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Kraft Returns and Camp Sorting · The Rand Report: Sports

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  Tucker Kraft is back! Nearly nine months after
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  the ACL tear, the Packers activated him off the
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  PUP list. He's on the field. This is the Rand
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  Report. I'm Jim Rand. Camp is starting to tell
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  the truth. First, Kraft and the Packers health
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  picture. Kraft is one of the better tight ends
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  in the league when healthy. Getting him back
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  this early is real progress for Green Bay. Micah
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  Parsons is still months away. The earliest realistic
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  return is late September if everything stays
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  clean. That's the split. One key piece is returning.
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  The best defensive player on the roster is still
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  on the shelf. Every team talks about depth and
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  patience in July. By the second week of camp,
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  the real inventory starts showing up. Second,
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  the early chemistry that actually matters. In
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  Buffalo, Josh Allen and DJ Moore already look
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  connected. Moore is making the contested catches
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  and the deep ones. Allen is finding him. That's
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  not a highlight for the internet. That's a relationship
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  forming in real time. In Pittsburgh, Asante Samuel
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  Jr. is one of the early standouts. He's making
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  plays that force the coaches to notice. Camp
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  is full of he looks explosive quotes. Most of
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  them disappear by the third week. The ones that
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  stick are the ones where the quarterback and
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  the receiver are already speaking the same language,
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  or the defender is winning every rep. That's
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  the difference between noise and signal. Third,
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  the Mets just started selling. AJ Minter is gone
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  to the Twins. Clear signal, the Mets are open
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  for business ahead of Monday's deadline. Every
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  non -contender eventually reaches this point.
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  Some fight it for weeks with soft language about
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  still competing. Others just start moving pieces.
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  The ones who move first usually get better returns.
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  Deadline is Monday at 6pm Eastern. The next 72
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  hours will separate the teams that are actually
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  trying to win from the ones still telling themselves
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  a story. Here's the bottom line. Craft is back
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  and that helps Green Bay. Parsons is still waiting
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  and that hurts them. Alan and more are already
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  building something real and buffalo the Mets
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  just admitted what the standings already said
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  Watch who returns watch who separates watch who
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  actually sells everything else is just volume.
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  This has been the Rand report. I'm Jim Rand.
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