It is not uncommon to study a player you want to emulate. Still, it is quite astonishing to hear Rhett Ellison, the newly signed Giants tight end, say, “In college, all I watched was Bear Pascoe film.’’
Pascoe is a fairly nondescript tight end who played for the Giants from 2009-2013 and earned a Super Bowl ring as a blocker, part-time fullback and, on rare occasions, a pass-catcher.
Those are the football traits Ellison displayed in his five seasons with the Vikings and why the Giants gave him a four-year, $18 million contract on Thursday.
Ellison came out of USC in 2012 hoping the Giants would take him in the NFL Draft.