Matthew Golden Camp Update — August 31: A Forty-Five-Yard Touchdown From Love

The headline throw of the week's one practice writeup went to Matthew Golden. Jordan Love opened eight-for-10 at Wednesday's joint practice with Arizona, and the 45-yard touchdown to Golden was the day's big play, per Wes Hodkiewicz at packers.com. One practice touchdown is one rep, and we'll size it that way — the same writeup has Love's next throw going to Jayden Reed on a crosser and coming back a drop, so this is one report of one session, not a depth chart.

Sunday settled the room. Golden is on the initial 53 among six receivers — with Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, Skyy Moore, Bo Melton and undrafted rookie J. Michael Sturdivant — per Hodkiewicz, while all three of the finale's receiver standouts were cut, per Bill Huber at Packers On SI, and Savion Williams went to injured reserve, designated to return, per Evan Siegle at packers.com.

Our last episode's watch line was conditional — whether Golden starts alongside Reed and Watson in the finale if the starters play — and the condition failed: Kyle McCord played the whole game Friday and no starters appear in the beat's account of it, per Mike Spofford at packers.com. The other half, where his snaps line up once the roster cuts — outside or in the slot — has no answer either; nothing in the window places his alignment, and the joint-practice item carries no such detail. That question stays open. The June preview called Golden a bet on the job rather than the rookie tape, and the week fits the bet: the job keeps handing him the reps that get written up, most recently the 45-yard touchdown at Wednesday's joint practice. Target volume in a real game plan remains unobserved. We'll come back to the alignment question when there's tape.

_Data via nflverse._