo Melton is giving CB a shot. Tom Silverstein of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported that coaches have been impressed with Melton and have been keen to provide him a possibility.
Will Bo Melton make a full-time change to CB?
#Packers WR/CB Bo Melton(?)
Bo working with the DBs to begin apply. 👀 pic.twitter.com/5kh0j4aMH1
— Marques Eversoll (@MarquesEversoll) June 10, 2025
With a seventh-round choose within the 2023 NFL draft, the Seahawks chosen WR Bo Melton out of Rutgers. Throughout closing cuts in August, Melton was launched from the staff and finally signed with Inexperienced Bay. As a rookie in 2023, Melton performed in 5 video games and made one begin for the Packers. Throughout his sophomore marketing campaign in 2024, Melton performed in all 17 video games for Inexperienced Bay. Moreover, he performed 32% of the staff’s particular staff snaps final season.
This offseason, the Packers used excessive draft capital to pick two WRs. It’s trying extremely robust for Bo Melton to make the Packers roster as a WR this season. Nonetheless, his coaches will not be giving up on him. Just lately, Inexperienced Bay launched veteran CB Jaire Alexander. The staff is skinny at CB, and head coach Matt LeFluer is keen to provide Melton a possibility.
Bo Melton has proved he’s versatile for the Packers and is taking reps at CB this week. Basic supervisor Brian Gutekunst talked about how a number of gamers in league historical past have been in a position to make a change from WR to CB. One modern-day instance is Payments’ CB Tre’Davious White. He was a full-time WR in faculty earlier than he joined Buffalo. White has made 86 begins at CB for the Payments over eight seasons. Who’s to say Bo Melton can’t make the same change and turn out to be a beginning CB within the NFL?
