Matthew Golden may not be returning kicks for the Green Bay Packers, but he's invoking a "Special Team" with his jersey-number assignment. And you'll love the real-time reaction of a former Packers player who once wore it.
The Packers have bestowed No. 81 to the first-round draft pick, a number most famously worn by Super Bowl XXXI MVP Desmond Howard, who's on hand at the NFL draft in Green Bay as a media analyst on ABC, part of the "College Gameday" booth.
Howard, as it happens, was relaying his recollections of that game when his fellow analysts alerted him to "breaking news" that the Packers had posted to social media the number.