The Packers panopticon turned its attention to Christian Watson this week.

The electric-but-injured receiver seems to be creeping closer to making his 2025 debut after tearing his ACL in the Packers’ 2024 regular-season finale. Counting today, it has been 255 days since Watson’s injury, definitely putting him on the speedy end of the ACL return timeline. But given what Watson can bring to the table as a football player, perhaps that’s not surprising. Speed has always been basically his entire thing.

And speed is what the Packers’ need right now. Outside of Matthew Golden, the Packers don’t really have a field stretcher on the roster right now, and they’ve had a bit of trouble connecting with Golden deep. Two would-be big plays went awry during the Packers’ Thursday Night Football win ove

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