UNIVERSITY PARK -- If you watched the SMU spring game on Saturday, you might have seen something that seemed a little unusual to the average Mustang fan - a tight end making a touchdown catch.
Really, a tight end making any kind of catch would come as news at SMU after the past few seasons. In the Chad Morris era, SMU threw 1,275 pass attempts. Of those, tight ends only made 41 receptions, making up a 3.2-percent slice of the pie.
Things became even more staggered in 2017. In the 12 games before Morris left for Arkansas, tight ends caught just four of SMU's 264 receptions, or 1.