Texas football star wideout Matthew Golden is drawing some encouraging comparisons ahead of the 2025 NFL Draft.
The Longhorns are coming off a successful first season in the SEC, which saw the team win two games in the College Football Playoff.
While the season ended in the semifinal to eventual national champion Ohio State, Texas football is certainly back and should be annual title contenders for the foreseeable future. Matthew Golden helped with this rise in his one year in Austin.
The Houston local led the Longhorns with 987 yards and nine touchdowns in 2024 and became essential in, for example, the exciting quarterfinal playoff victory over Arizona State.
Now, Golden is off to the professionals and indexed excessive on many draft boards. ESPN NFL Draft Analyst Aaron Schatz gave Golden a stable rating and a few eye-establishing comparisons in his modern day 2025 NFL draft extensive receiver projections.
“Playmaker Score projection: 574 yards/season
Scouts Inc. ranking: 17
Similar historic prospects: Jaylen Waddle, Curtis Samuel (with out the carries)
Golden ranks 0.33 amongst this yr’s receivers in Playmaker Score due to the fact he is projected as a mid-first-spherical select out and is popping out a yr early. Otherwise, his metrics are not pretty as fantastic as you may expect.
Golden had fifty eight catches for 987 yards and 9 touchdowns final season withinside the Longhorns’ sixteen games. They threw the ball 541 times — the fourth maximum withinside the nation.
Golden had the quickest forty time amongst extensive receivers on the combine (4.29 seconds), however records indicates there may be no statistical sign in a player’s forty time which you may not already locate in his university performance.”
