For all the words written about Brian Daboll’s experience with tight ends and about how he could bring them more targets, we saw little of it in 2017. In fact, the tight ends only caught 24 passes last season, the lowest number of the Saban era (though, to be fair, 2013 and 2014 saw the tight ends get a lower percentage of the total receptions than 2017).
Despite that, Alabama does boast a deep group of tight ends.
The Starters
You wouldn’t know it from the stat sheet, Hentges has been contributing for Alabama since first arriving in 2015.