The Green Bay Packers may have fell short this year in the playoffs, but they have plenty of reason to be optimistic about the future. This young Jordan Love-led team has made the playoffs in back to back seasons and improved their win total from 2023 to 2024.
Going into 2025, one name is expected to get a massive role change to try to get the team back into Super Bowl contention.
“All Three Phases” Packers Star Getting Massive Role Change In 2025
Tucker Kraft’s rookie season in 2023 gave the Packers a pretty good idea of the type of playmaker they were getting:
In doing so, the 6-foot-5, 259-pound tight end joined an exclusive company at his position, as just one of four NFL tight ends to register 80-plus catches, 1,000-plus receiving yards, nine-plus touchdowns and carry a 13.0-yards per catch average through his first two seasons.
The other three? Rob Gronkowski (2010-11), Mark Andrews (2018-19) and Hunter Henry (2016-17), a trio that’s combined for eight Pro Bowls and five first-time AP All-Pro teams.
“He’s obviously had a lot of opportunity (but) just how he goes about it, it doesn’t surprise me that it manifests itself on the field,” said Packers tight ends coach John Dunn of Kraft.
“He wants to be great in every area. We talk about all three phases, and all three are critically important for our position. You’re talking about run blocking, you’re talking about pass blocking, you’re talking about obviously running routes and … ball production.”
Here is a look at Kraft’s stats in 2024:
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| Date | Team | Opp | Result | Tgt | Rec | Yds | TD | Lng | Att | Yds | TD | Lng | Touch | YScm | RRTD | Fmb | ||||||
| 2025-01-12 | GNB | @ | PHI | L 10-22 | 5 | 5 | 26 | 5.2 | 0 | 12 | 100.0% | 5.2 | 2 | 10 | 0 | 8 | 5.0 | 7 | 5.1 | 36 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025-01-05 | GNB | CHI | L 22-24 | 7 | 4 | 36 | 9.0 | 0 | 20 | 57.1% | 5.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 9.0 | 36 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2024-12-29 | GNB | @ | MIN | L 25-27 | 3 | 2 | 53 | 26.5 | 0 | 35 | 66.7% | 17.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 26.5 | 53 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-12-23 | GNB | NOR | W 34-0 | 4 | 3 | 63 | 21.0 | 0 | 30 | 75.0% | 15.8 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | 4 | 16.3 | 65 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-12-15 | GNB | @ | SEA | W 30-13 | 2 | 2 | 34 | 17.0 | 0 | 26 | 100.0% | 17.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 17.0 | 34 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-12-05 | GNB | @ | DET | L 31-34 | 5 | 3 | 41 | 13.7 | 1 | 21 | 60.0% | 8.2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13.7 | 41 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024-11-28 | GNB | MIA | W 30-17 | 7 | 6 | 78 | 13.0 | 0 | 17 | 85.7% | 11.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 13.0 | 78 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2024-11-24 | GNB | SFO | W 38-10 | 2 | 2 | 26 | 13.0 | 1 | 15 | 100.0% | 13.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 13.0 | 26 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2024-11-17 | GNB | @ | CHI | W 20-19 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2024-11-03 | GNB | DET | L 14-24 | 6 | 4 | 34 | 8.5 | 0 | 13 | 66.7% | 5.7 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | 5 | 7.2 | 36 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-10-27 | GNB | @ | JAX | W 30-27 | 3 | 3 | 78 | 26.0 | 1 | 67 | 100.0% | 26.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 26.0 | 78 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2024-10-20 | GNB | HOU | W 24-22 | 4 | 3 | 33 | 11.0 | 1 | 14 | 75.0% | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 11.0 | 33 | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2024-10-13 | GNB | ARI | W 34-13 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 6.5 | 0 | 8 | 50.0% | 3.3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 2.0 | 3 | 5.0 | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-10-06 | GNB | @ | LAR | W 24-19 | 5 | 4 | 88 | 22.0 | 2 | 66 | 80.0% | 17.6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 22.0 | 88 | 2 | 0 | |
| 2024-09-29 | GNB | MIN | L 29-31 | 9 | 6 | 53 | 8.8 | 1 | 21 | 66.7% | 5.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 8.8 | 53 | 1 | 1 | ||
| 2024-09-22 | GNB | @ | TEN | W 30-14 | 3 | 2 | 24 | 12.0 | 0 | 21 | 66.7% | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 12.0 | 24 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2024-09-15 | GNB | IND | W 16-10 | 2 | 2 | 16 | 8.0 | 0 | 17 | 100.0% | 8.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8.0 | 16 | 0 | 0 | ||
| 2024-09-06 | GNB | @ | PHI | L 29-34 | 3 | 2 | 37 | 18.5 | 0 | 29 | 66.7% | 12.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 18.5 | 37 | 0 | 0 | |
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