{"id":626772,"date":"2026-05-06T11:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626772\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T11:54:13","slug":"brian-gutekunst-we-expect-micah-parsons-tucker-kraft-back-early-in-the-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626772\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Gutekunst: We expect Micah Parsons, Tucker Kraft back early in the season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Packers lost a pair of key players to injury last season, both of whom may have helped change the team\u2019s ultimate outcome in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Tight end Tucker Kraft suffered a torn ACL in November, prematurely ending what was a breakout season. Then linebacker Micah Parsons suffered a torn ACL in December, cutting off his strong first season with Green Bay.<\/p>\n<p>But both should be back for the majority of 2026, according to General Manager Brian Gutekunst.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019re doing great,\u201d Gutekunst said in a recent interview with SiriusXM NFL Radio. \u201cTuck\u2019s been in here every day, and he\u2019s obviously a little bit ahead of schedule, just because his injury happened earlier than Micah\u2019s did. But Micah\u2019s such a \u2014 he\u2019s a little bit of a freak. So I think some of that has taken over, and he\u2019s doing really well, as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, certainly expect <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SiriusXMNFL\/status\/2051678314285133895?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">both of those guys back early in the season<\/a>. And they\u2019ll be a big part of what we\u2019re doing moving forward.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In eight games last year, Kraft caught 32 passes for 489 yards with six touchdowns.<\/p>\n<p>Parsons tallied 12.5 sacks with 12 tackles for loss and 27 quarterback hits, earning AP first-team All-Pro honors for the third time, despite playing just 14 games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Packers lost a pair of key players to injury last season, both of whom may have helped&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626773,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[349,99],"class_list":["post-626772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}