The Packers signed long snapper Cal Adomitis and wide receiver Kaden Prather on Friday, the team announced. Prather’s agreement was previously reported.
In corresponding moves, the Packers released kicker Lenny Krieg and waived/injured wide receiver Brenden Rice.
Adomitis is a fifth-year player from the University of Pittsburgh who originally signed as an undrafted free agent with the Bengals in 2022. He played 49 regular-season games and three postseason contests in three seasons in Cincinnati.
He was released toward the end of training camp last season.
Adomitis ended up playing nine games for the Eagles last season before finishing the season on the Steelers’ practice squad.
Prather entered the NFL as a seventh-round pick of the Bills in 2025 but was waived/injured at the end of training camp. He helped the Louisville Kings win the UFL championship this spring.
Krieg was signed earlier this week to compete with sixth-round pick Trey Smack for the kicking job.
Rice, who was claimed off waivers from the Raiders in May, was on the non-football injury list. The son of Hall of Famer Jerry Rice joined Las Vegas’ practice squad late last season after also spending time on the practice squads of the Seahawks and Patriots.
He was with the Chargers in training camp last summer.
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The Packers took tight end Tucker Kraft off the PUP list on Friday and he will start being phased into the team’s practices over the near future.
Kraft has been rehabbing a torn ACL and said on Friday that doctors told him his knee looks “spectacular,” which leaves him feeling like there’s no reason not to dive into the practice work needed to get him ready for Week 1. Kraft’s plans for ramping up his work do not include holding anything back while waiting for a contract extension to get hammered out with the team.
“Absolutely. I understand other peoples’ worries in that facet,” Kraft said, via Ryan Wood of PackersNews.com. “However, I myself, I’m just worried about getting back to who I was pre-injury.”
If Kraft weren’t coming off an injury, he might opt for a different approach to this summer’s practices but getting back from an ACL requires him to go full speed ahead right out of the gate.
Earlier this week, Packers tight end Tucker Kraft said he was expecting to begin practicing “very soon.”
That day has come.
Head coach Matt LaFleur said in his press conference that Kraft has been activated off the physically unable to perform list and is set to practice on Friday.
Kraft tore the ACL in his right knee in early November.
The tight end will begin practicing on a limited basis, as LaFleur said Kraft won’t participate in team drills on Friday.
“[W]e’re just going to kind of get him back ingrained into the process, into individual,” LaFleur said. “What’s great is when they do come off PUP, now he can partake in some of the walk-through periods, especially that we do in the evenings. So, just to get him back hearing the call, lining up, and then just going through that.”
With Kraft coming off of the PUP list before the end of July, his chances of playing Week 1 are rising.
Kraft caught 32 passes for 489 yards and six touchdowns in the eight games last season before his injury.
Wide receiver Kaden Prather is going from the UFL to the NFL.
Prather’s agent told NFL Media that his client is signing with the Packers. The NFL’s daily transaction report shows that Prather tried out for the team on Thursday.
Prather was a Bills seventh-round pick out of Maryland in 2025, but he was waived off of injured reserve ahead of the start of the regular season. He moved on to Louisville in the UFL and contributed nine catches for 148 yards to the league champions.
The Packers also worked out long snapper Cal Adomitis, wide receiver Elijhah Badger, tight end McCallan Castles, wide receiver Elijah Cooks, long snapper John Ferlmann, tight end Brandon Frazier, long snapper Brent Matiscik, wide receiver Titus Mokiao-Atimalala, and tight end Briley Moore.
Running back Ahman Green, a four-time Pro Bowler who played 12 years in the NFL, has disclosed that he has been diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease.
Green revealed the situation during a podcast appearance with Tyler Dunne of GoLongTD.com.
“Last year, I got diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s,” Green told Dunne, via Jason Owens of Yahoo Sports. “I had a little bit of the feet twitching when I’m in my sleep and stuff like that. . . . I knew something was going on long before that. I just got a hold of some doctors that I was able to get in contact with. Get the diagnostics, get the testing. And finally got it tested last — it was January of 2025.”
He waited to go public until he informed his family of the situation.
A third-round pick of the Seahawks in 1998, Green spent two years in Seattle, seven in Green Bay, and two in Houston before capping his career with a return to Green Bay.
He made it to the Pro Bowl from 2001 through 2004 as a Packer, with a career-high 1,883 rushing yards in 2003. He finished with 9,205 rushing yards.
Because he retired before 2014, Green’s diagnosis makes him eligible for compensation under the concussion settlement fund.
The Packers made three moves on Wednesday.
They activated left guard Aaron Banks and defensive tackle Nazir Stackhouse from the active/physically unable to perform list. The team also placed wide receiver Brenden Rice on the non-football injury list.
Banks’ stay on PUP did not last long as he passed his physical.
He appeared in 15 games last season, starting 14, despite dealing with a back injury in training camp and ankle problems and a stinger last season.
The Packers claimed Rice off waivers from the Raiders in May. The son of Hall of Famer Jerry Rice joined Las Vegas’ practice squad late last season after also spending time on the practice squads of the Seahawks and Patriots.
He was with the Chargers in training camp last summer.
Packers General Manager Brian Gutekunst said earlier Wednesday that tight end Tucker Kraft will return “sooner rather than later.” Kraft, who is on the active/physically unable to perform list, echoed that later Wednesday.
Kraft said he expects to begin practicing “very soon,” Ryan Wood of PackersNews.com reports.
Kraft tore the ACL in his right knee in a Nov. 2 game against the Panthers. He underwent surgery later that month.
The season opener on Sept. 13 is still 46 days away, which is why Gutekunst says Kraft’s participation in Week 1 is “very much a possibility.”
Kraft caught 32 passes for 489 yards and six touchdowns in the eight games last season before his injury.
Packers edge rusher Micah Parsons is making good progress in his rehab from a torn ACL, but it continues to sound like he will not be ready to play at the start of the season.
While General Manager Brian Gutekunst told reporters that he’s open to the possibility of Parsons coming off the active/physically unable to perform list before the end of training camp, it doesn’t seem like that’s going to happen.
“Yeah, I’d like to have enough flexibility to leave the door open. But that would be unlikely, just from a timing perspective,” Gutekunst said in his Wednesday press conference. “We’ve invested a lot in him, so we want to make sure he’s ready to go before we even think about putting him out there.”
That being said, Parsons has made plenty of progress since suffering the injury in December.
“I may have mentioned it before, but he’s a little bit of a genetic freak, so things come pretty easy to him,” Gutekunst said. “Again, he’s still, obviously, got a long ways to go. These are major injuries, so as you go through these things and how hard they have to work to get back, there’s always going to be little setbacks here and there. But he’s doing great right now.”
Parsons registered 12.5 sacks with 12 tackles for loss and 27 quarterback hits in 14 games last season, his first with the Packers.
Packers tight end Tucker Kraft may have a couple of positive developments coming to him in his near future.
General Manager Brian Gutekunst told reporters on Wednesday that Kraft, who is returning from a torn ACL, playing Week 1 is “very much a possibility.” And Gutekunst noted that he’s hopeful the team and Kraft can reach an agreement on a new contract before the season.
On the injury, Kraft is currently on the active/physically unable to perform list after suffering his torn ACL in early November. But the tight end has been making significant progress in his rehab.
“In fact, I anticipate him being out there sooner rather than later,” Gutekunst said in his press conference. “The more work he can get with Jordan [Love] in particular — even when he’s not ready for the team [drills] part of it — the more individual work he can get done with Jordan is important for him as he gets into the season. So, we’ve had a lot of discussions about that and the timing of that.
“Obviously, we want to be protective. He’s coming off a major injury and he’s still at about that eight-and-a-half-month mark. But by the way he looks, you’d think he’s ready to go. When you see him out there, it’s a little bit like Christian [Watson], they look really, really good early. But there’s a lot of science behind the nine-month mark. So, we’ll be very cautious as we head into it.”
As for Kraft’s contract, Gutekunst confirmed there have been discussions on an extension. The tight end — a third-round pick in 2023 — is headed into the last year of his rookie deal.
“Certainly, I think for both us and him, it’s in the best interest to try to get something done,” Gutekunst said. “But these things take time. We’ve gone through a bunch of extensions this summer, kind of knowing this was going to be the one right about now.
“We have a little bit of time because he’s just not there yet. But I would expect, hopefully, that would get done. But you never know how they’re going to go.”
Kraft was in the midst of a breakout season when he suffered his injury last year, having caught 32 passes for 489 yards with six touchdowns in eight games. He had 50 receptions for 707 yards with seven TDs through 17 games in 2024.
Micah Parsons was not part of the initial batch of Packers players to land on the teams physically unable to perform list, but word was that the move was coming on Tuesday and it is now official.
The NFL’s daily transaction report shows that the defensive end has been moved to the list along with offensive tackle Brant Banks, long snapper Matt Orzech, defensive end Jordon Riley, and defensive tackle Nazir Stackhouse. The Packers also signed kicker Lenny Krieg and tight end Thomas Yassmin. Defensive tackle Dante Barnett and kicker Lucas Havrisik were waived to round out the day’s moves.
Parsons is not expected to be ready to return from his torn ACL until October at the earliest. He can move to the reserve version of the PUP list at the cut to 53 players, which would keep him out at least four games.
The Packers placed six other players on injury lists Monday and all of the players can be activated at any point during training camp.
