NEWS NOW: The Green Bay Packers have welcomed its official receiver.

NEWS NOW: The Green Bay Packers have welcomed its official receiver.

Green Bay has a fantastic bunch of young wide receivers. Going into the 2023 season, general manager Brian Gutekunst and the club took a major risk by surrounding first-year starter Jordan Love with a wide receiver group comprised entirely of rookies and second-year players. In addition, three rookie tight ends and Josiah Deguara surrounded Love.

While not always flawless or totally healthy, the group of Romeo Doubs, Christian Watson, Jayden Reed, and Dontayvion Wicks has provided Packers supporters with a lot to look forward to. Reed is having a historic season, Wicks is being compared to Davante Adams, Watson was performing at an incredibly high level prior to his last injury, and Doubs leads the club in TD receptions.

Unfortunately, seeing all four wide outs 100% healthy and on the field at the same moment has been unusual. While the expectation is that they will be a terrific core for years to come, the uncertainty has fans on social media frequently playing the “what if” game. In a recent post, the question “You can only pick one to come back (in their prime)” was presented, and the alternatives were Jordy Nelson, Donald Driver, or Sterling Sharpe.

The idea, of course, is that either one of these players would give a major boost to the banged-up young core. Each player holds multiple top-10 rankings in various franchise receiving categories, but Driver himself identified the one who would help the most, and it was not himself.

Donald Driver believes Sterling Sharpe would be the most beneficial to the Green Bay Packers right now.

Many of the comments and re-posts had fans choosing Sharpe as the one they would bring back if they could. As it turns out, so would Driver:

Driver was drafted by the Packers in 1999 and, therefore, never played with Sharpe. However, he and Nelson played together for five seasons and were on the team that won Super Bowl XLV. His choosing of Sharpe is truly a testament to Driver’s humility, but also to how great and respected Sharpe still is, nearly 30 years after his career ended.

• Seven seasons
• Five Pro Bowls
• Three First-Team All-Pro’s
• Two top-10 in MVP voting
• 595 receptions (third)
• 8,134 yards (third)
• 65 touchdowns (fourth)

As demonstrated, Sharpe had the shortest career of the three (thanks to a career-ending neck injury), but still ranks in the top five of each major receiving category in team history. Had he never gotten hurt, the debate may not be whether or not he is best wide receiver in Packers history, but rather if he was the best wide receiver in the history of the entire NFL.