Fendi gets another chance

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The Buffalo Bills needed to add a player to their active roster after placing kicker Rian Lindell on IR Thursday. They did just that Friday morning, signing second-year tight end Fendi Onobun off of the Jacksonville Jaguars' practice squad.

Onobun's story is an interesting one. He was a four-year member of the Arizona Wildcats basketball team that, in his senior season of 2009, surprised in making the Sweet 16 as a No. 12 seed before bowing out to top overall seed Louisville. After his career as a reserve wrapped up with that loss, Onobun spent the fall of 2009 playing college football at Houston, catching two passes for 33 yards in one season.

Still, Onobun was a sixth-round draft pick of the St. Louis Rams last season (picked in the same neighborhood as Danny Batten and Arthur Moats), and has since spent time with the Seattle Seahawks, Washington Redskins and Jacksonville Jaguars. Why does he keep getting looks, you ask? Because he's a 6'6", 263-pound man with big hands that ran under 4.5 seconds in the 40-yard dash at his pro day.

Onobun is the fourth tight end on Buffalo's active roster, sitting behind the dinged-up Scott Chandler as well as Lee Smith and Mike Caussin.

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[bluecoconuts]

I think he keeps getting looks because he's physically built to be amazing, but he keeps getting cut because he lacks the talent to make it.

 

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I think he keeps getting looks because he's physically built to be amazing, but he keeps getting cut because he lacks the talent to make it.

True. Really gifted athlete. Hard to not take a flyer on someone with that kind of a pro day.

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[JdashSTL]

I think he keeps getting looks because he's physically built to be amazing, but he keeps getting cut because he lacks the talent to make it.

I really thought he could have made contributions for us. I remember last year when people were saying that he was progressing pretty fast, then it sucked for him to end up on IR. I still think he is someone that can turn into a solid receiving threat.

 

[DR RAM]

I wish him the best.

 

[HornIt]

I think he keeps getting looks because he's physically built to be amazing, but he keeps getting cut because he lacks the talent to make it.

True. Really gifted athlete. Hard to not take a flyer on someone with that kind of a pro day.

Taking the flyer is fine. Using a draft pick on that level of flyer was not fine.

He was a classic UDFA type that you see if you can develop on the practice squad, but Devaney got too cute with it and drafted him when there were actual good football players left on the board that had much better odds of success.

 

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I think he keeps getting looks because he's physically built to be amazing, but he keeps getting cut because he lacks the talent to make it.

True. Really gifted athlete. Hard to not take a flyer on someone with that kind of a pro day.

Taking the flyer is fine. Using a draft pick on that level of flyer was not fine.

He was a classic UDFA type that you see if you can develop on the practice squad, but Devaney got too cute with it and drafted him when there were actual good football players left on the board that had much better odds of success.

Maybe. Maybe not. He was a projected 6th-7th rounder and that's where he was picked up. Is what it is.

 

[HornIt]

I think he keeps getting looks because he's physically built to be amazing, but he keeps getting cut because he lacks the talent to make it.

True. Really gifted athlete. Hard to not take a flyer on someone with that kind of a pro day.

Taking the flyer is fine. Using a draft pick on that level of flyer was not fine.

He was a classic UDFA type that you see if you can develop on the practice squad, but Devaney got too cute with it and drafted him when there were actual good football players left on the board that had much better odds of success.

Maybe. Maybe not. He was a projected 6th-7th rounder and that's where he was picked up. Is what it is.

Projected by whom? Most had him as a UDFA, which is where he belonged. There are always going to be "some" who project a college basketball player as draft worthy in the NFL based only nothing but workouts.

 

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I think he keeps getting looks because he's physically built to be amazing, but he keeps getting cut because he lacks the talent to make it.

True. Really gifted athlete. Hard to not take a flyer on someone with that kind of a pro day.

Taking the flyer is fine. Using a draft pick on that level of flyer was not fine.

He was a classic UDFA type that you see if you can develop on the practice squad, but Devaney got too cute with it and drafted him when there were actual good football players left on the board that had much better odds of success.

Maybe. Maybe not. He was a projected 6th-7th rounder and that's where he was picked up. Is what it is.

Projected by whom? Most had him as a UDFA, which is where he belonged. There are always going to be "some" who project a college basketball player as draft worthy in the NFL based only nothing but workouts.

Projected by your obvious draft mags. People with opinions like yours and mine. Nobody had the final say on where he was drafted, it's just what I read. He had a great pro day and then held individual (private) workouts with the Giants, Jets, Panthers, Texans, Seahawks and Rams. His stock rose after that. Like I said. Is what it is. I really don't care to argue about it. If you say drafting him was a mistake, then so be it. I don't care that much about it.