When Matthew Golden heard his name called as the Green Bay Packers’ first-round pick in the 2025 NFL Draft, the former Texas Longhorns wide receiver knew exactly what he wanted to do with his first NFL paycheck: buy back his grandmother’s house, a property his family lost several years ago.
“Definitely get my grandma a house, man,” Golden told reporters during draft week. “We lost our property a couple of years ago. That’s somewhere I grew up when I was younger. It’d be a blessing to be able to get that back for my family.