Try to sell me on O.J. Howard.

[Okeana]

Howard is probably the highest projected TE in the history of the NFL and many scouts have said he has the highest grade of any TE they have ever scouted. In college he wasn't utilized fully because of the system he played in. That said he didn't pout and played an even more vital role for the team with his excellent blocking. So you won't see any huge stats from him because that wasn't how he was used, but when he was used in both receiving and blocking he was stellar. I cannot state enough just how good his blocking is for a tight end coming out of college its pretty outstanding.

Eifert is someone the team wants to retain, but historically is unreliable because of injuries every year. I think regardless if they extend Eifert or not they want to continue to improve their TE stable and eventually play a lot of two TE sets and convert to a run first team. I think they realize that in order to succeed with Dalton in the post season they need to be able to run the ball much more and get out of this spread system we have been using for him.

While I don't think they will draft OJ Howard I wouldn't be upset if they did because gaining blue chip players is always a positive for the team and he's every bit a top 5 player regardless of how NFL teams feel about drafting TE's in the top 10. Would you give a 9th overall pick for Gronk if you could go back to that draft ? most people would say yes