Packers' Matthew Golden Credits Strong Faith For Reaching Nfl: 'he Definitely Helped Me Get Here'

When Matthew Golden walked retired of nan greenish room astatine nan 2025 NFL Draft successful Green Bay this past Thursday, he emerged arsenic a personnel of the Packers – and nan hometown fans fto him perceive really excited they were for it. 

The surreal infinitesimal still feels for illustration a dream to Golden.

"Just nan measurement it happened, I consciousness for illustration God made it hap for illustration that for a reason. That’s thing that’s going to instrumentality pinch maine forever," he told Fox News Digital while besides discussing his clip moving pinch Tide astatine the draft. 

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Wide Receiver Matthew Golden of Texas poses pinch NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell and President and CEO of nan Green Bay Packers Mark Murphy aft being selected twenty-third wide prime by nan Green Bay Packers during nan first information of nan 2025 NFL Draft astatine Lambeau Field connected April 24, 2025 successful Green Bay. (IMAGN)

Golden's reply astir his draught time infinitesimal says it each successful position of really overmuch religion plays a ample domiciled successful his life. 

The Houston, Texas, autochthonal said that he "grew up successful nan religion house," wherever he learned to play nan drums astatine six years old. 

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That beardown faith, arsenic good arsenic a beardown family connection, has helped thrust Golden to nan heights of nan NFL today. And he knows he wouldn't beryllium successful this position without those 2 pillars of instauration successful his life. 

"There were times adversity did deed maine and God was nan 1 who was location for me," Golden explained. "There were times group doubted me, and I did want to springiness up sometimes. But going backmost to God, he decidedly helped maine get here."

NFL draught prospect, Matthew Golden of Texas, signs autographs during nan NFL Draft Red Carpet arena astatine Lambeau Field successful Green Bay connected Thursday, April 24, 2025. (IMAGN)

One of nan biggest pieces of adversity came successful 2023 erstwhile Golden suffered a ft wounded while playing for nan Houston Cougars. After a coagulated 9 games, he had to miss nan remainder of nan play because of it. 

"That was nan first clip shot sewage taken distant from me," Golden said of nan injury. "So, I didn’t cognize really to header pinch it and I was frustrated. But astatine that time, my narration pinch God grew a batch stronger, and I started to understand it happened for a reason."

Golden would participate nan transportation portal successful December of that year, and he landed pinch nan Longhorns, remaining successful Texas not excessively acold from home. 

Golden posted his champion collegiate play successful his 1 twelvemonth pinch Texas, tallying 58 receptions for 987 yards and 9 touchdowns complete 16 games to thief nan squad scope nan College Football Playoff. 

He would later tally a 4.29 40-yard dash astatine nan NFL Scouting Combine, cementing his spot arsenic 1 of nan champion receivers successful this year's class, and nan Packers jumped astatine nan opportunity to make franchise history. 

Wide receiver Matthew Golden embraces NFL commissioner Roger Goodell aft nan Packers prime him pinch nan 23rd prime during nan first information of nan 2025 NFL Draft connected Thursday, April 24, 2025, astatine Lambeau Field successful Green Bay, Wisconsin. The draught runs done April 26. (IMAGN)

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For nan first clip since 2002, nan Packers selected a receiver successful nan first information of nan NFL Draft, and Golden is fresh for this adjacent section of his shot career. 

"Now looking back, it decidedly makes sense, and for illustration I said, God put maine done everything I went done successful my life for a reason. I consciousness for illustration that’s genuinely what made maine who I americium coming and that’s why I americium who I am."

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