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New TE... Old one was broken
http://www.nfl.com/draft/2013/profil...lce?id=2540258
OVERVIEW In high school, Kelce was a three sport star, but his best sport was always football. He was a three-year letter winner at quarterback, and earned All-Lake Erie League honors after totaling 2,539 yards of total offense and 31 total touchdowns as a senior. Kelce’s uncle Don Blalock played football at Purdue and grandfather Don Blalock played football at Ohio. Travis is the younger brother of former Cincinnati Bearcats and current Philadelphia Eagles center Jason Kelce. In his first year on campus, Travis redshirted. In his redshirt freshman year, Kelce participated in 11 games as the tight end. He caught one pass for three yards. Kelce also played some quarterback, strictly in a Wildcat role. He logged eight carries for 47 yards and two touchdowns. Kelce did not play in 2010, as he was suspended for a violation of team rules. Upon his return in 2011, Kelce caught 13 passes for 150 yards and two touchdowns. In his senior season, Kelce put himself on the NFL prospect map, as he caught 45 passes for 722 yards and eight touchdowns. He was selected to the All-Big East first team for his play. ANALYSIS STRENGTHS Kelce has an ideal tight end frame. Athletic for his size, with great strength, and the ability to stretch the field vertically. Very physical run blocker, generates power from the lower half, and will move defenders off the ball. Plays with leverage. Wide catching radius, can adjust and make the difficult catch. Tough to bring down after the catch. Light feet, and has lined up in numerous different positions. WEAKNESSES Suspended for an entire season for violating team rules. Only one season of production. Doesn't have blazing speed. Not a tremendously explosive athlete. Doesn't come out of his breaks all that well. NFL COMPARISON Rob Gronkowski BOTTOM LINE Kelce has been a tremendous run blocker throughout his career for the Bearcats, but really elevated his game as a receiver in his senior season. He isn't a tremendous athlete, but he does a lot of things very well. It's a deep tight end class, but Kelce's play suggests that he should be highly sought after. |
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Just as ridiculous, maybe more so, is his catching up to and passing Jerry Rice records… as a freaking tight end. Just unreal.
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Pete straight up butt ****ed almost everyone in the first several pages of this thread.
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And here's a fun fact to throw around at your Super Bowl party -
When we drafted Kelce and basically redshirted him his rookie year with the microfracture surgery, Patrick Mahomes was........a junior in high school. How much a decade changes things. I'll go out on a limb and say neither of those guys would have thought in their wildest dreams in 2013 that they'd be where they are in 2024. |
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Would an idiot do that?
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They made it look easy, but in that respect I can see why they went more conservative in the 2nd half when they didn't need the points.
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IF YA WANNA BE A ****IN DICK ABOUT IT
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Free DeBerg. What even was the reason for his ban?
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Great breakdown of the back shoulder TD here. |
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WOW
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I saw it was brought up about Travis Kelce and the possibility of him breaking Jerry Rice's playoff receiving records and had a few things to say.
He's already broken his post season receptions record and by the time he is done playing that might be one of those untouchable records. Kelce has 152 and the next closes active player is Tyreek with 96. Kelce has a chance to break 200 depending on how long he plays. He's 436 yards away from passing Rice in post season receiving yards. It's possible by the end of next year's post season that he has eclipsed that record as well, which I would call an untouchable record. He's only 4 TDs away from passing Rice's post season TD record which he should break by the end of next year's playoffs. Rice has 22 TDs and Kelce is at 19. The next closes active player is Davante Adams with 8. I'd say that's another one of the unbreakable records if he gets it. He's the greatest TE of all time and would quite possibly be a top 3-5 WR of all time. |
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4 TD's
436 yards 1 100 yard playoff game He's so close to passing Jerry Rice. He got receptions this year and might get the most 100+ yard receiving games in postseason history (9). I think Kelce will break those records next year
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Man those first few pages are unfortunate
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Imagine how crazy we all would've looked at someone who said, while we bemoaned losing Tony Gonzalez, "oh don't worry, you'll soon get a new TE who will, in under the next two decades, but right on the doorstep of breaking all of Jerry Rice's post-season records" I may have ran as fast as I could from that crazy SOB who said that. It's truly amazing. |
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