The Green Bay Packers Draft Wide Receiver Romeo Doubs In Round 4

On Friday night, Green Bay Packers general manager Brian Gutekunst was asked if his wide receiver room was “settled.” The Packers had just used a second round draft pick on North Dakota State wideout Christian Watson, but Gutekunst made it clear he wasn’t done.

“Settled probably isn’t the word I would use,” Gutekunst said. “I think there’s going to be a lot between now and the first game. But I really do like the group.

“We’ll kind of see how it goes. But I do really like the group, but I wouldn’t say we’re settled. That’s for sure.”

Gutekunst proved that Saturday when he used his first of two fourth round draft picks — No. 132 overall — to select wide receiver Romeo Doubs of Nevada,

The 6-foot-2, 201-pound Doubs has ideal size, but a wiry frame. He had four productive years at Nevada, was lauded for his ball skills and competitiveness and ran the 40-yard dash in a respectable 4.53 seconds at his pro day.

Doubs slipped down many draft boards, though, as teams were concerned about his strength, his ability to beat press coverage and his run-after-the-catch ability.

“His ability to kind of play over guys, use that length, he runs those slants, he doesn’t break stride, there’s no tip-toeing through there, he’ll play in traffic,” Packers co-director of player personnel Jon-Eric Sullivan said of Doubs. “He plays an aggressive style of ball at the receiver position, not only in traffic making the contested catches but you watch him when the ball’s in his hand and he’s good.

“He’s looking to making something happen. He’s not content just catching it and going down. He’s looking to make something happen. That was one of the things that attracted us to him. We thought he had a chance to be a playmaker with the ball in his hand.”

Doubs had 80 receptions for 1,109 yards as a senior (13.9 yards per catch) and scored 11 touchdowns. During his COVID-shortened junior season, Doubs caught 58 passes for 1,002 yards and nine touchdowns.

He was named All-Mountain West Conference first team each of the past two seasons and was an honorable-mention all-conference player as a sophomore in 2019.

“Right off the bat I know I can say confidently I know I can take the top off,” Doubs said. “I know I can play inside and out on the field. I have great special teams skills. I can play kickoff return. I can play punt return. I feel like I’m very versatile just to be a part of this organization and just being able to produce as much as I can so we can win games and win Super Bowls.”

Doubs also has the ability to play special teams — both as a return man and on coverage units. And Sullivan said he’ll be given every chance to be Green Bay’s to win the Packers’ return job in 2022.

“Whatever the coaches want me to do, I’m going to bring it, whether it’s flying down on the kickoff or catching punts or if it’s catching kickoff returns,” Doubs said. “Whatever the coaching staff requires me to do, I just believe that it is up to my responsibility to do it. In the end, just wherever the coaches put me, just know regardless … I know it’s an opportunity.”

Doubs will now join a wide receiver group that has many jobs up for grabs after Green Bay traded Davante Adams this offseason and lost Marquez Valdes-Scantling in free agency.

“He’s got a lot of natural talent,” Sullivan said of Doubs. “Again, like they all do, he’s got to come in here and show he can do it at the highest level. We feel confident that he will. Obviously we took him. But he’s got a lot of skills that he can continue to develop as time marches along.”