{"id":383851,"date":"2025-09-20T21:52:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/383851\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T21:52:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T21:52:13","slug":"the-green-bay-packers-get-good-news-as-tucker-kraft-is-expected-to-play-sunday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/383851\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers Get Good News As Tucker Kraft Is Expected To Play Sunday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" top-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/1758405133_386_960x0.jpg\" alt=\"Packers Football\" data-height=\"1082\" data-width=\"1924\" fetchpriority=\"high\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft, who tweaked his knee during practice Thursday, is expected to play against Cleveland on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>The Green Bay Packers, <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robreischel\/2025\/09\/12\/why-the-2025-green-bay-packers-could-be-the-franchises-best-team-since-1996\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robreischel\/2025\/09\/12\/why-the-2025-green-bay-packers-could-be-the-franchises-best-team-since-1996\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"off to a sensational start\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">off to a sensational start<\/a>, got some good news Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>NFL.com reported that Green Bay tight end Tucker Kraft is expected to play Sunday when the <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robreischel\/2025\/09\/17\/why-the-green-bay-packers-must-take-the-cleveland-browns-seriously---as-hard-as-that-might-be\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robreischel\/2025\/09\/17\/why-the-green-bay-packers-must-take-the-cleveland-browns-seriously---as-hard-as-that-might-be\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"visiting Packers face Cleveland at noon.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">visiting Packers face Cleveland at noon.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kraft was listed as questionable on the injury report after tweaking his left knee in  Thursday&#8217;s practice, then missing practice on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, hopefully he\u2019ll be all right, but we&#8217;ll just kind of see how it goes,\u201d Green Bay offensive coordinator Adam Stenavich said of Kraft. \u201cObviously, if anyone goes down that you have as a part of your game plan, you&#8217;ll have to adjust some things. So we&#8217;ll kind of see what happens with the injury report and everything like that, and what the trainers say, and we&#8217;ll make adjustments.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kraft leads the Packers in receptions (eight), receiving yards (140) and receiving touchdowns (two) through two games.<\/p>\n<p>Kraft is coming off an <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robreischel\/2025\/09\/11\/the-good-bad-and-ugly-from-the-green-bay-packers-win-over-the-washington-commanders\/\" data-ga-track=\"InternalLink:https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/robreischel\/2025\/09\/11\/the-good-bad-and-ugly-from-the-green-bay-packers-win-over-the-washington-commanders\/\" target=\"_self\" aria-label=\"enormous game in the Packers\u2019 27-18 Week 2 win over Washington.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">enormous game in the Packers\u2019 27-18 Week 2 win over Washington.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Kraft had a 57-yard reception on Green Bay\u2019s first scoring drive in that contest when he ran vertical and was left uncovered. Kraft had an 8-yard touchdown catch in the fourth quarter that extended Green Bay\u2019s lead to 24-10.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, that boy\u2019s nice,\u201d Packers wideout Romeo Doubs said of Kraft. \u201cMan, he is nice and it\u2019s no surprise. You see it every day. Only difference is it\u2019s gameday now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kraft\u2019s most impressive play, though, might have been a 17-yard reception in the right flat midway through the second quarter. Kraft caught the ball just 5 yards downfield and safety Will Harris had a chance to make an immediate tackle. But Kraft ran Harris over, rumbled to the 7-yard line and two plays later Josh Jacobs had a 2-yard TD run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, he\u2019s a guy that approaches the game the right way,\u201d Packers coach Matt LaFleur said of Kraft. \u201cI can\u2019t say enough great things about Tuck and just the growth that we\u2019ve seen from him from the time he\u2019s gotten here. But it\u2019s not only on the football field, it\u2019s every facet of life, I would say. And he\u2019s a real leader for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And a leader Green Bay figures to have Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft, who tweaked his knee during practice Thursday, is expected to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2072],"tags":[54,7,41,345,2514,2513,1724,6,428,14233],"class_list":{"0":"post-383851","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-green-bay-packers","8":"tag-cleveland-browns","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-green-bay","11":"tag-green-bay-packers","12":"tag-greenbay","13":"tag-greenbaypackers","14":"tag-jordan-love","15":"tag-nfl","16":"tag-packers","17":"tag-tucker-kraft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115238846284524053","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383851","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=383851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}