RayClay
Hall of Fame Poster
- Joined
- Nov 14, 2005
- Messages
- 26,958
- Reaction score
- 9,712
4.) Daniel Graham was a pass catching tight end.
In theory....
Registered Members experience this forum ad and noise-free.
CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.4.) Daniel Graham was a pass catching tight end.
Fauria, who couples his NFL commentary with a job as a studio analyst for college football on Versus, gushed over the the Patriots [team stats]’ selections of Rob Gronkowski and Aaron Hernandez in the draft.
“Both those guys are great picks. They’re both studs,” Fauria said of the players who follow him in the ranks of Patriots tight ends. “Both of them, in their own right, could be starting tight ends in the NFL, in my opinion.”
Fauria pictures Gronkowski as potentially having the same blocking impact as 6-foot-6, 280-pound Kyle Brady did in 2007.
“Gronkowski is like Kyle Brady. If you remember in ’07, when they went (16-0), Brady was a ginormous reason why they went (16-0) because he was killing people,” Fauria said. “Every time they ran, he had the edge set. If you can’t set the edge in the running game, you’ve got problems. So that’s a big part of it.”
How about having a ginormous target for Tom Brady [stats] in the red zone? The Pats really haven’t utilized their tight ends much inside the 20-yard line. Former Pats linebacker Vrabel was at one time the team’s best red-zone weapon. Maybe the 6-6, 265-pound Gronkowski will be the next in line.
“I hope so,” Fauria said. “There’s nothing like having some tight end love in the end zone.