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With our new HC keen on utilizing the TE, I wonder if we should pursue Luke Wilson to go along with Higbee. One less position of need in draft and he's a great locker room guy and very productive.

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With our new HC keen on utilizing the TE, I wonder if we should pursue Luke Wilson to go along with Higbee. One less position of need in draft and he's a great locker room guy and very productive.

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Go with a draft pick. This us a deep and talented draft class so there's no need to overpay a vet when we can get a more talented rookie and likely pay him less.
 

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http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/11430/tyler-higbee
Coach Sean McVay said second-year TE Tyler Higbee is someone he's "looking forward to getting on the grass with" this summer.
"He can stretch the seam; a nice catch radius," McVay said. "He's got a good feel and savvy in the pass game." Following the release of Lance Kendricks, Higbee sits comfortably atop the depth chart ahead of blocker Cory Harkey and fellow sophomore Temarrick Hemingway. The Rams may add help at the position, but Higbee has a sky-high ceiling as a 6'6/250 plus athlete entering McVay's tight end-friendly offense. Higbee has a chance in 2017 to triple the 29 targets he saw as a rookie. Mar 15 - 10:47 AM
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http://www.rotoworld.com/player/nfl/11430/tyler-higbee
Coach Sean McVay said second-year TE Tyler Higbee is someone he's "looking forward to getting on the grass with" this summer.
"He can stretch the seam; a nice catch radius," McVay said. "He's got a good feel and savvy in the pass game." Following the release of Lance Kendricks, Higbee sits comfortably atop the depth chart ahead of blocker Cory Harkey and fellow sophomore Temarrick Hemingway. The Rams may add help at the position, but Higbee has a sky-high ceiling as a 6'6/250 plus athlete entering McVay's tight end-friendly offense. Higbee has a chance in 2017 to triple the 29 targets he saw as a rookie. Mar 15 - 10:47 AM
Source: ESPN.com

Exactly. It sounds like he's slated as #1. Why waste a pick on unproven rookie, when you have Hemingway on the team already and can add a proven commodity to TE? Wilson seemed to do well with Jimmy Graham last season...
 

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From ESPN:
"In the two years that McVay served as playcaller, the Redskins ran three-tight end sets on 184 offensive snaps, ranked seventh in the NFL during that time. "
 

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With our new HC keen on utilizing the TE, I wonder if we should pursue Luke Wilson to go along with Higbee. One less position of need in draft and he's a great locker room guy and very productive.

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I really don't see any feasible reason for a TE, I mean are the ones we have currently that bad? Lets be honest anything is better then Kendricks at this point.
 

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I'd go rookie as well, if anything. We currently have Higbeast, Hemingway and Harkey. I like that potential.
 

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Exactly. It sounds like he's slated as #1. Why waste a pick on unproven rookie, when you have Hemingway on the team already and can add a proven commodity to TE? Wilson seemed to do well with Jimmy Graham last season...

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I really don't see any feasible reason for a TE, I mean are the ones we have currently that bad? Lets be honest anything is better then Kendricks at this point.

If there is a dynamic weapon like Evan Ingram available they have to consider him in round 2. Higbee and Hemingway are both unproven players. They are far from sure things.
 

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I like Higbee, Hemingway, and Harkey. I wouldn't mind adding another tight end in the draft, though.
 

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Probably end up getting another TE in the draft to either be 1b with Higbee or compete with Hemingway/Harkey. I expect Harkey to still be with us as the #3 TE at worst due to his fullback role.
 

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I like Higbee, Hemingway, and Harkey. I wouldn't mind adding another tight end in the draft, though.

It could also be interesting to see if anything comes of the Bryce Williams experiment.
 
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I could understand, if the right TE fell, they took him at #37.

Weapons is weapons. And we need weapons.
 

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It's all about who's there at our pick in round 2. There are situations where you'd have to take the TE there period due to value.

In general though I'd use that pick to enrich us elsewhere and scoop a TE from this very TE rich draft later. Round 3-5 are fine to address it depending on which guy you covet.