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(04-28-2021, 02:21 PM)Au165 Wrote: I forgot about 17 games this year actually, so we will say 16 games because that's a season that every other TE was held against. I said 100-120 which is a range based on where he may go and how they use him. The proration was there to keep it alive if he didn't hit 16 games we'd say the pace of 100 over 14 or 15, but heck since you claimed he couldn't "sniff" 100 in such an arrogant and condescending way then just go the full season (16 game rate of 6.25 a game) and say he won't hit it, where did your confidence go? Weak Leonard.

Because being a little banged up is a part and parcel of playing TE. Here's a list of how many games played by 1st rd rookie TEs the last 20 seasons...

Hockenson: 12
Fant: 16
Hurst: 12
Howard: 14
Engram: 15
Njoku: 16 
Ebron: 15
Eifert: 15
Gresham: 15
Pettigrew: 11
Keller: 16
Olsen: 14
Davis: 10
Lewis: 15
Miller: 16
Winslow: 2
Watson: 1
Clark: 10
Graham: 12
Stevens: 12
Heap: 12

That's 21 1st round TEs in the last 20 years.

Other than Njoku and Keller who were low workload guy (Njoku never played even 60% of the offensive snaps in a single game his rookie season), the only 1st round TEs in the last 20 years to play all 16 games of their rookie seasons are Noah Fant and Heath Miller.

So yeah, TEs just get hurt. It's the position. Pretty much never expect them to play all 16 games (now 17 games) and just be pleasantly surprised if they do.