{"id":357922,"date":"2025-11-05T17:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357922\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T17:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T17:35:12","slug":"5-things-to-know-about-packers-te-josh-whyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/357922\/","title":{"rendered":"5 things to know about Packers TE Josh Whyle"},"content":{"rendered":"

GREEN BAY \u2013 The Packers have a new tight end on their 53-man roster.<\/p>\n

Josh Whyle<\/a> has been promoted from the practice squad to fill Tucker Kraft<\/a>‘s spot on the 53-man roster after Kraft was placed on injured reserve due to the season-ending knee injury he sustained Sunday against Carolina.<\/p>\n

A 6-foot-7, 248-pound tight end, Whyle caught 37 passes for 342 yards (9.2 avg.) and two touchdowns in 28 regular-season games over two seasons with the Tennessee Titans.<\/p>\n

Here are five things to know about the third-year veteran:<\/p>\n

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  1. Whyle was draft classmates with Tucker Kraft and Luke Musgrave<\/a>.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Whyle was the first tight end to come off the board on Day 3 of the 2023 NFL Draft when the Titans selected him in the fifth round (No. 147 overall).<\/p>\n

    He was the 10th tight end selected in what’s considered one of the deeper tight end draft classes in the modern era. The Packers double-dipped on Day 2 when they selected Musgrave in the second round (No. 42) and Kraft in the third (78).<\/p>\n

    Green Bay hosted Whyle on a pre-draft visit. He had 8.94 relative-athletic score due in part to his prototypical size and speed (4.69 40 and 1.58 10-yard split) for the position.<\/p>\n

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    1. He’s a Cincinnati kid who stayed home.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Whyle had offers from more than 30 NCAA Football Bowl Subdivision programs before choosing to stay home and play for the Bearcats in 2018.<\/p>\n

      He was a three-time All-AAC selection who set the Bearcats’ school record for most career receiving touchdowns by a tight end with 15 scoring grabs, breaking Brent Celek’s mark.<\/p>\n

      In total, Whyle appeared in 52 games with 20 starts and tallied 88 receptions for 1,062 yards over five seasons at Cincinnati (2018-22). All but two of his catches came in his final three seasons.<\/p>\n

      Whyle captured All-AAC first-team accolades as a senior in 2022 after catching a career-high 32 passes for 326 yards and three TDs.<\/p>\n

      He was college teammates with former Packers third-round pick Josiah Deguara and 2025 seventh-round selection John Williams<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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      1. Whyle’s best NFL performance came against Green Bay.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        He saw action in all 17 regular-season games for Tennessee in 2024 with four starts, the first of which actually came against the Packers last September.<\/p>\n

        Playing 25 offensive snaps, Whyle caught four passes for a career-high 43 yards in the Titans’ 30-14 loss.<\/p>\n

        Whyle finished his sophomore campaign with 28 catches for 248 yards and a TD over 345 offensive snaps. He also contributed four tackles on special teams.<\/p>\n

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        1. Derrick Henry threw him his first NFL touchdown.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

          Operating out of a Wildcat formation, the four-time All-Pro running back found Whyle open in the back of the end zone for a 2-yard touchdown pass against Cincinnati on Oct. 10, 2023.<\/p>\n

          It’s one of four touchdown passes Henry has thrown in his decorated career and buoyed a 27-3 victory for the Titans over the Bengals.<\/p>\n

          Coincidentally, Whyle’s only other TD catch in the NFL also came against his hometown team \u2013 a 13-yarder from Mason Rudolph at the end of a 37-27 loss to Cincinnati last December.<\/p>\n

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          1. Whyle enjoyed a decorated prep career.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

            He attended La Salle High School in Cincinnati and helped lead the program to a 50-8 record with three Ohio High School Athletic Association Division II titles.<\/p>\n

            Whyle was a four-star recruit by Scout.com after catching 37 passes for 443 yards and three TDs for the Lancers as a senior. As a junior, he caught 40 passes for 546 yards and six touchdowns to lift the school to its third consecutive state title.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"GREEN BAY \u2013 The Packers have a new tight end on their 53-man roster. Josh Whyle has been…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":357923,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[11822,173672,58654,51440,54418,1232,62,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-357922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nfl","8":"tag-homepage-cp","9":"tag-josh-whyle","10":"tag-news-five-things","11":"tag-news-national-feature","12":"tag-news-stories","13":"tag-nfl","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357922\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}