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That's not correct. It's been personnel based from the beginning. Once the team had its 2 TE1 grouping that BB had been looking for, it went
Welker
Hernandez
Gronk
Woodhead
OWR (Moss trade year)
then
Welker
Gronk
Hernandez
Branch
then
Welker
Lloyd (Gronk missed 5 games and Hernandez missed 6)
Gronk
Hernandez
Woodhead
then
TE1b goes to jail
So, when they had the viable 2TE attack, the TEs were #2 and #3 in targets and catches, when healthy, behind only Welker.
All of our analysis would be a bit easier if we considered Hernandez a WR. The reality is that there is no TE out available that would fill his role. Hence, we should focus more energy on WR.