When the Atlanta Falcons made Kyle Pitts the highest drafted tight end in NFL history, the seed of hope was planted firmly and emphatically. That seed grew into an raging forest of immediate expectations, which did not seem completely fair to a 20-year-old (he’s since turned 21) who was just coming into the NFL.
The season is not even at its halfway mark, and it seems that Pitts has already had the NFL game slow down for him, and much more quickly than I could have reasonably expected.
Pitts was called to the front lines of Matt Ryan’s aerial hierarchy in Week 5 against the New York Jets, when Calvin Ridley and Russell Gage were unable to make the trip to London, and he vehemently answered that call by dismantling New York’s secondary to the tune of nine catches for 119 receiving yards and a touchdown.