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[shanebo]

I love Kyle Pitts too, and I think he'll probably be a great NFL player. But he's a TE, and it's a fact that a TE simply cannot exceed the production of a comparable WR. For example, Travis Kelce is probably the best TE in the NFL today, but he's never led the league in receiving yards (2nd in 2020, his best year, and 4th in 2019 - 500 yds behind Michael Thomas) or TDs. In fact, no TE has ever led the league in receiving yards or TDs, to my knowledge. Now that's nothing to sniff at -- I'd love to have Kelce on my team -- but the best WR from the year Kelce was drafted (2013) is DeAndre Hopkins, and I'd rather have Hopkins on my team than Kelce (he has 2,000 more yards and 12 more TDs). Same with Gronk. He was drafted the same year as Antonio Brown, who outperformed him in every category. And as good as George Kittle is, JuJu, Godwin, and arguably Golliday all have been better.

So unless you really think Pitts will become a generational TE -- and by "generational" I mean better than Kelce, Gronk and Kittle, guys who have in the last decade revolutionized the TE position -- you're statistically better off picking the best WR in a draft class (or the guy who you believe will be the best WR in a draft class, lol ...) if you're looking for an offensive weapon. So I'd go Sewell, Chase, Pitts, in that order.

Admittedly, pre-draft only Hopkins was widely considered to be the best WR available in his respective year, but Kelce, Gronk, and Kittle were not considered to be the best TEs in their draft classes either -- recall we picked Gresham before Gronk and Eifert before Kelce, and Kittle wasn't taken until Rd. 5.