Tucker Kraft injury update: Packers TE sets return date from torn ACL

by: Brian Jones 10 hours ago brianjones_93

Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft hopes that he will be 100 percent healthy when the 2026 NFL season kicks off. While speaking to reporters on Monday, Kraft said he wants to be fully recovered from his torn ACL in September.

“Hopefully bulletproof by then,” Kraft said, via Pete Dougherty of the  Green Bay Press-Gazette (via Myles Simmons of Pro Football Talk ). “So I already feel pretty good. My progress so far has been great. Some would say even ahead of schedule. So, not trying to blow anything out of proportion. I’m only not even 10 weeks in yet, but it’s feeling good so far.”

Tucker Kraft suffered the injury during the Packers’ Week 9 matchup against the Carolina Panthers. He was in the middle of having a Pro Bowl-type season, catching 32 passes for 489 yards and six touchdowns through eight games.

After showing what he can do in 2025, Kraft is ready to take his game to the next level. “I was able to prove time and time again what I could do with three catches, four catches, five catches,” Kraft said, “showing, like in that Pittsburgh game, I had 140-something yards, with like 90 percent of that coming from the yards after the catch.

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