Tucker Kraft's potential snap count creates fantasy risk
Yahoo Sports fantasy analysts Josh Norris and Hayden Winks discuss how concerned fantasy managers should be with Green Bay Packers TE Tucker Kraft's recovery from an ACL injury and likely snap count to start the season. Check out the full conversation on "Yahoo Fantasy Football with Josh and Hayden" - and subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , YouTube or wherever you listen .
Video Transcript
Okay.
We have Tucker Kraft up next, and it's been an interesting month for Tucker Kraft coming off a gruesome injury last year.
It sounds like he's going to play in week one, which is fantastic.
He even made comments that, he was gonna be in a bit of a snap count.
Yes.
Hayden, the problem with that is they really don't have a tight end two.
I mean, they just signed Jonnu Smith off the street.
Luke Musgrave has been missing this entire time.
So he is a unicorn in how he almost, gets and, you know, produces his fantasy points.
And I can't wait to see him as a full participant in games.
He said that's gonna be like through like week eight or so, which would be exactly a calendar year.
He tore his ACL, in week nine of last year.
So I agree he's going to play in week one.
I also agree that he is gonna be on a snap count to some degree as he goes through the first, month or two in the season.
Now, that could be, you know, 60% of snaps instead of 90% of snaps, or it could be even less than that.
So I will say his price tag does make me a little bit nervous because- of that.
Like, if he's coming back from that injury, he's probably not gonna be quite as explosive.
One of my favorite stats is, last year he had 11 point yar- four yards per target.
His ADOT was 4.5 yards per target, so he was adding a ridiculous amount of his yards only after the catch.
That's like impossible to do again.
And, ev- even when you are Tucker Kraft, who's awesome at football, he was gonna regress no matter what.
And I think that the rest of the receiving group is pretty dang good.
So- Yeah I haven't been drafting Tucker Kraft that much.
I've been drafting Laporta over Kraft, and I think a lot of people have that, ranked the opposite way there.
I just think that the first month of the season or so, like could be like a legit ramp-up period.
Now, we have some solutions we'll get to later on, and I think Kraft plus somebody that we'll talk about in a little bit's a good pairing to get you through the season.
But across the whole season, I would take Sam Laporta straight up in fantasy points.
