At the risk triggering draft day PTSD for our regular readers, who here can forget those long, weary years when we pined away for a proper Tight End? The months of helpless frustration at classes full of glorified WR’s who were too big and slow to play that position, but had no idea whatsoever about how to actually block? I can’t, that’s for sure.
The exasperation got to the point where many of us developed elaborate theories about looking for the blocking-first college TE who surprised with excellent athletic testing. “Route running is relatively easy to learn if you have the native tools.