I wasn't worried, now I'm worried. The Bengals are light at TE

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(06-24-2022, 04:38 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: TEs (Uzomah+Sample+Wilcox) combined took 1,350 offensive snaps for the Bengals in 2021. 
Tee Higgins and Tyler Boyd combined took 1,517 offensive snaps for the Bengals in 2021.

Despite having 3 very good WRs, the other WRs and the TEs took SUBSTANTIAL snaps in 2021. The non-Chase/Higgins/Boyd WRs combined for 508 offensive snaps in 2021.

So if you're looking at TEs and WRs on the Bengals last year that aren't the big 3 WRs, they combined for 1,858 offensive snaps in 2021. The big 3 WRs combined for 2,456 and were about as healthy as you can reasonably expect to ever be (missed 4 games out of 51). That's 43% of the WR/TE snap totals weren't Chase, Higgins, or Boyd. That's significant.

The easiest upgrade the Bengals have available right now is improving WR and TE depth, because they will see some serious action, and it doesn't take a whole lot (comparatively) to upgrade 4th/5th WRs and 2nd TEs from what they currently have.

Pretty sure what OP meant about not using TE much in this offense is related to targets in the passing game, not how many snaps TEs get.
TEs got fewer targets as a group than the RBs got.
540 total targets in the regular season.
WRs - 359 targets (67%)
RBs - 98 targets (18%)
TEs - 83 targets (15%)