Kyle Pitts and Ja'Marr Chase

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(10-27-2021, 01:16 PM)grampahol Wrote: I haven't paid a whole lot of attention to Pitts, but how well does he block? A great blocking TE who can catch and run well (Uzo) is better than a one dimensional TE who only catches well..  Right now in my opinion CJ is playing as good as we could have possibly hoped especially after the injury he had last year.. Chase it taking the top off defenses every game and any team not double teaming him is in for problems, but there's still Tee and Tyler when they do double him not to mention CJ.

I respectfully disagree that a great blocking TE that can catch is better than an elite pass catching TE, but to each their own.
When people talk about the great TEs of the past 1-2 decades, it's been all elite pass catching TEs - Gates, Gonzalez, Gronk, Graham, Kelce, and recently Kittle and Waller.

As for your question, I haven't watched the ATL games close enough, but here are his PFF blocking grades:
Pass block - 68.5 (Uzomah's is 49.8 by comparison)
Run block - 54.8 (Uzomah's is 61.5 by comparison)

Pitts has been used to block on 88 out of 309 offensive snaps.
Comparatively, Uzomah has been used to block on 147 out of 330 offensive snaps.