Tee’s market price (Update: 3 March 25, Tee has been tagged again)

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(02-23-2025, 10:53 PM)TheLeonardLeap Wrote: We lack top end talent at WR? LOL...We have THE top end talent at WR in Chase. 

What we lack at WR is NFL-caliber depth, and Tee doesn't solve that because he's not going to be on the field 45% of the time. Heck, on top of signing Palmer and Boyd I would still use a 2nd or 3rd on a WR as well so that Iosivas is our 4th or 5th WR and only comes onto the field when we're inside the 10 yard line. He's the only other player in our WR room that would likely make another NFL roster for anything more than ST, and most of the other guys wouldn't even do that.

Fant blocks, Gesicki doesn't. Pitts doesn't block, but he's a better pass catcher than Gesicki. Both would be clear upgrades at TE and are still young enough to be at least a 3-4 year solutions. Gesicki is also both going into his age 30 season and isn't nearly as good but just got the Burrow TE bump. People were certain that we needed to re-sign Uzomah, people were certain we needed to re-sign Hurst. Gesicki is just more of the same.

You can still cut Hubbard and Cappa and use that savings to sign Trey Smith without re-signing Tee, and then you can use that $11m towards ALSO signing Josh Sweat.


Smith + Sweat + Palmer + Pitts + Boyd >>> Higgins + Smith (and still having Yoshi as a starter and C Jones/Burton playing a lot as soon as Tee inevitably gets hurt and having Murphy as a starter).

Burrow has done a good job with the routine change at TE. But you are grossly exaggerating “the burrow bump”. Heck, there might not be one. Burrow does get the TE to play up to similar career high seasons.

Case in point.

CJ Uzomah 2018 - 43-439-3
CJ Uzomah 2021 - 49-493-5

Hayden Hurst 2020 - 56-571-6
Hayden Hurst 2022 - 52-414-2

Irv Smith - worst season by a mile as a pro with bengals.

Mike G 2021 73-780-2
Mike G 2024 65-665- 2

So, burrow does get near ceiling out of the TE, but he certainly isn’t getting a “bump” (I’ll give you Uzomah.. I guess). Please don’t use age either, none of these guys were “washed/past their prime”.