OJ Howard

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(10-11-2017, 10:35 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: It sucks that Ross is off to a bad start, but it's not like Howard is doing much to be envious about. 4 catches (on 9 targets) in 4 games.

Could be rookie struggles, but either way we're probably better off with Kroft right now.

There's a difference with someone like Howard and other drafted TEs like Njoku, Engram, etc.
Howard is mainly being used as the blocking TE in TB while Brate as the receiving TE. Plus, Howard is like the 5th option in that offense behind Evans, DJax, Doug Martin, and Brate. It's though for him to get the necessary targets because of all the other weapons and there already being an established TE there that stays healthy.

Meanwhile, David Njoku is on a team that has very little when it comes to other receiving threats, so he has produced more as expected.
Engram is being used primarily as a receiver and will see a lot of work with all the NYG receivers going down and the fact their run game is terrible.