{"id":123027,"date":"2025-06-12T03:31:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/123027\/"},"modified":"2025-06-12T03:31:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T03:31:15","slug":"jordan-love-taps-emerging-packers-weapon-for-major-2025-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/123027\/","title":{"rendered":"Jordan Love Taps Emerging Packers Weapon For Major 2025 Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jordan Love Taps Emerging Packers Weapon For Major 2025 Role<\/a> originally appeared on Athlon Sports<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Green Bay Packers ranked as a top-10 offense last year in EPA<\/a> per play, per pass, and rush, even though Jordan Love dealt with knee and groin injuries<\/a>. Additionally, the receivers struggled to get open against man coverage and hold onto the ball, which did not help either. Still, the entire group needs to improve significantly if the Packers want a real shot at competing for a Super Bowl in 2025.<\/p>\n

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\u201cTo me all those guys understand, they\u2019re competitive. As we\u2019ve gone through, we have conversations about what we need to improve on,\u201d Packers receiver coach Ryan Mahaffey said<\/a> this offseason.\u00a0“Those guys have an understanding that hey, when my number’s called, I want to put myself in a position to be able to go out and help my team, they’re naturally competitive. They take a lot of ownership in that, and I think we’ve got an intrinsically motivated group.”<\/p>\n

Green Bay should be hopeful their receiving corps can bounce back from a disappointing 2024 season. Still, the passing game could soon have a new top target, as Jordan Love is eager to get his starting tight end more involved.<\/p>\n

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Green Bay Packers TE Tucker Kraft (85) is tackled by Miami Dolphins LB Tyrel Dodson (11) after a short reception\u00a9 Mark Hoffman &sol; Milwaukee Journal Sentinel &sol; USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images<\/p>\n

While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Love mentioned that Tucker Kraft will be a key focus of the offense moving forward.<\/p>\n

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“A big part of going into this season is finding ways to continue getting Tuck the ball. Get him as many touches as we can in a game,” Love said, per the Packers Wire’s Zach Kruse.<\/a> “He’s a dynamic playmaker. That’s going to be a focus.”<\/p>\n

Kraft caught 50 passes for 707 yards and seven touchdowns last season. He played 97% of the snaps in the Packers\u2019 22-10 Wild Card loss to the Philadelphia Eagles, even though it was Luke Musgrave\u2019s fourth game back from injury. He was one of the most reliable playmakers in Green Bay’s offense in 2024, and his workload should only increase going forward.<\/p>\n

The Packers have a sense of urgency<\/a> to compete for a championship in 2025, and for Kraft, that means becoming the best version of himself to help elevate Jordan Love and the rest of the offense. If all goes to plan, he should see plenty of targets and let his talent take care of the rest.<\/p>\n

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Related: Former Packers $21 Million Star Named Potential Replacement For Jaire Alexander<\/a><\/p>\n

This story was originally reported by Athlon Sports<\/a> on Jun 11, 2025, where it first appeared.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jordan Love Taps Emerging Packers Weapon For Major 2025 Role originally appeared on Athlon Sports. The Green Bay…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123028,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[7,41,345,2514,2513,1724,6343,251,4418,6,428,109,14233,28737],"class_list":{"0":"post-123027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-football","9":"tag-green-bay","10":"tag-green-bay-packers","11":"tag-greenbay","12":"tag-greenbaypackers","13":"tag-jordan-love","14":"tag-luke-musgrave","15":"tag-miami-dolphins","16":"tag-milwaukee-journal-sentinel","17":"tag-nfl","18":"tag-packers","19":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","20":"tag-tucker-kraft","21":"tag-tyrel-dodson"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/114668285975511819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}