Last year around this time, it looked like the Detroit Lions had finally turned around their tight end position after years of struggling to find a solution. They had spent their first-round pick on T.J. Hockenson, and thrown a lot of money at arguably the best tight end in free agency: Jesse James.
The two, in theory, would combine to be a pretty solid force in Detroit and maybe even bring back into style the two-tight end formation that found so much success in New England a few years back.
But things didn’t exactly turn out that way.