Why am I so damn optimistic?

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(09-16-2021, 07:13 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Depends on your definition of "very good," I guess.
Uzomah's best season (16 games) - 43 rec, 439 yards, 3 TDs
That's not "very good" in my book. That's just decent. He was just the 17th TE in the league in yardage that year, behind Chris Herndon (WHO?!)

To me, "very good" for a TE is 600+ yards.

I am not going to try and argue that CJ is a top TE.  But he is far from the bottom.  It is hard to judge based on just raw numbers because some teams target their TEs more than others.  And his best season that you mention was 2018 when Driskel started several games and we had less than 3300 passing yards.

If you look at the efficiency numbers Uzo has an above average catch percentage and a below average yds/target.  Again this has a lot to do with the way the Bengals use TEs mainly as checkdown receivers.  Eifert was an elite talent at TE.  He could get in and out of his cuts and run routes like a WR.  But even he only had one season with an average of over 12 yards per catch.