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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thequick12" data-source="post: 809424" data-attributes="member: 9797">There's a small chance that none of the 4 tight ends currently on the 53 man roster will be with the team in 2019.  There's a very good chance that at least 2 of the 4 are gone.  Lance Kendricks and Mercedes Lewis are both free agents after the season and I don't expect either will be back.  As I see nothing either brings to the team going forward.  Then you have Jimmy Graham 49 catches 581 yards and 2 tds 11.9 yards a catch.  He hasn't been everything everyone hoped for but he certainly hasn't been martellus Bennett either, playing thru a broken thumb.  In fact his final stat line is still likely to end up as the 3rd best of all time for a Packers te.  And he still has an outside chance at making 13 receptions over the final 2 games to break Finley's single season te receptions record.  If he does that he'd also likely come close to getting 187 yards and besting Finley's high water yardage mark as well.  But I doubt he gets 13 so we'll call it 3rd best.  A lot of people want to cut him before his $5 m roster bonus in March.  Which is in my mind a ridiculous proposal.  It comes with 7m in dead money.  It makes much more sense to give graham one more season with Rodgers and then revaulate after 2019.  If he plays poorly let him go and eat around only 3.5 m in dead money.  But my money is on graham having an even better season in 2019 than he did in 2018.  And if he does that he likely breaks all the packers single season receiving records.  So that leaves us with tonyon I think he's shown enough to warrant a spot on the 53 in 2019.  He looks like he could be a definite weapon for Aaron Rodgers.  Assuming we keep graham and tonyon I'd still love to see gute take a te as high as the 2nd round.  A guy like Irv Smith Jr.  I wouldn't even be against a scenario where the Packers took the Alabama te in round 2 and tj hockenson in the 3rd round.  That would turn the te position into a real strength going forward.  You'd have a diverse group of players with graham, tonyon, Smith, and hockenson as your 4 tes on the 53.  And I think each could contribute significantly and in different ways.  Graham is graham.  Tonyon can stretch the seams and is an athletic beast as is Smith Jr.  Then in hockenson you have more of the traditional NFL te.  It would be a very promising group.</blockquote>

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