KDPPatsfan85
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Seems hes a good/very good pass AND run blocker.
I'm seeing size 6-4/6-5 and 261 to 270.
Good scouting report and college film on him and DET coverage of the trade
Detroit Lions trading TE Michael Roberts to New England Patriots
Scouting Report: TE Michael Roberts, Toledo
I wonder who they send packing but IIRC they are down a player?
Just for the hell of it....He ran a 4.86 40 so a bit on the slow side...
I think most of us who weighed in on the TE position felt losing Gronk's (and Allen's) pass and run blocking was a huge loss.We only really heard about Lacosse during OTA's. None of the other TE's seemed to get noticed (not necessarily their fault, as it's hard to prove you're a good blocker when you're not in pads). Adds another piece to the competition for TE3 (week 5 and beyond).
I agree. Considering we're rebuilding the TE position from the ground up we have a fairly decent collection of pieces.With Roberts as the blocker and LaCosse as the receiver, our TE group is shaping up to be underwhelming yet functional nonetheless. Watson should add a more complete element after a month too.
We'll see. I'm no expecting much here. Despite what he did in college I have no hope he'll ever be able to catch the ball. If he could he would have shown that by now.
As far as blocking who knows. Maybe it will be note worthy and maybe not. While I appreciate a TEs ability to block unless you are amazing at it I don't care much. If you're gonna get a TE mostly for blocking I'd rather just throw another OL man out there and not play games about it. As far as I'm concerned having a TE eligible OT catching a pass can be more important.
Those Nate Solder catches worked so well because they were unexpected. No reason not to have a back up OT learn to catch a little than use him at TE unless you have a guy you REALLY like one way or the other.
I don't see them team carrying 3 TEs and I don't see them cutting Watson or LaCrosse (due to his contract situation). At best this is probably a 4 week rental. But honestly it's likely just another camp body.