All 3 Bengals TEs in final year under contract this season

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(05-09-2023, 02:42 PM)ochocincos Wrote: 1) Personally, I don't, but even when he's been mostly healthy in a season, the most production he put up was 365 yards, which was back when Kyle Rudolph was the TE1 and primary starter. That was all the way back in 2020. He then missed all 2021 with knee surgery, and then he only played 8 games (1 start) last year. The Vikings started Johnny Mundt (who?!) over Irv Smith before Smith went down and they traded for Hockenson.

2) There are teams like the Packers who have fresh draft picks Musgrave and Kraft then Josiah Deguara at TE, but there might be more optimism in Musgrave-Kraft-Deguara compared to Smith-Sample-Asiasi. GB probably about the worst TE group I can think of other than possibly the Bengals.

3) A SB-winning team with bad TEs might be the 2013 Seahawks? They had Zach Miller and Luke Willson, neither reaching even 400 yards that season. But Miller was good in OAK before coming to SEA. Worse than that might be having to go all the way back to the 2003-2004 Patriots with Daniel Graham as their best TE with only 409 yards in 2003 and 364 yards in 2004. What do all these teams have in common though? Great defense, heavy run offense.

Maybe a bit of a hot take, but in 2-3 years that Packers TE group will be Top 10 in the league. I’d take Musgrave/Kraft over anything the Bengals have.