Jordan Schultz dropped the news that should make every Packers fan and dynasty nerd sit up: Tucker Kraft is heading into the last year of his contract, and Green Bay is actively working to get an extension in place. It's not a rumor born out of nowhere, either. Kraft was in the middle of a legitimate breakout before a torn ACL ended his 2025 season, and the front office clearly doesn't want to let a rising tight end play out a contract year with nothing on paper.
Jordan Schultz was first to report the Packers' plan to extend Kraft before his contract year plays out.
The #Packers have TE Tucker Kraft entering the final year of his deal and also hope to get something done with him.
Before the injury, Kraft had made himself impossible to ignore. He was putting up 32 catches for 489 yards and 6 touchdowns and pacing every tight end in the league in yards per catch at 15.3, numbers that had him mentioned in the same breath as the league's top pass-catching tight ends. His career game came in Week 8 against the Steelers, a 7-catch, 143-yard, 2-touchdown outburst that made clear the Packers had found a real weapon at a position that's been a black hole in Green Bay for years.
Then Week 9 against Carolina happened, and the torn ACL wiped out the rest of his season right as he was building an MVP-caliber case at the position. That's exactly why this extension conversation carries so much weight right now — the Packers have to bet on the medical reports and the tape from before the injury, not just a full healthy season, and they still seem convinced it's worth paying up.
SleeperNFL flagged the fantasy and dynasty stakes of locking Kraft up long-term at a thin tight end position.
Green Bay's recent offseason gives this some extra context. The Packers already went to the well for Jayden Reed and Christian Watson with big-money extensions, and multiple reports have Kraft next in line, following the team's usual blueprint of a hefty signing bonus up front paired with lighter long-term guarantees. If it gets done, it wouldn't just be a nice gesture — it would lock in one of the few genuine difference-makers at tight end for years, at a position where teams routinely overpay for far less proven production.
For dynasty and fantasy managers, this is about as clean a signal as it gets: a team investing in its own guy before he ever tests the market usually means that guy is part of the plan. If Kraft comes back healthy in 2026 and the extension gets signed before September, expect his stock — real and fantasy — to keep climbing right alongside it.