01-26-2016, 05:38 PM
(01-26-2016, 04:55 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: Hopefully next year Eifert can start 16 games, so I would feel better about the Bengals giving him a deal before his 5th year option comes into play. If he misses another 3-5 games, it starts getting tricky though. The closest he's come to a full season is his rookie year when he started 15, but he wasn't playing a full workload of snaps in those 15 games. (In 2013, Eifert played only 59.5% of the snaps despite starting 15 games.)
So at that point, do you pay him big TE money based on potential of if he could stay healthy for a full starters workload, or do you try to pay him with that injury risk included and risk losing him to FA?
We don't agree on much, but I definitely want to see how many games Eifert play next year before we give hima big contract. If he misses any substantial amounts of time then you have to consider him "injury prone". I know some injuries are unavoidable, but for some reason certain players get hurt a lot more often than others.
