(03-21-2022, 09:33 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(03-21-2022, 08:58 PM)Upper Wrote: 65 or 70 is fine. 33 is not.

Question:  If I recall correctly (and please correct me if I don't) you were strongly against Friermuth at the bottom of the first and in the 2nd last year.

Do you just not like TEs taken higher than the 3rd?

In very rare instances like Pitts perhaps, but in general no. TE development curves are very slow. They very frequently don't contribute anything significant until their second contract, often for another team. Even the elite ones that were drafted in the first round rarely hit.

Here are the last dozen 1st round TE: Pitts, Fant, Hurst, Njoku, Engram, Howard, Ebron, Eifert, Gresham, Pettigrew, Keller. Not exactly murderers row.

Freiermuth does appear to be on a trajectory to be an outlier, but I very much don't like gambling on outliers. I am team draft freak athlete TE on day 3 (pray Jelani drops but more likely Bellinger) and sign FA TE. I wanted badly to sign one of Henry or Jonnu last year and I think Engram was by far our best FA value, even if I have serious concerns about how to fit him on the field with Kirk.

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