Tucker Kraft

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• Camp · Aug 23, 2026Aug 23, 2026

  Tucker Kraft Camp Update — August 23: A Team-Drill Touchdown From Love

  Tucker Kraft caught a touchdown from Jordan Love in Wednesday's third-down period against the starting defense — the first competitive team-drill production in his file since the ACL. He sat Friday's game, which reads as the ramp plan holding, not a setback.

• Camp · Aug 16, 2026Aug 17, 2026

  Tucker Kraft Camp Update — August 16: Sitting the Opener Was Always the Plan

  Tucker Kraft sat the preseason opener with no setback reported, which is exactly what a careful ACL ramp looks like in mid-August. The Week One target is intact and still untested.

• 2026 PreviewJun 15, 2026

  Tucker Kraft 2026 Season Preview — an All-Pro pace, then a torn ACL

  Tucker Kraft posted a top-tier per-game rate across eight games before a November ACL tear ended his season, finishing TE21 on just 101.2 half-PPR points. The role was real — Green Bay ran him as a featured tight end — but the 76.5 percent availability mark across his career means health, not talent, is the recurring question around his production.

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  Before he tore his ACL in November, Tucker Kraft was on pace to be an All-Pro — a top-two tight end on a per-game basis. The market is pricing him TE5, betting the knee comes all the way back. The Muffed 2026 preview.

  The 2025 season was eight games of a breakout: 32 catches for 489 yards and six touchdowns, 12-six a game — the number-two tight end per game when he played, though the injury left him at TE21 in total. The signature was a seven-catch, a hundred 43-yard, two-touchdown game against Pittsburgh in Week 8, weeks before the knee. On a per-game basis, he was elite.

  The arc is straight up: four-five a game, eight-one, and then 12-six — a third-year leap into the position's top tier, cut short.

  What the data says, both sides honestly: the per-game rate is genuinely exciting, but two things make it hard to bank. First, it's eight games. Second, his touchdown share — 30 percent, six scores in eight games — is a top-quartile rate that regresses; the 12-six was partly touchdown-fueled. So the TE2 rate is real talent but not a clean repeat even at full health.

  The situation, per the reports, is the swing — and June's reporting was all arrows up, with one procedural catch: Kraft says he's "doing better than expected... quad looks great, swelling is minimal to none," he expects to play Week One — September thirteenth at Minnesota — with no pitch count, and the GM went further than the coaches: "a little bit ahead of schedule." The catch: he expects to open training camp on the physically-unable-to-perform list, so the first proof point is when he comes off it. LaFleur still calls him "a big focal point of our offense." The talent and the role are there; the knee is the question, and ACL returns aren't always linear.

  The price: pick 73, the fifth tight end. Verdict: WATCHLIST — an ascending top-tier talent with a defined role, priced a notch below his per-game rate, with a torn ACL and a touchdown-inflated sample as the two big unknowns. The counter for him: if the knee is right, a focal-point tight end at TE5 is a value, and the reports are glowing. Against: you're paying a near-starter price on an eight-game sample and a recovering knee. The talent says buy; the uncertainty says watch.

  September watch: the knee — the PUP exit first, then snap count and explosiveness; and the touchdown rate, where six in eight games won't hold its pace. If he's one of your guys, this show exists for your whole roster — every player, every week, all season.

• 2025 ReviewMay 11, 2026

  Tucker Kraft 2025 Season in Review

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  Tucker Kraft finished 2025 as the number 24 tight end in total PPR scoring — and the number 4 tight end in PPR per game. Read those two ranks together and you've got his whole fantasy year in one sentence: when he played, he was elite; he just didn't play enough. Kraft suited up for only 8 games before his season ended, and in that window he was a featured red-zone weapon in one of the best passing offenses in football. Six touchdowns in eight games screams touchdown-dependent — but the volume of high-leverage looks wasn't a fluke. This was a breakout cut short, not a hot streak fading.

  Now let's dig into the numbers. Kraft averaged 14.7 PPR points per game across his 8 appearances on 32 catches for 489 yards and 6 touchdowns on 44 targets — a 73 percent catch rate on a healthy five-and-a-half targets per game. The efficiency was real: 6 scores on 44 targets means he found the end zone on roughly 1 in every 7 balls thrown his way, inside a Green Bay passing attack that finished 3rd in the league in total passing expected points added at plus 118.8. On consistency, his weekly scores tell a boom-anchored-by-touchdowns story — 33.3 against the Steelers, 24.4 against the Commanders, 16.8 in Arizona, but also a 4.0 against Carolina, a 5.9 in Cleveland, and a 9.9 in the opener. When he found the end zone, he was a league-winner. When he didn't, he floored in single digits. Classic touchdown-dependent tight end. And with Jordan Love throwing 23 touchdowns on the year and Green Bay converting 48.5 percent of their third downs — second in the entire league — Kraft was plugged into the exact kind of offense that feeds tight end scoring.

  The play that captures the season best came in Pittsburgh in Week 8. Third and 4, ball at the Steelers' 24, fourth quarter, Green Bay clinging to a 22-19 lead. Love hit Kraft on a short middle route 6 yards downfield, and Kraft turned it into 18 yards after the catch for a 24-yard touchdown that broke the game open in a 35-25 win. Third down, red-zone-adjacent, high leverage, yards after catch doing the heavy lifting — that's the Tucker Kraft 2025 season in miniature. He was the guy Love looked for when the offense needed a chunk and a score, and he was converting at a rate that made him a top-five per-game tight end before his year ended.