​The Green Bay Packers were arguably the most disappointing team in football last year. And perhaps no one did less with more than Packers’ coach Matt LaFleur.Green Bay headed into the 2025 season with one of the NFL’s top rosters, then traded for star defensive end Micah Parsons 10 days before the year began. Suddenly, Packer Nation was dreaming of their first Super Bowl appearance since 2010.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementInstead, Green Bay went a remarkably unsatisfying 9-8-1 overall and was the NFC’s No. 7 seed for a third consecutive year. The Packers then blew a 21-3 halftime lead in the Wild Card round against Chicago, gave up 25 fourth quarter points and eventually suffered a shocking 31-27 loss to the arch-rival Bears.“No way you should lose games in this league when you’re up that much,” running back Josh Jacobs said.Green Bay, which began the year 9-3-1, finished the season with five straight losses. The Packers now enter 2026 with the league’s fourth-longest losing streak.Collapsing late in games was the story of Green Bay’s 2025 campaign.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementGreen Bay had double digit leads in the final minutes twice against Chicago and also vs. Cleveland and somehow went 0-3 in those games. The Packers’ odds of losing all three contests were 1-in-250,000, yet they somehow did it.“That (expletive), it’s starting to get damn-near embarrassing,” safety Javon Bullard said.Rebounding won’t be easy as the Packers were hit hard in free agency and didn’t have a first round draft pick.Green Bay’s first training camp practice is July 29. Between now and then I will count down the ‘30 Most Important Packers’ heading into the 2026 campaign.At No. 15 is wide receiver Matthew Golden.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementGolden, the Packers’ first round draft pick in 2025, finished his rookie season with pedestrian numbers of 29 receptions for 361 yards, an average of 12.4 yards per catch. Golden also didn’t have a touchdown catch in the regular season.Golden had a four-game stretch between Weeks 3-6 when he had 16 catches for 233 yards. Those four games accounted for 55.2% of his receptions and 64.5% of his receiving yards. Along the way, Golden had a huge fourth down catch in Dallas to keep alive the Packers’ final drive in what became a 40-40 tie.Golden missed three games in November with shoulder and wrist injuries, then averaged just 18.8 snaps the next four games.AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisementAfter a quiet regular season, though, Golden had his best game of the year in the Packers’ biggest contest — a 31-27 Wild Card loss to Chicago. Golden finished that night with four receptions for 84 yards and a breathtaking 23-yard touchdown.Golden joined Davante Adams as the only Green Bay rookie wideouts to post 80-plus receiving yards and a receiving TD in a playoff game. Golden also showed that his ceiling could be incredibly high.“I would say it happened exactly how it w