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The Lions have reportedly made a deal with the Buccaneers to acquire tight end Timothy Wright, in exchange for rookie kicker Kyle Brindza according to NFL Insider Ian Rapoport and confirmed by both teams. 

Wright had re-joined the Bucs after a season in New England in which he caught 26 passes and six touchdowns. Now, he will join a crowded tight end field in Detroit, where Joseph Fauria, Eric Ebron and Brandon Pettigrew are in the mix. 

The Redskins made roster moves with three injured players, the team announced on Sunday. 

The team waived/injured RB Silas Redd, who was injured in the first preseason game. He can be placed on IR if he's unclaimed. 

Tight ends Logan Paulsen and Niles Paul also went down to injury. Both were placed in injured reserve. 

To help fill the hole the injuries left at tight end, the Redskins signed Ernst Brun.

Redskins tight end Logan Paulsen will have surgery on his right big toe on Monday, coach Jay Gruden announced on Saturday. 

Paulsen suffered the injury at practice on August 6. He'll miss the entire season recovering from the surgery. 

Eagles tight end Zach Ertz will not play in the preseason due to a core muscle injury, but should be ready for Week 1 of the regular season, per the Philadelphia Daily News. 

Ertz underwent surgery Friday to repair the groin issue, but coach Chip Kelly said the injury should be fine by the time the team opens the season on Sept. 13. 

Ertz caught 58 passes for 702 yards and three touchdowns last year. 

Colts tight end Dwayne Allen scored eight touchdowns last season on just 29 receptions, and those numbers could have been even better if he had stayed on the field, something the third-year pro is focusing on as he enters the final year of his contract, per ESPN.com.

"There's no pressure for me to go out and hit any set numbers," Allen said. "My number one focus is to stay healthy so I can help the team. Special teams, three downs on offense. Whatever it takes."

Allen has missed 18 games over the past two seasons, which has limited the time he can work with quarterback Andrew Luck. Allen lost 13 pounds in the offseason to ready himself for what he hopes is a big campaign. 

"I believe I'm a No. 1 tight end that can create mismatches and get open," he said. 

Cowboys tight end James Hanna suffered a sprained knee during the team's loss to the Chargers on Thursday and could wind up being sidelined for up to two weeks, per the Dallas Morning News. 

Hanna, who is the team's reserve tight end, may wind up missing the rest of training camp, which could give rookie Geoff Swaim the chance to make an impression on coaches. 

In three seasons with the Cowboys, Hanna has 22 catches for 207 yards. 

Jets tight end Jace Amaro was forced to leave Thursday's preseason game after suffering a shoulder injury, the team announced. He will not return to the game.

Amaro caught 38 passes for 345 yards and two touchdowns in 14 games last season.

Vikings undrafted rookie tight end MyCole Pruitt proved to be the star of the game in the first game of the NFL season Sunday.

Pruitt caught four passes for 51 yards and a touchdown in a defeat of Pittsburgh in the Hall of Fame Game. He snagged a 34-yard pass from Mike Kafka in the second quarter for the score.

Lions tight end Joseph Fauria left practice Thursday with an unknown injury, MLive.com has reported. He returned to the field without pads and wearing a protective sleeve on his left knee.

"He got a little tweak," Jim Caldwell said. "Maybe it will take him a couple days to get back."

Fauria missed nine games due to injury last season and finished with just six catches for 74 yards.

New Seahawks tight end Jimmy Graham knows that he will have to become more than just a pass-catcher in Seattle's offense in order to succeed, per the Seattle Times. 

Graham, not known for his blocking while a member of the Saints, will be in a two-TE set with the Hawks, forcing him to block, by his estimation, "75 percent" of the time. 

"Now here I'm blocking quite a bit, and I love it," he said. "It's very important to me to be a part of that here. That's about 75 percent of the offense here. When you have a back like that, you want to be in there on those explosive runs, and you want to be a part of that."