The overwhelming youthfulness of the New England Patriots’ tight end room is almost comical.
As of Monday afternoon, the Patriots had six players on their roster who are listed as tight ends (not including tight end/defensive end Rashod Berry, who’s played on defense in training camp).
Four of them — Devin Asiasi, Dalton Keene, Jake Burt and Paul Quessenberry — never have played in an NFL game of any sort. Another — ex-Oakland Raider Paul Burton — has only seen game action in the preseason.
The lone member of that position group who’s played in a real, actual, meaningful professional football game is 24-year-old Ryan Izzo, who has exactly six games of NFL experience and was essentially benched for ineffectiveness midway through last season.