Jayden Reed

WR·

Green Bay Packers·#11·5'11"·190 lb·3rd year·Michigan State

UNDERPAIDTier 1Round 2, pick 50 in 2023

Updated November 4, 2026

78.7

Model Score

Up from 76.9 last year

Trade value ·a late 2nd

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Jayden Reed has 4 catches, 24 receiving yards and 0 touchdowns in 2 games for the Green Bay Packers this season through Week 8, 3.2 PPR points a game (updated November 4, 2026).

Model Score by season

Up 1.8 from last season.

How good he is at what he is supposed to be doing, out of 100. Not a projection of what he will do next, and not a read on his contract. Median is about 70, and a 95 is rare. How it is built →

STM Take

A slot-and-gadget weapon whose season ended on the trainer's table.

The case for

2024 tier 3 #23 finish on 55 catches for 857 yards plus 4 rushing touchdowns is real WR2 production for a 2nd-round pick. Career receiving touchdowns total 16 across three seasons.
Slot route tree plus gadget-play rushing volume (career 13+ designed carries) gives him two ways to score in Matt LaFleur's offense.

The worry

Zeros in Wks 16, 17, and 18 of 2025 confirm the season ended on injury. Recovery timing is the immediate 2026 variable.
Green Bay drafted Matthew Golden in the 1st round (#23) in 2025, which compresses Reed's target ceiling regardless of the 2025 injury outcome.

What to watch: Whether the 2026 target share holds above 6 per game with Matthew Golden, Romeo Doubs, and Dontayvion Wicks also in the WR room.

Full take and bio

The 2025 #53 (tier 7) finish is misleading because the game log (zeros in 6 of 8 logged weeks) confirms the season ended early. From tier 3 (#23) in 2024 to a clearly injury-shortened 2025 is the same story as half the Packers' offensive injury reports. The 2026 question is purely physical: when healthy, Reed produced tier 3 output across his first two seasons.

Reed came out of Michigan State (after transferring from Western Michigan) as Green Bay's 2nd-round pick (50th overall) in 2023 after a 1,026-yard senior season. He posted 64 catches for 793 yards and 8 touchdowns as a rookie, finishing tier 4 #32 in 2023, then broke out at tier 3 #23 in 2024 with 55 catches for 857 yards plus 4 rushing touchdowns from gadget usage. The 2025 season fell off a cliff: the game log shows zeros in multiple weeks across Wks 16-19 with one Wk 19 15.7 PPR spike, the pattern of a shortened or injury-disrupted year.

Comps

The players whose size, testing and production looked most like his at the same point in their careers. The percent is how close.

Haywood Jeffires ’8989%Brian Blades ’9084%

Randall Cobb ’1271%

Kayshon Boutte ’2468%Stedman Bailey ’1465%

Plays like: Haywood Jeffires, Art Monk, Andre Reed. Built like: Kaelin Clay, Derrick Williams, Randall Cobb. Coming out: Markus Wheaton, Dyami Brown, Calvin Ridley.

Of his 20 closest coming out: 1 star, 8 starters, 6 backups, 5 didn't stick.

Jayden Reed Injury StatusIR

Jayden Reed is listed on injured reserve (Neck), reported Sep 30, with a return date of Feb 15. Source: the official NFL injury report, refreshed daily.