The Green Bay Packers have met with a few of the top tight ends in the 2023 draft class at the NFL Scouting Combine in Indianapolis.
According to Tex Western of Acme Packing Co., the Packers have a formal meeting scheduled with Oregon State tight end Luke Musgrave.
And according to MJ Hurley, the Packers already had a formal meeting with Utah tight end Dalton Kincaid.
Musgrave and Kincaid are widely viewed as two of the top-five tight ends in the class and two of the best pass-catchers in the draft overall. Both are considered options in the first two rounds of the draft.
The Packers also met with Notre Dame’s Michael Mayer – the top tight end in the minds of some – earlier in the week in Indianapolis.
Meetings between players and team at the combine are common and a small part of the overall pre-draft process, but the Packers are checking in with three top players at an obvious need position.
At tight end, the Packers could lose Robert Tonyan, who averaged only 8.9 yards per catch last year, and Marcedes Lewis, who turns 39 years old in May, this offseason Both are free agents with voided contracts, and Tyler Davis is also unsigned. Only Josiah Deguara remains under contract from the tight ends on the Packers’ 53-man roster last season.
General manager Brian Gutekunst already identified tight end as one of the biggest holes on his roster right now.
Would the Packers use a first-round pick to take a tight end, a notoriously slow-developing position with few real game-changers in the NFL? It’s a fair question. One thing is clear: the Packers need to get better at the position, and finding a player with real upside as a pass-catcher should probably be a priority this offseason. The team is doing its homework on the top of the class at tight end in Indianapolis this week.
