Excellent Thread!!
For as long as I've been here, I've been pimping the "Double Tight End" Offense. Mind you...
If I had my druthers, I'd go with my patented
Double WingBack Attack.
But "Double Tight End", as you describe it, works for me.
It's important, though, I believe, to distinguish between types of Tight Ends ~ so important that I've broken them down into subsets over the last few Years, to distinguish Skill Sets:
Tight Ends ~ 6.5/260 or so. Gronkowski is the ProtoType.
Flex Ends ~ 6.3/245 or so. Hernandez is the ProtoType.
WingBacks ~ 6.0/245 or so. Marcel Reece is the ProtoType.
Dwayne Allen is shorter than the ProtoType, but at 6.3/265 Pounds is a classic Tight End who strikes me as an impressive Blocker and indeed as an adept Receiver ~ for a Tight End.
Scott Chandler, at 6.7/260, is also what I characterize as a classic Tight End, with a Frame much like
Jimmy Graham's, albeit spared the additional burden of Talent.
Timothy Wright, at 6.4/220, is a Split End ~ Randy Moss being the ProtoType ~ despite the obnoxious persistence of everyone calling'm a Tight End because the Bucs used him that way out'f desperation.
Ladarius Green is rather tall for my ProtoType, but at 6.6/240 is definitely a Flex End. His Production jumped in his 4th Year, he's always had sensational Straight Line Speed, and I believe that if the Lightning Bolts can't tie'm up, there's going to be a flat out Feeding Frenzy for this kid.
I can't say that I covet the guy, though: His Blocking sucks, and he's never struck me as much of a Route Runner. I believe that if he hits Free Agency, somebody's gonna go ApeShit over his combination of Straight Line Speed and Towering Height and throw 5 or 6 Million a Year at'm.
Hell, though...
At
6056 and a 4.56 40, maybe Run Like Hell and I'll Throw You The Ball is good enough!!
Of course we wouldn't even
have this issue of replacing The Convict if we'd drafted
TE Travis Kelce and XE Jordan Reed in 2013
as your devoted Servant suggested!!