Jason Witten was never a deep threat, and he certainly didn’t run away from coverage. Most TEs don’t. Kelce, Kittle, they are not deep threats either. Waller is a deep threat, but that’s not what you get from most real TEs who play in-line. The thing that shocked me most this year about Schultz was his YAC. He was hard to bring down and showed some slipperiness.
- Actually Witten shook and out juked coverage LBs and safeties one on one frequently and on a regular basis with such text book hip & shoulder and footwork.
He could consistently set up and sell double moves to tie the ankles and shoe lances in knots of coverage men on a game to game, season to season basis
En route to a HOF career ?
- Witten was an above average athlete with sensational separation skills.
And despite the puzzling number of false start penalties he’d accumulate, he also was an terrific combo receiving/block TE in his prime years.
- i dunno where this notion ever came that Witten was slow,.. i mean the guy was 4.65 40 time a 255 lbs, prior to the NFL draft.
That's an outstanding size/ speed physical measurements
- His athletic prowess was not on the level of Tony Gonzalez or Antonio Gates, but he certainly was no stiff.
Only thing i was ever surprised with Witten's career is why his Red Zone TDs was so afar from the likes of HOF'ers Gonzalez/Gates.
- i don't get where anyone can contest that Kelsie is not a dangerous threat deep per the many of times that we regularly see Kelce split
and get behind the two deep safeties over the past years.