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Watch: Sights and Sounds from Sunday at Training Camp

Get a taste of Sunday’s Green Bay Packers training camp practice with tight end, receiver and running back drills.

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GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers’ tight ends are a focal point in the video associated with this story.

The Packers are thin at tight end after veteran Tyler Davis suffered a torn ACL at Cincinnati on Friday night. While Green Bay has four tight ends on the roster, Luke Musgrave and Tucker Kraft are rookies, Austin Allen went undrafted last year and hasn’t played in a game, and Josiah Deguara is more of a fullback than a traditional tight end.

At Sunday’s practice, Dre Miller went through individual drills at tight end. Miller played receiver at Maine, transitioned to tight end with the Giants, moved back to receiver upon signing with the Packers and, at least for a day, was back to tight end.

“That’s the biggest thing right now,” Miller said of his weight in an interview with Packer Central recently. “Last year, I was obviously putting the weight on to become a tight end and be able to block better in the trenches. Now, I’m a little on the heavier side for a receiver but I’ve been a receiver since sixth grade so that’s my natural position, that’s what I’ve been doing it. Getting back into that is going to be a good thing, obviously.”

Presumably adding a tight end will be on general manager Brian Gutekunst’s radar.

“Everything’s on the table,” coach Matt LaFleur said before Sunday’s practice. “You’re always making adjustments as a coach in terms of who you have from a personnel standpoint. That’s just the nature of this game, and you’ve got to try to do your best to put your best product out there. If that’s how we have to proceed, then we’ll adjust that way.”

Key Dates for Green Bay Packers

Emanuel Wilson goes through drills on Sunday. (Photo by Bill Huber/Packer Central)
Emanuel Wilson goes through drills on Sunday. (Photo by Bill Huber/Packer Central)

Monday, Aug 14: Practice, 10:30 a.m.

Wednesday, Aug. 16: Joint practice vs. New England Patriots, 10:30 a.m.

Thursday, Aug. 17: Joint practice vs. New England Patriots, 10:30 a.m.

Saturday, Aug. 19: Preseason No. 2 vs. New England Patriots

Tuesday, Aug. 22: Practice, TBA

Wednesday, Aug. 23: Practice, TBA (Final practice open to fans)

Saturday, Aug. 26: Preseason No. 3 vs. Seattle Seahawks

Tuesday, Aug. 29: Roster cuts from 90 players to 53

Sunday, Sept. 10: Week 1 at Chicago Bears

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Our first 53-man Packers roster projection

Davis tears ACL, leaving hole at tight end

Emanuel Wilson has night of his life

Quarterbacks show bounce-back ability

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Bill Huber
BILL HUBER

Bill Huber, who has covered the Green Bay Packers since 2008, is the publisher of Packers On SI, a Sports Illustrated channel. E-mail: packwriter2002@yahoo.com History: Huber took over Packer Central in August 2019. Twitter: https://twitter.com/BillHuberNFL Background: Huber graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, where he played on the football team, in 1995. He worked in newspapers in Reedsburg, Wisconsin Dells and Shawano before working at The Green Bay News-Chronicle and Green Bay Press-Gazette from 1998 through 2008. With The News-Chronicle, he won several awards for his commentaries and page design. In 2008, he took over as editor of Packer Report Magazine, which was founded by Hall of Fame linebacker Ray Nitschke, and PackerReport.com. In 2019, he took over the new Sports Illustrated site Packer Central, which he has grown into one of the largest sites in the Sports Illustrated Media Group.

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