Picking the top five Wildcat tight ends was a struggle, y'all. Nine different players received votes from our staff, and a tenth -- Glenn Gronkowski -- earned a mention based solely on the idea that he got All-Conference votes there.
The four other guys who didn't make the cut were Brian Casey, a Mackey Award finalist in 2004 and part of the 2003 title team; the just-departed Zack Trujillo, who was an underrated part of the offense the last few years but rightly didn't quite make the top five; Russ Campbell, one of the players Bill Snyder actually inherited when he arrived in Manhattan and a 7th-round pick by the Steelers in 1992; and the most agonizing exclusion of all, Pro Bowler Henry Childs, once of Vince Gibson's boys who went on to an 11-year NFL career and is a member of the New Orleans Saints Hall of Fame.