{"id":706184,"date":"2026-06-15T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706184\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:27:08","slug":"packers-sign-te-luke-lachey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/706184\/","title":{"rendered":"Packers sign TE Luke Lachey\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Green Bay Packers signed TE Luke Lachey and released WR Jakobie Keeney-James. The transactions were announced Monday by General Manager Brian Gutekunst.<\/p>\n<p>(luh-SHAY) Lachey (6-6, 250) was originally selected by the Houston Texans in the seventh round (No. 255 overall) of the 2025 NFL Draft. He spent his entire rookie season on the Texans&#8217; practice squad before being released on May 11. Lachey played in 42 games with 31 starts for Iowa, was named a permanent team captain and was one of Iowa&#8217;s Comeback Players of the Year his senior season. He will wear No. 86 for Green Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Green Bay Packers signed TE Luke Lachey and released WR Jakobie Keeney-James. The transactions were announced Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":706185,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[11977,4718,13041,26061,26062,349,99],"class_list":["post-706184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-homepage-cp","tag-news-all-news","tag-news-national-feature","tag-news-press-releases","tag-news-transactions","tag-nfl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706184","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=706184"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/706184\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/706185"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=706184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=706184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=706184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}