Tore his ACL. He’s a 220lb converted WR who caught some balls mostly ad libbing routes similar to the 6’8” TE who created the board uproar years back. He’s the epitome of a developmental player and doesn’t have much of a clue as to how to actually play TE. If you look at the TEs they brought in as UDFAs their focus is blocking. He may be competing with Hendershot but he’s more of a multi year practice squad type!
He was 232 last year. Could be bigger now. He is not an inline TE. He's a move TE also called an H/back. McCarthy used that position at GB when he had a "receiving TE"
You can say that again
You should stop thinking.
His playing weight in college was 220s. He put on weight for his pro day because he didn’t have a chance at WR. Wasn’t much of a receiver in college 41 rec for 650 yards in 5 seasons and had issues with drops. Hendershot is by far a much better option at H back!
Hendershot was not used on any of the plays that Stephens ran. Once he was hurt all those plays disappeared from the offense.
So the 3rd/4th string TE was out running some mysterious plays that the regular offense doesn’t run… Or was he just running around because he doesn’t have a clue as to what he’s doing and the quintessential hback type TE who actually knows how to play the position can’t.
Stephens is a tweener. He can run plays that a normal TE can not. Just like Stephens will most likely not be a good in-line blocker.
Lol, me too
He played 2 seasons here in Louisiana… he can’t catch either unless the ball is perfectly located. Couldn’t get on the field at TCU with their spread offense because of drops!
You know how many training camp and preseason heroes we've had around here on all sides of the ball that don't even make the 53 man roster that barely even make the practice squad injury or not you guys have this guy as your pet cat and we have 7 tight ends to choose from he's gonna have a hard time making this roster I said it and I'm gonna stand by it hey if I'm wrong I'm wrong but who cares we're talking about a dude 5th or 6th on the depth chart... I mean we heard about all those wide receivers last year in training camp some of them that have been invited back about how they should beat out tober and how Gallup should be cut because all these dudes and preseason look so good and none of them seen a single snap not one of them I'm talking about all the guys people were talking about this very thing about about how impressive they were in preseason... That is why it's called preseason most of the teams are not running actual schemes they're not playing against better talent and then you have to add in there's a numbers game on how many of each position you could put on your team and some are gonna run long some are gonna run short and I have a feeling that tight end is gonna run short this year because we're gonna need help at other positions that are more dire..
Sorry I'm being honest about your pet cat but move on this dude is a training camp hero we've had guys like him like Rico and others and a bunch of wide receivers from last year's hell there was some of those Hard Knocks guys like what was his name karma everyone thought was gonna make the team as a great pass rusher it never happened so good I'm glad you loved the guy I'll keep an eye on it for him but I have a feeling he's not gonna make the team... It's a numbers game and we're gonna go short at some positions long at others and I believe tight end are gonna lose a lot of the low hanging fruit over the numbers game...
There’s no telling how he’ll do this year. Just saying he did well last year. Maybe he isn’t the same after injury but he has just as much of a chance as any tight end besides Ferguson and Schoonmaker. I really like Stephens and Spann-Ford but idk if the Cowboys will carry four tight ends and a fullback also.
Dude, shuddup.
Rumor was he was about to take Hendershot’s job if he kept playing like that in preseason. Sucks that the injury took him out. Hopefully can come back.
Interesting athlete.
It's all about probability and statistics.
