TE situation and Nate Wozniak

jeanpierre · 03-19-2019, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by Papa Voodoo

https://webpages.uidaho.edu/~renaes/...%20ht%20wt.pdf

I know he is on the PS bulking up for OL duty. He may not even make the team at OL this year. Shouldn't we at least try him as a TE seeing what we have at the position? If we are going less vertical in the passing game then his speed becomes less of a factor as he could essentially box out a linebacker or, at minimum, require he be covered to open other receivers.

The average height of a linebacker is just over 6 feet. He has a 10" height advantage and about 40 pounds of mass.

How do we do what we do with Hill and not try something with Woz?

We tried him at TE already, and we determined he moved more like a Right Tackle than a Tight End; he just didn't have the movement skill-set to be a Tight End...

That's not to say we can't bring him along as we did with Zach Strief and develop him as our RT, put him in Jumbo sub-packages that'd make him a tackle-eligible...

That's a plan I'd be a big proponent of seeing the team execute...

03-19-2019, 04:29 PM	#2
jeanpierre Site Donor 2018 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Thibodaux Posts: 43,543 Blog Entries: 39	Re: TE situation and Nate Wozniak Originally Posted by Papa Voodoo https://webpages.uidaho.edu/~renaes/...%20ht%20wt.pdf I know he is on the PS bulking up for OL duty. He may not even make the team at OL this year. Shouldn't we at least try him as a TE seeing what we have at the position? If we are going less vertical in the passing game then his speed becomes less of a factor as he could essentially box out a linebacker or, at minimum, require he be covered to open other receivers. The average height of a linebacker is just over 6 feet. He has a 10" height advantage and about 40 pounds of mass. How do we do what we do with Hill and not try something with Woz? We tried him at TE already, and we determined he moved more like a Right Tackle than a Tight End; he just didn't have the movement skill-set to be a Tight End... That's not to say we can't bring him along as we did with Zach Strief and develop him as our RT, put him in Jumbo sub-packages that'd make him a tackle-eligible... That's a plan I'd be a big proponent of seeing the team execute... SmashMouth likes this.