Savion Williams could be a Cordarrelle Patterson-type gadget player for Green Bay Packers | NFL Draft Live (2025)

Yahoo Sports’ ‘Draft Live’ crew reacts to the Green Bay Packers selecting TCU WR Savion Williams in the third round of the draft.

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Saon Williams is the pick wide receiver TCU, uh, OK, so if you're just evaluating Saion Williams is a wide receiver.

Not that great.

Uh, think of like Leviska Channault, like that type of guy.

I will, I will say that I do think he actually has really good.

Receiving skills like actually catching the ball, which is funny because they just showed the the staff that the Packers wide receivers led the league in drops last year.

um, that was an issue for them, but to me Savion's NFL impact is not going to come as a wide receiver.

He's gonna, it's gonna come as like a player you move around the formation.

he's 63/220 pounds like he is built like a true perimeter receiver, but.

He's just not a route runner.

He's not a separator, uh, but he certainly can like if you get the ball in his hands and design touch ways like I think he can impact the team and, and the key, the key part of that though is that some of these gadget players, it's, it's tough to get them in the flow of the offense.

I'm usually skeptical of that, but especially when they're guys like Cadarius Tony who can't, you can't reliably count on him to catch the footballavon.

at least catch the damn ball and then do something with it after after the catch.

You just described that type of play it never works, correct?

Yeah, OK, yeah, it's always nice.

I think the other, yes, you're, you're correct.

What's their wide receiver room look like now, because it, it, it is much more crowded today than it was.

It's always crowded.

It's, I know, but so, so the other thing too is the Packers, no team.

I thought actually this was a stagger.

the drop.

No team, uh, used receiver runs or had the receiver run the ball more than the Packers last year.

They had the most runs.

They had the most explosive gains, the most first downs off of those, and usually it's Jane Reed getting jet sweeps or sweeps from split back fields.

Xavion does that already.

And so I think that's where they're going, the 1 to 1 connection there.

I, I, I hesitate to use this term, the deboro.

But I think that maybe that they want to amplify that, but he's more like Cordero Patterson than Debo, honestly, the guy that I think they could, they could give running back back touches too because I will say from a vision perspective in the open field, he knows how to like set blocks up and stuff especially on the sweeps too.

He is definitely an interesting player.

Like I'm with you, Charles.

Like these guys usually again I'm very skeptical.

Of like the gadget guy that you're gonna get within the flow of your offense, but they have shown a proof of concept to do that with Jayden Reed.

I'm hoping honestly that this means like less gadgety nonsense for Jaden Reed.

Like let that guy be a receiver and he wasn't a creative touch player sort of a fantasy impact here for the Packers.

I mean he freaking better be, man, like uh because it just was so frustrating last year.

Jayden Reed kind of consistently coming on and off the field.

Um, and, or and also then like, all right, he's only used in these design touches ways like let that guy be a real deal receiver in his fantasy production which was super volatile.

He'd have these like 30 point games and then like 4 point games.

He's either making your week if you actually decided to play him or he's completely unusable if you did decide to play him.

And again, hopefully this signals that we got Matthew Gold in here, he can be a real deal receiver for us.

Jaden Reed can be more of a real deal receiver, and I think that would make the room a little more consistent.