04-28-2023, 10:14 AM
(04-28-2023, 09:57 AM)KillerGoose Wrote: Pretty much. You have a guy like Pitts who could be great and Hockenson has really been on the upswing. Fant is solid. Otherwise, you're probably going all the way back to 2007 to find Greg Olsen as the last great TE. Vernon Davis the year before him.
Engram has been an absolute dumpster fire until Jacksonville resurrected his career last year (his 6th season). Fant has been meh, but his stats don't scream "thank god we took this guy in the 1st!"
Pitts has under performed compared to the expectations he's had in the league IMO. Still young but that guy was getting mega hype coming into the draft like he's going to change the TE position or something.
Fact of the matter is ---- more often than not 1st round TE's haven't lived up to the hype. The best TE's in the league didn't go in the 1st round -- Kelce 3rd, Andrews 3rd, Kittle 5th, Waller 6th, Goedert 2nd, Schultz 4th etc... I do include Hockenson in that conversation, obviously, and he was a 1st. Other than that the numbers don't look promising for taking a 1st round TE --- and I definitely can't make an argument for taking one in the 1st round this year when it's well documented that this is a very deep TE class.
