Fasano and Bennett were/are not hybrid TEs. They are like Witten. But I agree, why isn't he getting more snaps. Why aren't we using the 12 and 13 more often? Where he was drafted was a product of his talent and where he fit with the rest of the move TEs in the draft which were the vast majority of them. It's not his fault he's not being used unless he sucks which means both he and Hanna suck. There are a lot of head scratchers on offense. Enough in fact that they have moved me from finally starting to be a Garrett convert to one who's starting to wonder a lot.
I agree, it's a head scratcher. Apart from the fact that this staff either doesn't know how to utilize 12 sets or develop TE, why do they keep trying to force the issue. Using the the Pats and Saints as examples, neither team forced the issue with their now star TE's. The Pats starting using 12 sets out of necessity, after losing Moss they had no real pass catching threats outside of Welker. They had just drafted 2 TE's with their plethora of draft picks because they were in desperate need of one in the hopes at least one of them would develop. As what a good offensive staff should do, they adapted to the talent they had and developed a scheme to utilize their talents. I don't think they expected quite the level of success especially so early. In hindsight it seems like a no brainer, but honestly how many rookies have that kind of impact so quickly. In New Orleans case, they drafted Graham in hopes to develop him, he was very raw with little football experience. Again, he developed quickly, more than they had expected. In both cases, their TE's are the best players on their offenses and each team adapted and started rebuilding their offensive scheme around them, and rightfully so.
We have Dez and this team needs to do better in building the offense to Dez's talent. I am not against in finding that dynamic TE, but when we use a 2nd round pick, he needs to be playing now. These days you don't take players in the 2nd round to develop, unless it's a QB.
