King missed Richmond's opening round clash with Carlton as he was serving the one-match ban he received for striking in round 22 last year.
"Jake will be every chance," Tigers coach Damien Hardwick said on Wednesday. "He's a guy I like to have in the side.
"He brings everything we are about as a footy club. He's tough, he's resilient, he's competitive - all those sorts of things we look for in footy players."
Either Will Thursfield or Dylan Grimes will come into the team to replace fellow defender Alex Rance, who was given a three-match suspension for his high bump on Carlton's Jarrad Waite.
Hardwick says the Tigers never seriously considered appealing the Rance's penalty.
"We don't debate that there was contact made," he said. "It was a clash of heads, so we just accepted the penalty.
"The match review panel do as good a job as they can and they made their decision.
"We're disappointed. He's been in really good form, Alex. It's a real shame for the kid.
"He's starting to carve a career at full-back, so he'll take his three weeks on the sidelines and we'll move on."
Many Richmond supporters were surprised to see Tuck left out of the team that lost to the Blues, and it appears he won't be recalled to play the Saints.
"He's in the squad," Hardwick said. "He's thereabouts. He had a reasonable game at Coburg last week. It's just whether we can fit him in.
"We've got Foley, Martin, Cotchin - those sorts of players. There's only a certain amount of midfielders that we can play in those sorts of positions.
"So Shane is a possibility, but whether he comes in or not, we'll have to wait and see."
Key backman Kelvin Moore's hip problem is likely to sideline him for another month.
"He is getting better," Hardwick said. "He's probably a couple of weeks away - maybe three or four.
"He's probably our best defender, so we look forward to getting him back ASAP."
Jake King is a $237,800 midfielder in the Toyota AFL Dream Team competition
