(04-09-2024, 02:14 PM)PDub80 Wrote: Dallin Holker, I believe.

Also, if you haven't gone through it at all over the past few draft seasons, the NFL has an AMAZING micro-website for looking through prospects and having rankings/gradings on them. This site is immensely helpful as a sort of way to compare value, traits, and some light measurables on each draft prospect & positional rankings. The NFL has these for drafts even going back to AJ Green if you want to go look up how guys were viewed, ranked, slotted, etc. 

Here is a link.... https://www.nfl.com/combine/tracker/participants/

I poke around through this and read stuff quite a bit leading up to and after the draft!

(04-09-2024, 02:16 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: Holker maybe?

I remember looking at back when I first was looking at tight ends and he came off as too much of a receiver-type build and player. I know the league values tight ends as more receivers now, but I just mean that he didn't come off as overly physical or a guy that can be dominant over the middle. He does have great hands but I just want our tight end as more of a physical presence because, even in this changing league, that still seems important to our division.

(04-09-2024, 02:52 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: Early?  No.  Maybe they go with an athletic pass catching type in round 3-7

(04-09-2024, 03:32 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: You think they'd get a guy in rounds 3-7 that could do what Sanders or Bowers can do and make as big a difference?

Bowers or Sanders would completely change the way defenses play us.

Stover's also good but not on the level of Sanders and Bowers. 

(04-09-2024, 03:32 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: You think they'd get a guy in rounds 3-7 that could do what Sanders or Bowers can do and make as big a difference?

Bowers or Sanders would completely change the way defenses play us.

Stover's also good but not on the level of Sanders and Bowers. 

(04-09-2024, 04:34 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: 100%.  Zac isn't changing the way he calls plays or the scheme because we have Bowers (Sanders is a nice prospect, but nowhere near Bowers).

Neither would change the way defenses play us.  Give me an athletic guy that can threaten defenses enough to keep them honest and it will have the same effect of Bowers.

(04-09-2024, 07:57 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: I guess I should make myself clear though - if Bowers was there at 18 I would take him over anyone else that would be realistically there.  I would also hope that we would adjust things to get him involved.

(04-10-2024, 09:07 AM)JoeyB2023 Wrote: Ohhh the tight end people lmao

(04-09-2024, 09:06 PM)BFritz21 Wrote: I can't imagine that Zac wouldn't change the way he calls plays or that Burrow wouldn't be in his ear telling him that we need to incorporate either guy into the offense more. 

Even if Burrow just looks at the tight end as his first read sometimes, even if it's not his first true option, they'd have to know that it would hold the safeties in the backers from being in the throwing lanes on the outside/over top/doubling Chase.

Chase isn't Marvin and I believe that he'd adapt, especially since he'd have so much influence in drafting Bowers.

(04-11-2024, 02:34 PM)Hammerstripes Wrote: I really don't think the play calling would change that much.  I also think that a guy like Sinnot or Johnson later on would accomplish the same thing that Bowers would.  Both are really strong athletes that defenses would have to respect.