(03-05-2021, 11:58 AM)Bullseye Wrote:

(03-04-2021, 05:54 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: Agreed. Hunter Long is my #2 TE. I think Brevin Jordan is underrated too.

I dislike Hunter Ling.

Many of you see Friermuth is slow.  I don't.

Hunter Long, however, is almost painful to watch. 

He gets no separation whatsoever.

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(03-05-2021, 10:10 AM)Mikey Wrote: Might have to ask for clarification, for a while he was the flavor of the week, but as of late it seems that he's become frowned upon. Not sure if your statement is an endorsement or a criticism of Long.

See above.

Apologies for not being clear.

If you're looking for a TE who gets real separation, those guys are few and far between. You basically need to find an athletic freak or an over-sized WR who has converted to TE. Long is a solid route runner and basically catches everything thrown his way. He may not be a "freak athlete" like Travis Kelce or Rob Gronkowski or a WR/TE combo like a young Jimmy Graham or Darren Waller, but Long reminds me a lot of a TE many people on this board want us to sign in free agency and that is Hunter Henry. I truly believe Long has the second best hands at the position, behind Pitts. 

Kyle Pitts is the only real "separation" TE in this draft and he's likely going in the top 10. He is what I call an "athletic freak."  With that said, we have no shot at him. If we want that kind of TE in this draft, I would select an over-sized WR like Simi Fehoko of Stanford. In him, I really see a raw version of Kyle Pitts. Fehoko is listed at 6'4" 227 lbs. and I could see him being the same type TE that Darren Waller has turned into, only Fehoko has much better hands. He'd be a project though and would probably take a season or two to really start to resemble what I believe he can be.

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