The Green Bay Packers will have a very interesting training camp battle as over a dozen wide receivers compete for jobs and playing time. Christian Watson, of course, will likely not be able to play at the start of the season due to a torn ACL. However, others such as Romeo Doubs, Jayden Reed, and Dontayvion Wicks are veterans that are certified locks to make the roster.
So too are rookie Matthew Golden and Savion Williams, whom the Packers selected in the 2025 NFL Draft.
This means that five of the six (maybe seven) spots for wide receiver on the 53-man roster are likely accounted for already. Indeed, it is difficult to make the final cut at the position in the NFL, and that is certainly true in Green Bay where many talented wide receivers have had to move on because of all the competition.
And now two of them are searching for work with one of the Packers’ biggest rivals in the NFC.
Former Green Bay Packers Grant DuBose and Equanimeous St. Brown Have Tried Out for the San Francisco 49ers
According to Easton Butler of Packer Report, two former Packers wide receivers have tried out for the San Francisco 49ers:
Grant DuBose was a seventh round pick by the Packers in the 2023 NFL Draft, the same year the team selected Reed and Wicks. He did not, however, play at all for Green Bay as a rookie and failed to make the 53-man roster last season as well. As a result, he was released and picked up by the Miami Dolphins.
In three games with Miami last season, DuBose had two receptions for 11 yards.
Equanimeous St. Brown, the older brother of Detroit Lions wide receiver Amon Ra St. Brown, was a sixth round pick by the Packers in the 2018 NFL Draft. He spent four seasons with the organization, and appeared in 37 games for the team (though none of them came when he was not on the roster in 2019). In that time, he caught 37 passes for 543 yards and one touchdown.
St. Brown has also played for the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints.
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