Offseason topic: the TEs behind Treydez Green

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Not sure about TE3 being more impactful than WR2,

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That's fair, it's kind of a hot take. If it comes true it means we're running 13 personel a lot AND the RB room is incredibly productive (therefore we're just not throwing it to our WR2 very much).

For that reason, I'm also really not that concerned about all that unproven depth at WR. Like I don't think we're going to run 4 (or 5) WRs out there very often at all. I think we're really only going to need 3 WRs (barring injury) that we can rely on.

As you can probably tell, I'm super bullish on the TE room given the trends we're seeing and Lane's scheme.

yeah I'd assume Thomas and Lafleur are battling for TE2 spot.

Bauer ended up leaving a lot to be desired. I really had high hopes for him.

Maybe if he had better coaching it would’ve made a difference.

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to the point where I think our TE#2 and TE#3 could easily be more impactful than any of our skill guys beyond WR1 & RB1&2

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No chance. You’re both underestimating our talent and depth at WR and how much Lane likes to spread the ball around. Go back and look at his Ole Miss teams. He’s had a couple of really good WR1s that had 1,000 yards, but lots of dudes with 600, 700, and 800. I don’t think he signed like 16 WRs to throw more to the TE 2 and 3.

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Lane loves scheming his TEs wide open,

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Lane loves scheming all his pass catchers wide open. You can certainly count on Green being targeting a ton, probably the most. But he’s really a WR and will be lined up in the slot and out wide way more than he will be next toy the OT.

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My (somewhat) bold prediction for 2026: our TEs will catch more total TDs than our WRs (last year it was 11-9 in favor of WRs)

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Yeah, no chance. Our WRs didn’t score more last year because we had no vertical passing game. Everything they got was pretty close to the LOS. They had to break it off to find the end zone. And Trey scored a bunch of his TDs inside the red zone. That’s no slight at all. It’s a compliment. We fed him down there even when the opponents knew it, and they still had a hard time stopping him.

What you’ll see a lot more of this year—I think—is Lane and Weis scheming a lot of guys wide open for long, untouched touchdowns. And that will mostly be WRs. Not to say our TEs 2 and 3 won’t be very involved, I just don’t see what you do. Our 5th, 6th, maybe 7th WRs will likely have more yards than our 2 and 3 TEs. There’s a HUGE drop off athletically between Trey and them.

The entire team and staff checked out in October. It was what it was.