CINCINNATI -- Pat Freiermuth grinned as he looked down at the blue and white block letters screen printed across his gray hoodie. It was no coincidence, he said, that he was wearing a TEU -- Tight Ends U -- sweatshirt after a career afternoon in the win against the Cincinnati Bengals. "I just hopefully brought some good luck [with me]," Freiermuth said "I learned some good things down there. ... I was talking to my family over Thanksgiving. I was like, hopefully this is the one that I can build on."
Freiermuth attended TEU -- an annual retreat put on by George Kittle and other premier NFL tight ends to enrich the position group in Nashville -- for the first time this summer, but to this point, he hadn't been able to showcase his skills in his third season.