Key Highlights
- What’s more, Kraft’s 15.3 yards a catch was uncommonly high for a tight end and highest of any Packers players with at least 10 catches. He also led the team in touchdown receptions with six. After Kraft’s seven catches for 143 yards in the Packers’ win at Pittsburgh, coach Matt LaFleur said he’d be “crazy not to” build his offense around his tight end, who specializes in picking up yards after the catch.
- But then Kraft sustained his knee injury in the third quarter the next week against Carolina. Packers tight end Tucker Kraft (85) stiff-arms Steelers safety Juan Thornhill (22) during their Oct.
- 26 game in Pittsburgh.“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% of that coming from the yards after the catch. AdvertisementAdvertisementAdvertisement“So now, coming off my injury, putting myself in position to get better at things like I was – I was really feeling my man separation coming along – getting the same reps and not making the same mistakes, but continuing to improve upon each opportunity.
- So that moving forward, I do feel like as a tight end, I am the full package, and that I can be anything for this team, just put the ball in my hands.”Kraft then was asked if he meant he’d like to get seven to nine targets a game rather than three to five.“I think I could take a lot of pressure off everybody else if, if that were the case,” he said.
- “I just find the end zone.”Kraft said that along with the torn ACL he had a slight meniscus tear that his surgeon shaved off, plus some LCL damage that didn't require repair.
