In Need of Tight End, Packers Working Out Devin Asiasi, Joel Wilson, Nick Eubanks

The Green Bay Packers were short of players at tight end and running back for Monday’s practice. Tuesday’s workouts could add to the depth.

GREEN BAY, Wis. – The Green Bay Packers returned to practice on Monday a bit shorthanded at running back and tight end. The team’s weekly workouts could address those needs.

As reported by NFL insider Aaron Wilson, the Packers on Tuesday will work out three tight ends – including former third-round pick Devin Asiasi – and two running backs.

With Luke Musgrave on injured reserve and Josiah Deguara battling a hip injury that held him out of Thursday’s win at Detroit, the Packers are working out Asiasi, rookie Joel Wilson and journeyman Nick Eubanks.

Asiasi was a third-round pick by New England in 2020; he was selected three spots before Deguara. With the Patriots, he caught two passes for 39 yards and one touchdown in nine games as a rookie. He was a healthy scratch for most of 2021 and finished the year with zero catches in one appearance. In 2022 with Cincinnati, he caught two passes for 5 yards in 12 games.

This year, Asiasi spent training camp with the Bengals and a couple months on the Browns’ practice squad.

At UCLA in 2019, Asiasi had a career season with 44 catches for 641 yards. He had 13 catches of 20-plus yards and just one drop. Before the draft, he measured 6-foot-3 and 257 pounds. With a 4.73 in the 40, his Relative Athletic Score was 6.27.

Wilson went undrafted this year out of Central Michigan, where he caught 75 passes for 802 yards and nine touchdowns during his final two seasons. At pro day, he measured 6-foot-3 5/8 and 242 pounds. He did not run a 40 and had a RAS of 4.32.

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Eubanks went undrafted in 2021 out of Michigan, where his 25 receptions for 243 yards and four touchdowns in 2019 made up the bulk of his four-year production. He has been on a half-dozen teams, including the Colts for training camp this year, but has not played in a regular-season game. At pro day, he measured 6-foot-4 and 245 pounds. With a 4.69 in the 40, his RAS was 6.98.

At Monday’s practice, the Packers had only three tight ends: Tucker Kraft and Ben Sims as traditional tight ends and Henry Pearson in the Deguara-style H-back role

That’s one more tight end than running back at practice. With Aaron Jones out with a knee injury, Emanuel Wilson on injured reserve with a shoulder injury and James Robinson released, the Packers had only Patrick Taylor and practice-squad rookie Ellis Merriweather on the field.

The two running backs are Brenden Knox and John Lovett.

At Marshall, he rushed for 2,852 yards (5.2 average) and 24 touchdowns and added 27 receptions in three seasons. He went undrafted in 2021 – NFL.com projected him as a late-round pick – after measuring 5-foot-10 3/4 and 215 pounds with a 4.67 in the 40 (4.32 RAS).

Knox has had stints with the Cowboys and Chiefs but did not play in game; he played for Seattle in the XFL in 2023.

Lovett – not to be confused with the former Packers fullback/tight end of the same name – rushed for 1,980 yards in four seasons at Baylor before finishing his career with 177 rushing yards and nine catches at Penn State in 2021.

Lovett went undrafted in 2022, when he measured 5-foot-11 1/2 and 215 pounds. With a 4.51 in the 40, his RAS was 4.58. He spent most of his rookie season with the Carolina Panthers and had a short stint with the Steelers during training camp this year. In between, he rushed for 496 yards with the XFL’s Michigan franchise.

The sixth player was former Tennessee and Washington State quarterback Jarrett Guarantano, who threw for 6,478 yards and 39 touchdowns from 2017 through 2021.