It wasn’t a marquee year for Detroit Lions tight ends. After deciding that Eric Ebron wasn’t worth the $8.25 million fifth year of his contract, general manager Bob Quinn scrambled to find a replacement... any replacement.
“We talked to basically every tight end on the free agent market and tried to get those guys here,” Quinn admitted last week.
The Lions missed out on a couple of top free agents; they couldn’t get a trade for Rob Gronkowski completed and Quinn even admitted that they tried again at the trade deadline.