Bengals working out TE's

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(10-19-2017, 12:08 PM)depthchart Wrote: Kroft's last 3 games:  13 catches for 134 yards and 2 touchdowns

If he could become durable enough to miss say just 1 game per season, then these numbers could be roughly as follows.

15 games:  65 catches for 670 yards and 10 touchdowns.

Granted that this is just a multiple of his last 3 games by 5 but I think it may be close to doable for Kroft, if healthy.

Health is our issue.

It's easy to project stats over a whole based on X number of games. People (including myself) do it all the time.
Unfortunately, many of those trends don't actually come to fruition by the end of the season.

If we actually take Kroft's three games and project them over the remaining games, we're looking at...
44.67 YPG and 0.67 TDPG
Spread that over 11 remaining games and it's 491.37 yards and 7.37 TD. Let's round for simplicity sake to 491 yards and 7 TD.
Add that to what he's accumulated so far and he'd be at 630 yards and 9 TD. Not quite double-digit TDs. But that would be a great season for Kroft regardless.

In fact, only five players had double-digit receiving TDs last year, none of which were TEs.
The year before, there were 13 people, three of which were TEs (Eifert, Gronk, Reed).
And the year before that, 15 people, four of which were TEs (Graham, Gates, Julius Thomas, and Gronk).
But your point still stands, it CAN be done and Kroft COULD be one to achieve that given his trend of the past few games, but it's very rare to get 10+ TDs from anyone.
EDIT - Especially for a TE given how they typically miss at least a couple games a season. Kroft is likely due to miss a game or two out of the remaining 11, so it might be tough to reach that projected 600+ yards and 9 TDs.