Film Room: TE Zach Gentry’s Michigan Route Tree

The advent of spread offenses has led to the traditional tight end position to be pushed to the back burner in college football. Three receiver and 4 receiver sets has become the norm. This brings production down and projection to the forefront.

In just 10 years the overall numbers for TE’s has dropped precipitously. Look at some of the numbers from 2008:

And here is 2018:

With usage being down, players are not asked to do as much as they were in the past and a lot of TE’s often come into the NFL with a limited route tree.