The Green Bay Packers certainly aren't trying to temper expectations for Rashan Gary. The team announced on Monday that the twelfth overall pick of the 2019 NFL Draft will wear No. 52 in green and gold, which until this offseason belonged to star pass-rusher Clay Matthews.

Matthews, 32, signed a two-year, $9.3 million deal with the Los Angeles Rams last month. He was originally drafted by the Packers in 2011, being named to six Pro Bowls and helping the team to victory in Super Bowl XLV before his time in Green Bay came to a close.

Obviously, the Packers would be thrilled if Gary developed into even a rough approximation of the impact player Matthews was for almost a decade with the green and gold. The University of Michigan product certainly has the physical tools to do so and more, but too often failed to turn his talent into production during his three seasons in Ann Arbor.

“He’s got premier speed off the edge,” general manager Brian Gutekunst said of Gary, per Ryan Wood of Packers News. “He’s able to bend the corner. He plays with length and power. He’s also going to be able to kick inside and rush inside. So I don’t think you can ever have enough of those guys.”

Gary, the consensus top prospect in the high school class of 2016, had just nine and-a-half total sacks at Michigan despite twice being named First-Team All-Big 10. At 6-foot-4, 277 pounds, he showed out at the NFL combine with a 4.58 40-yard dash, 38 inch vertical leap, and 26 bench press reps, a performance that both cemented his status as perhaps the draft’s best overall athlete and sparked more questions about his pedestrian numbers with the Wolverines.