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New Packers TE Tucker Kraft to wear No. 85

Packers third-round pick Tucker Kraft will wear uniform No. 85.

New Green Bay Packers tight end Tucker Kraft will wear No. 85 as a rookie.

Kraft, the team’s third-round pick, wore No. 85 for all four seasons at South Dakota State.

Tucker will take the number from Robert Tonyan, who wore No. 85 for the Packers from 2018 to 2022. He left Green Bay to sign a deal with the Chicago Bears this offseason.

Among the former Packers to wear No. 85: Max McGee, Greg Jennings, Wesley Walls, Corey Bradford and Phil Epps.

First-round pick Lukas Van Ness will wear No. 90, second-round pick Luke Musgrave will wear No. 88 and second-round pick Jayden Reed will (likely?) wear No. 1.

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First round of Chiefs roster cuts due today

NFL roster cuts begin today, with the #Chiefs and the rest of the league having to trim rosters down to 85 players.

The Kansas City Chiefs will begin the painstaking process of trimming their 90-man roster down to 53 players on Tuesday, August 17.

The NFL approved gradual roster cuts this offseason, with a new wave of cuts coming to each Tuesday following preseason games. This first deadline will have the Chiefs and the rest of the league trimming their roster from 90 to 85 players. Following the preseason Week 2 against the Arizona Cardinals, teams will need to trim their roster from 85 to 80 on Tuesday, August 24. The final round of cuts is the biggest, with the teams going from 80 players down to 53 players on Tuesday, August 31.

As of this article posting date, the Chiefs’ offseason roster sits at 90 players and they’ll need to create five roster spots by 4:00 p.m. ET today. They might not resort to simply releasing players either. They can place injured players on injured reserve, but only in select situations. Players sent to the injured reserve list prior to final roster cuts are forbidden from returning from injured reserve during the season.

Ultimately, these gradual cuts will give some veteran and younger players a chance to catch on with other teams. Some teams have already begun to trim their rosters down, but the Chiefs tend to wait until the deadline for transactions like this.

Update: The cuts are in. Find out more here.

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