GREEN BAY – It won't take long for Savion Williams to feel comfortable with his fellow Packers draft pick at wide receiver, Matthew Golden.

They'll be getting reacquainted during Green Bay's upcoming rookie minicamp, actually.

Because during Williams' second year at TCU, he hosted Golden on a recruiting visit. Golden wound up choosing Houston before ultimately transferring to Texas, and the two didn't cross paths again until the scouting combine.

But to have a shared memory like that back when the NFL was more dream than reality for both isn't all that common.

"That's the crazy part," Williams said.

The competition brewing at receiver for the Packers in 2025 is getting kind of nuts, too, after Green Bay drafted Williams in the third round at No. 87 overall, just one night after taking Golden in the first round.

Christian Watson won't be back until sometime later this fall from knee rehab, but Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed, Dontayvion Wicks, Mecole Hardman, Malik Heath and Bo Melton will now be joined by Golden and Williams for a donnybrook of a battle for playing time in Head Coach Matt LaFleur's offense.

General Manager Brian Gutekunst admitted he didn't envision taking two receivers within his first three picks in this draft, but that's how the draft board fell. He's not regretting what's developing at the position, especially with all four of last year's top receivers reaching the end of their rookie contracts this season or next.

"We've got a really good room and it's going to be really competitive to get on the field and get snaps and get targets," Gutekunst said. "But that's the way you want it, right? To win in this league, you have to have playmakers and right now, across the board, really at all the skill positions, I feel pretty good about our playmakers.

"We've got some young guys that, again, are going to have to develop in our offense and learn it and get comfortable before that can show. We've got a lot of guys coming back that I think are at the point of their career where they're about to take off, and we're excited about that."

There's plenty of enthusiasm for Williams, too, who brings a different body type at 6-4, 222, and skillset, with his prep quarterbacking days turning into wildcat QB usage during his final season at TCU, when he was named honorable mention All-Big 12 for the second straight year.

Williams started 38 games over the last three years for the Horned Frogs, catching 130 passes for 1,576 yards and 14 TDs from 2022-24. He added 322 rushing yards and six TDs on the ground last year, showing work as an all-purpose-weapon that prompted Gutekunst to say he "fits Matt's offense to a T."

"Everything that my team needs me to do, that's what I'm doing because that's what I did my last year at TCU," Williams said. "They needed me. Our running game wasn't the best so they put me back there in wildcat and ran me and, shoot, that's what I did to help my team."

Asked what first caught his eye when he began studying Williams, Gutekunst didn't hesitate to answer.

"His ability with the ball in his hands," he said. "Obviously size as well … but his determination, his ability, his elusiveness, his power, his ability to break tackles, those were the first things that stuck out to you."

His maturity made an impression, too. Back in 2022, Williams' mother went through what TCU publications termed a "major life event" and has continued to support him. The following year, his daughter was born prematurely and needed both abdominal and heart surgeries during an extended stay in neonatal intensive care.

Williams shared the details of his story with the Packers during a formal meeting at the combine, and then he started to sense how serious Green Bay was about him when he was invited for a pre-draft visit. Then the other day he got a call to confirm his phone number.

"They told me how much they loved my game and things," he said. "I kind of went into this part thinking it was gonna be the Packers."

And the Packers are thinking they've added a potential playmaker who isn't quite the same as those already in the fold.

"Matt and his offensive staff, just the creativity, they can use this guy in so many different ways," Gutekunst said. "We were really excited to get him."