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Originally Posted by barrett
Whether Hill can catch it is not what is relevant here. They didn't draft him to catch it when they already had OD and Dreesen on the roster. They drafted him to replace Bruener, a guy who was on the field for less than %25 of the snaps. And they didn't view him as a potential starting TE if they still went ahead and took Casey a round later.
They spent a 4th round pick on a situational luxury pick. It's a wasted pick even if he blocks great.
This has nothing to do with Hill or his performance but rather with drafting a guy to be the backup TE in the 4th round.
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I understand what your saying I just don't agree with it on philosophical basis. Most fourth round picks, regardless of position, are likely to be back-ups. You hope that you hit a few home runs and find some guys who are instant starters and develop into stars, but that is the exception and not the rule. More often than not if you can just find a guy who plays a role, even a small one, and contributes on special teams (and hopefully develops into a more complete player) you are ahead of the curve. I also doubt that the Texans front office said this guy is never going to be more than a third TE, let's go ahead and take him. Jacoby Jones is probably on the field for 25% of the snaps, and that's just this year that he's started seeing more time as a WR, but that doesn't mean he doesn't play a useful role.
I would have preferred they went another route in the fourth, and thought the Casey pick was especially redundant(though it looks much smarter now), because at least with the Hill pick they went and got a guy who filled a role completely different from what we had on the team already.
I agree with you in the sense that we aren't deep enough across the board to start taking specialist early, but as the overall team talent gets better that becomes a luxury bad teams don't have.
I just can't agree that taking a blocking back-up TE in the fourth is automatically a waste.