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Well it didn't make sense to me when Witten was not even 31 yet when Escobar was drafted. Witten has been very durable missing only one game his entire career and TE's can play effectively into their mid to late 30's. I gave a very thorough explanation as to why the pick didn't make sense and I'm not going to waste my time arguing it any further.
Fasano graded out to be the best blocking TE in the draft which is why the Cowboys drafted him and although he reminded Parcells of Mark Bavaro his primary job was to block in a 2 TE offense for Bledsoe. Like I said when Bledsoe was benched in favor of Romo Fasano became expendable which is why he was traded after only 2 seasons and the Cowboys burned another #2 on Bennett who they saw as a better pass receiver. I'm not going to continue arguing this any further.
A player doesn't have to have the same injury repeatedly to be injury prone. A variety of injuries that keep happening makes a player injury prone. That's my opinion and if you don't agree fine.
sorry. we agree to disagree. I go back to the comments that he brass was concerned about witten and wanted to draft his replacement and thus their pick of escobar. again, as I have said repeatedly...if the choice was between TE & RB, taking a TE made sense. if its between TE, and other positions, I would say there were several other higher priority positions we could have drafted.
regarding your comment on injury...is sean lee injury prone? probably. is murray injury prone? probably not. is miles Austin injury prone? yes. I think it depends. its not a hard and fast rule how we label someone.