Big Money for Small-Town Hero: Tucker Kraft Cashes In, Signs Four-Year Extension With Packers

The South Dakota standout has blossomed into one of the league’s best up-and-coming tight ends, and he’s being paid like it.

GREEN BAY, Wis. — Whether he had a long-term contract extension signed, sealed, and delivered by the Green Bay Packers by the Sept. 13 opener was never a factor for Tucker Kraft.

It’s also something the 25-year-old tight end will no longer have to worry about, not that he ever was to begin with.

Kraft and the Packers agreed to a four-year extension worth …