Don't cheat: Which Bengal had the highest catch% (receptions/targets)

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(06-04-2021, 07:39 AM)SHRacerX Wrote: Good point.  Sample is, after one complete season (his rookie year was mostly injured), a better blocker than either of the other three.  

He's a good blocker. But what good teams nowadays don't deploy a TE who at least has decent pass catching ability?
If your TE on the field is often being kept in as a blocker and/or not much of a threat in the passing game, you're losing a playmaker.
Sample may be one of the best blockers, but he's one of the worst in terms of receiving production.
The Bengals don't even have a TE on the list of Top 32 preseason rankings on PFF - https://www.pff.com/news/nfl-pff-tight-end-rankings-2021-nfl-season

It's pretty bad when you don't even make it above a guy like Blake Jarwin.
Jarwin was a UDFA who had 307-3 in 2018 and 365-3 in 2019 with DAL before only playing a single game last year due to injury.
Jarwin still had a better 2019 than Sample had in 2020.
Not good if a 2nd round pick is less productive as a pass catcher than a UDFA on another team.

And before anyone says Sample was just used as a blocker so much, he had the 15th-most receiving snaps out of all TEs (433).
He had more receiving snaps than Mark Andrews, who put up 701-7 last year.