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re: If Brock Bowers or Rome Odunze are still on the board at 14, do you take one of them?
Posted on 4/6/24 at 5:31 pm to Handsome Pete
Posted on 4/6/24 at 5:31 pm to Handsome Pete
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Historically, though, it's a bigger risk (see Pitts, Fant, Ebron, Hockensen, OJ Howard). That's the last 4 TE taken before pick 20, their teams thought they were safer picks too. Not all horrible, but no stars there, and none of them elevated their team.
I agree that historically it's a bigger risk to take a tight end over a tackle.
Problem is Bowers isn't just any tight end. He is doing things that have never been done. He hasn't just done them for 1 year either. Bowers has been elite for 3 years straight.
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Posted on 4/6/24 at 8:33 pm to Chalkywhite84
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Problem is Bowers isn't just any tight end. He is doing things that have never been done. He hasn't just done them for 1 year either. Bowers has been elite for 3 years straight.
Scheme has a lot to do with this. Bowers caught a crazy 48 % of his passes behind the line of scrimmage. Out of all the first round TEs drafted in that range the closest in that category was 22%. Why is this important?
Well first it shows half of his catches were schemed catches not ones caught in defensive traffic. Second, most NFL teams will not be throwing to their TE behind the line of scrimmage. This is not to say Bowers isnt talented- its just lets keep things in perspective when people say he isn’t “just any TE.”
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