05-02-2017, 01:09 PM
(05-02-2017, 01:07 PM)ochocincos Wrote: Might be better than paying him his full salary for playing only 20% of the offensive snaps like last year. The fact is his role has been diminishing for the past two seasons now.
2014: 43.8%
2015: 35.5%
2016: 20.2%
The Bengals have been in favor of using a TE over Hewitt when the OL blocking has been poor. Given the state of the OL right now, I'd expect more of the same and Hewitt's usage will be very low.
I think we see a revert back to lining up with a FB. If you look back that was Hills most productive year, and I think with our current O line it would do us well to get out of so much shotgun. Using a lead blocker and a power running game is the best remedy to a bad o line.